Today in History for January 2000
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Historical Events
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1st - Gisbourne, New Zealand population 32,754 is first city in the world to welcome in the new millenium
13th - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates steps aside as chief executive and promotes company president Steve Ballmer to the position
14th - A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
18th - The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.
30th - Super Bowl XXXIV: St. Louis Rams beat Tennessee Titans, 23-16 at the Georgia Dome Atlanta MVP: Kurt Warner, St. Louis, QB
30th - Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
31st - Alaska Airlines flight 261 MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 persons aboard.
Famous Birthdays
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4th - Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, American actress
Famous Deaths
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1st - Colin Vaughan, Australian political journalist (b. 1931)
2nd - Patrick O'Brian, British novelist (b. 1914)
2nd - Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., U.S. admiral (b. 1920)
2nd - Nat Adderley, American musician and composer (b. 1931)
4th - Tom Fears, American football player (b. 1922)
6th - Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
7th - Gary Albright, American professional wrestler (b. 1963)
8th - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (b. 1918)
9th - Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909)
10th - Sam Jaffe, American producer (b. 1901)
11th - Betty Archdale, Anglo-Australian educationalist and cricketer (b. 1907)
11th - Ivan Combe, American inventor (b. 1911)
11th - Bob Lemon, American baseball player (b. 1920)
12th - Marc Davis, American animator (b. 1913)
12th - Bobby Phills, American basketball player (b. 1969)
15th - Georges-Henri Lévesque, Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist (b. 1903)
15th - Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916)
15th - Željko Ražnatović, aka Arkan, Serbian paramilitary leader (b. 1952)
16th - Will "Dub" Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1928)
16th - John Morris Rankin, musical entertainer (b. 1959)
17th - Philip Jones, British trumpeter (b. 1928)
18th - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)
19th - Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
19th - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born actress (b. 1913)
22nd - Craig Claiborne, American writer and editor (b. 1920)
22nd - Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (Kamouraska) (b. 1916)
24th - Bobby Duncum, Jr., American professional wrestler (b. 1965)
26th - Don Budge, American tennis player (b. 1915)
26th - Kathleen Hale, British author (b. 1898)
26th - A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born author (b. 1912)
27th - Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist (b. 1930)
31st - Gil Kane, Latvian-born comic book writer (b. 1926)
