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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.
– Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
– World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as “National Democrats”) and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People.
– World War II: German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk.
– World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
– World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an “unlimited national emergency”.
– World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the Athenian Acropolis, tear down the Nazi swastika.
– The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.
– World War II: a German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the USS Greer.
– World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans’ declaration of war on Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on Germany and Italy.
Who Were Born On ?
– Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese film maker
– Gregory Sierra, American actor
– Dory Funk, Jr., American professional wrestler
– Bob Smith, former American politician
– Ajit Wadekar, Indian cricketer
– Karl Barry Sharpless, American chemist, Nobel laureate
– Leonid Kizim, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2010)
– Roy Blount, Jr., American writer
– Paul Simon, American singer and musician (Simon & Garfunkel)
– Laura Antonelli, Italian actress