☠Elias al-Zayek assassinated

On 19 January 1990 Elias al-Zayek, a Kataeb cadre and an opponent of Samir Geagea's control of the Lebanese Forces, was shot dead by gunmen in Byblos days before the outbreak of the War of Elimination; the Lebanese Forces were accused of the operation, and it was one of the three charges on which Geagea was convicted after his arrest in 1994.