States begins operation in New York City. Kamchatka opens to Russian civilian visitors. Richard C. Duncan introduces the Olduvai theory, about the collapse of industrial civilization. The global concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere reaches 350 parts per million by volume. Walmart posts revenues and profits triple its 1986 figures and rivals Kmart and Sears in importance in the American market. The Breguet Alizé propeller-driven anti-submarine planes are retired from active carrier service in the French Navy. N.W.A are the first gangsta rap group to sell 1,000,000 copies of an album with their controversial 1988 debut album Straight Outta Compton. Births January January 1 – Adèle Haenel, French actress January 3 – Kōhei Uchimura, Japanese gymnast January 4 Labrinth, British urban and hip-hop musician Julius Yego, Kenyan javelin thrower January 5 – Eduardo Escobar, Venezuela baseball player January 6 Andy Carroll, English footballer Nicky Romero, Dutch DJ January 9 Michael Beasley, American basketball player Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian-born Canadian actress Lupita González, Mexican racewalker January 10 Emily Meade, American actress Sarah Michel, French basketball player Heo Sol-ji, South Korean singer Zuria Vega, Mexican actress and singer January 11 – Naif Hazazi, Saudi footballer January 12 Arci Muñoz, Filipina actress and model Axel Witsel, Belgian footballer January 14 – Frankie Bridge, English singer January 15 Ryan Corr, Australian actor Nicole Ross, American Olympic foil fencer Keiffer Hubbell, American ice dancer January 16 – Yvonne Zima, American actress January 19 Thiago Lacerda, Brazilian actor Kelly Marie Tran, American actress Yani Tseng, Taiwanese golfer January 20 – Gonzalo Escobar, Ecuadorian tennis player January 21 Murilo de Almeida, Brazilian-East Timorese footballer Doğuş Balbay, Turkish basketball player Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Armenian footballer Zhang Shuai, Chinese tennis player January 24 – Gong Lijiao, Chinese shot putter January 27 Daisy Lowe, British model Ricky van Wolfswinkel, Dutch footballer January 28 – Bruno Massot, French-born German pair skater January 30 – Lee Gun-woo, South Korean singer January 31 – Jessa Zaragoza, Filipina singer, actress and businesswoman February February 1 – Sara Jacobs, American politician February 2 – Ivan Perišić, Croatian footballer February 3 – Vania King, American tennis player February 4 Nkosi Johnson, South African AIDS awareness campaigner (d. 2001) Larissa Ramos, Brazilian beauty pageant winner February 5 – Jeremy Sumpter, American actor February 7 Neil Taylor, Welsh footballer Isaiah Thomas, American basketball player Elia Viviani, Italian track cyclist February 9 Maxime Dufour-Lapointe, Canadian freestyle skier Wu Chia-ching, Taiwanese