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Historical Event(s)
– World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
– World War II: The VIII Bomber Command dispatched ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-Boat construction yards at Wilhemshafen, Germany. The first American bombing attack on Germany.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Sheep in Chinese astrology.
– World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
– Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Berezhany, western Ukraine. 1,180 Jews are led to the city’s old Jewish graveyard and shot.
– The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
– 98 American POW’s executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
– Prisoners at the Nazi German Sobibor extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans, killing eleven SS guards, and wounding many more. About 300 of the Sobibor Camp’s 600 prisoners escape, and about 50 of these survive the end of the war.
– World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
– World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jarl Alfredius, Swedish news anchor (d. 2009)
– Paul Freeman, British actor
– Serge Lama, French singer
– Tim Hunt, British biochemist, Nobel laureate
– Morten Lauridsen, American composer
– Rashid Sunyaev, Russian physicist
– Chris White, British musician (The Zombies)
– Jon Postel, American computer scientist (d. 1998)
– Stefania Toczyska, Polish mezzo-soprano
– Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist