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31
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- A
fire at a
nightclub in
Bangkok,
Thailand kills 61 people and injures 212.
[1]
-
Slovakia
adopts the
euro and becomes the 16th member of the
eurozone.
[2]
-
Sri Lanka's military
seizes control of the
Tamil Tiger's de facto capital of
Kilinochchi.
[3]
-
John Atta Mills of the
National Democratic Congress is
elected
President of
Ghana.
[4]
- Following a week of
Israeli air attacks against
Hamas in
Gaza, Israeli ground forces
enter Gaza.
[5]
- In the first running outside of
Europe and
Africa, the
Dakar Rally begins in
Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
[6]
-
Russian
state-controlled supplier
Gazprom cuts off
gas deliveries to Ukraine, with several
European countries reporting a fall in supplies.
[7]
-
Israeli and
Hamas forces
resume hostilities in
Gaza after a brief respite to allow
humanitarian aid to enter the area.
[8]
- A 6.1
Mw
earthquake kills 15 people and injures dozens more in
Costa Rica.
[9]
- The
66th Golden Globe Awards takes place in
Beverly Hills,
California, with
Slumdog Millionaire winning four awards including best picture.
[10]
-
Flooding in
Fiji kills 8 people and displaces 6,000.
[11]
-
Indonesian
ferry
MV Teratai Prima capsizes and sinks off
Sulawesi,
Indonesia, killing more than 200 people.
[12]
-
China
surpasses
Germany to become the
third largest economy, based on revised 2007
GDP figures.
[13]
- An
Airbus A330,
US Airways Flight 1549, flying from
LaGuardia Airport,
New York City to
Charlotte/Douglas International Airport, makes an
emergency landing in the
Hudson River, following a
bird strike with geese.
[14]
-
Israeli
Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert declares a unilateral ceasefire in
the conflict between Israel and
Hamas.
[15]
-
Computer worm
Conficker infects nearly 9 million
Microsoft Windows-based
personal computers.
[16]
- Seven
French
soldiers are
killed and one is reported missing following a
helicopter crash off the
Gabonese coast.
[17]
-
Barack Obama is
inaugurated as the 44th
President of the United States.
[18]
- The
President of Ireland
Mary McAleese signs
emergency legislation confirming the
nationalisation of
Anglo Irish Bank.
[19]
- Three people are stabbed to death and ten more are injured after an
attack at a
crèche in
Dendermonde,
Belgium.
[20]
- Rebel leader
Laurent Nkunda is
arrested by the
Rwandan
military on its country's border with the
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
[21]
-
Japan launches the world's first
greenhouse-gas-monitoring
satellite
Ibuki from the
Tanegashima Space Center.
[22]
-
Pope Benedict XVI rescinds the
excommunications of
four bishops
consecrated in 1988 by
French
Archbishop
Marcel Lefebvre.
[23]
- Three people are killed and one is seriously injured following an
avalanche on
Buachaille Etive Mòr in the
Scottish Highlands.
[24]
- A
storm across
France and
Spain kills 15 people with
hurricane-force winds.
[25]
- In an
ongoing civil war,
Sri Lankan army
captures
Mullaitivu, the last stronghold of
Tamil Tigers.
[26]
- The
coalition government of
Iceland under
Prime Minister
Geir Haarde (pictured) collapses amid
escalating protests against its handling of the country's
financial crisis.
[27]
- The number of unique
internet users in a single month
reaches 1 billion for December 2008.
[28]
- A set of human
octuplets are
born in
Bellflower,
United States.
[29]
- The
Illinois
Senate votes unanimously to
remove
Governor
Rod Blagojevich from office and bar him from holding future office in the state.
[30]
- At least 68 people are killed in anti-government
protests in
Madagascar.
[31]
- A
massive fire at a supermarket in downtown
Nairobi,
Kenya kills at least 14 people.
[32]
- A
heat wave affects southeastern
Australia, killing at least 22 people and blasting
Adelaide and
Melbourne with temperatures above 40 °C (104 °F).
[33]
- After an
indirect election held in
Djibouti,
Sharif Ahmed is
elected
President of
Somalia.
[34]
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