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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Snake in Chinese astrology.
– World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
– In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people.
– At California’s March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
– Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
– Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
– World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
– World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.
– World War II: Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army.
– Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces.
Who Were Born On ?
– Bobby Moore, English footballer (d. 1993)
– Pat Choate, American economist
– Mahmoud Ahmed, Ethiopian singer
– Grace Zabriskie, American actress
– Barbet Schroeder, Swiss film director
– Ben L. Jones, American actor, politician and essayist
– Tadao Ando, Japanese architect
– Tom Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival) (d. 1990)
– Rogier van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (d. 1988)