January 2006 - 21 January 2006 (Saturday)

21 January 2006 (Saturday)

  • Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova dies at 61, after a lung cancer. He was the first President of Kosovo, and the leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK).
  • The Russian choreographer Igor Moiseyev, who founded the genre of balletic folk dance back in the 1930s, celebrates his centenary with a flamboyant show in the Moscow Kremlin Palace of Congresses. (New York Times)
  • Two miners, trapped after a coal mine fire on Thursday in Melville, West Virginia, are found dead. (CNN)
  • The "River Thames whale" dies during a rescue attempt. (BBC)
  • The British government confirms and defends the practice of holding DNA samples of minors on the UK National DNA Database. (BBC)
  • Richard Blackwood officially calls a day on his limping career by making his last update on his overly cerise website. Blueyonder.co.uk

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