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This day in history: January 5

1. 1991

   Georgian troops attacked Tskhinvali, the South Ossetian capital, beginning the First South Ossetia War.

2. 2000

   Sri Lankan Tamil politician Kumar Ponnambalam was killed in an assassination suspected to have been sanctioned by President Chandrika Kumaratunga.

3. 2003

   The Metropolitan Police arrested six people in conjunction with an alleged terrorist plot to release ricin on the London Underground, although no toxin was found.

4. 2005

   The dwarf planet Eris was discovered by a team using images from the Samuel Oschin telescope at Palomar Observatory.

5. 2007

   The Taiwan High Speed Rail opened, connecting Taipei and Kaohsiung.

6. 2008

   Mikheil Saakashvili was decisively re-elected as President of Georgia in "the first genuinely competitive presidential election" in the history of the country.

7. 2009

   In Eng Foong Ho v Attorney-General, the Court of Appeal of Singapore held that equality before the law was satisfied by a "reasonable nexus" between state action and the object of the law.

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