New Orleans Stunned: Tragic Attack Claims Fourteen Lives
The truck hit the crowd at 3:15 in the morning on Bourbon Street. Fourteen dead. Fifty-seven wounded. The confetti from New Year's Day 2025's midnight countdown was still scattered across the pavement when the first responders arrived. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old U.S. Army veteran from Houston, drove a rented Ford pickup into the packed French Quarter celebration at full speed and then opened fire on responding police officers before they shot him dead. ISIS flag on the trailer hitch. The FBI found improvised explosive devices planted nearby that hadn't detonated. Bourbon Street had been protected by permanent steel bollards for years, but the city removed them months earlier for a construction project and put up temporary plastic barriers that buckled on impact. And it became the deadliest terror attack on American soil since the Pulse nightclub shooting nine years earlier. The Sugar Bowl got pushed back a day. The confetti was still on the ground.
January 1, 2025
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What Else Happened on January 1
Roman consuls began their year in office on January 1 for the first time in 153 BC. Before that, they'd taken power on March 15. The change happened because Rom…
The Julian calendar takes effect as the civil calendar of the Roman Empire, establishing January 1 as the new date of the new year. That was -45.
The Roman Senate posthumously deifies Julius Caesar. That was -42.
The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor. That was 69.
January 1, 153. Roman consuls begin their year in office.
The Senate chooses Pertinax against his will to succeed Commodus as Roman emperor. That was 193.
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