{"id":23375,"date":"2024-01-01T04:14:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T22:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=23375"},"modified":"2024-01-03T14:50:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T09:20:52","slug":"history-of-1-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-1-january\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 1 January"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>1992 &#8211; The ESPN Radio Network was officially launched.<\/li>\r\n<li>1992 &#8211; In Kuala, Lumpur, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Petronas Towers took place.<\/li>\r\n<li>1993 &#8211; Czechoslovakia split into two separate states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The peaceful division had been engineered in 1992.<\/li>\r\n<li>1994 &#8211; Bill Gates, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft and Melinda French were married.<\/li>\r\n<li>1994 &#8211; The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect.<\/li>\r\n<li>1995 &#8211; Frederick West, an alleged killer of 12 women and girls, was found hanged in his jail cell in Winston Green prison, in Birmingham. West had been under almost continuous watch since his arrest in 1994, but security had reportedly been relaxed in the months preceding the apparent suicide.<\/li>\r\n<li>1995 &#8211; The World Trade Organization came into existence. The group of 125 nations monitors global trade.<\/li>\r\n<li>1998 &#8211; A new anti-smoking law went into effect in\u00a0California. The law prohibiting people from lighting up in bars.<\/li>\r\n<li>1999 &#8211; The euro became currency for 11 Member States of the European Union. Coins and notes were not available until January 1, 2002.<\/li>\r\n<li>1999 &#8211; In\u00a0California, a law went into effect that defined &#8220;invasion of privacy as trespassing with the intent to capture audio or video images of a celebrity or crime victim engaging in a personal of family activity.&#8221;<\/li>\r\n<li>2001 &#8211; The &#8220;Texas 7,&#8221; rented space in an RV park in Woodland Park,\u00a0CO.<\/li>\r\n<li>2007 &#8211; Binney &amp; Smith Company became Crayola LLC under its parent company Hallmark.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>2009 \u2013 Sixty-six people die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand.<\/li>\r\n<li>2010 \u2013 A suicide car bomber detonates at a volleyball tournament in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan, killing 105 and injuring 100 more.<\/li>\r\n<li>2011 \u2013 A bomb explodes as Coptic Christians in Alexandria, Egypt, leave a new year service, killing 23 people.<\/li>\r\n<li>2011 \u2013\u00a0Estonia\u00a0officially adopts the Euro currency and becomes the 17th\u00a0Eurozone country.<\/li>\r\n<li>2013\u00a0\u2013 At least 60 people are killed and 200 injured in a\u00a0stampede\u00a0after celebrations at\u00a0F\u00e9lix Houphou\u00ebt-Boigny Stadium\u00a0in\u00a0Abidjan,\u00a0Ivory Coast.<\/li>\r\n<li>2015 \u2013 The Eurasian Economic Union comes into effect, creating a political and economic union between Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan<\/li>\r\n<li>2017 \u2013 An attack on a nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, during New Year&#8217;s celebrations, kills at least 39 people and injures more than 60 others<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>1981 \u2013 Zsolt Baumgartner, Hungarian racing driver<\/li>\r\n<li>1981 \u2013 Mladen Petri\u0107, Croatian footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1982 \u2013 David Nalbandian, Argentinian tennis player<\/li>\r\n<li>1982 \u2013 Egidio Ar\u00e9valo R\u00edos, Uruguayan footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1983\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Melaine Walker, Jamaican hurdler<\/li>\r\n<li>1983 \u2013 Park Sung-hyun, South Korean archer<\/li>\r\n<li>1983 \u2013 Calum Davenport, English footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1984 \u2013 Paolo Guerrero, Peruvian footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Michael Witt, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\r\n<li>1985\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Tiago Splitter, Brazilian basketball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1986\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Pablo Cuevas, Uruguayan tennis player<\/li>\r\n<li>1986 \u2013\u00a0Ramses Barden, American football player<\/li>\r\n<li>1986 \u2013 Colin Morgan, Northern Irish actor<\/li>\r\n<li>1987 \u2013 Meryl Davis, American ice dancer<\/li>\r\n<li>1987 \u2013 Patric H\u00f6rnqvist, Swedish ice hockey player<\/li>\r\n<li>1988 \u2013 Marcel Gecov, Czech footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1989\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jason Pierre-Paul, American football player<\/li>\r\n<li>1990 \u2013 Julia Glushko, Israeli tennis player<\/li>\r\n<li>1991\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Darius Slay, American football player<\/li>\r\n<li>1991 \u2013 Xavier Su&#8217;a-Filo, American football player<\/li>\r\n<li>1992 \u2013 Nathaniel Peteru, New Zealand rugby league player<\/li>\r\n<li>1994 \u2013 Brendan Elliot, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\r\n<li>1997 \u2013 Keegan Hipgrave, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\r\n<li>1998 \u2013 Patrick Carrigan, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1992 &#8211; The ESPN Radio Network was officially launched. 1992 &#8211; In Kuala, Lumpur, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Petronas Towers took place. 1993 &#8211; Czechoslovakia split into two separate states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. 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