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Historical Event(s)
– Fulgencio Batista, dictator of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro’s forces during the Cuban Revolution.
– Separatists in the Maldives declare the establishment of the United Suvadive Republic.
– A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson and the incident becomes known as The Day the Music Died.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Pig in Chinese astrology.
– The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
– The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.
– At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a “Kitchen Debate”.
– Portugal’s state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
– The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
– General Charles de Gaulle, President of France, declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for a “Europe, ”from the Atlantic to the Urals.\"
Who Were Born On ?
– David Mills, American author
– Brian Propp, Canadian hockey player
– Neil Lomax, American football player
– Johnny Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
– Tamara Tunie, American actress
– Bob Mortimer, English comedian
– Susan Cummings, Monegasque-born American heiress and convicted murderer
– Daler Nazarov, Tajik composer and actor
– Brian P. Cleary, American Author
– Wayne Gardner, Australian racing driver