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Historical Event(s)
– World War II: Top Ace Major Greg “Pappy” Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Monkey in Chinese astrology.
– World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
– Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
– World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
– World War II: 168 captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being “terror fliers”, arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
– Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
– World War II: Bitola Liberation Day
– World War II: Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany.
Who Were Born On ?
– David Atherton, British conductor
– Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (d. 1989)
– Peter Allen, Australian singer and actor (d. 1992)
– Stockard Channing, American actress
– Alan Parker, British film director and writer
– Bernard Cornwell, English historical novelist
– John Newcombe, Australian tennis player
– Myra Gale Brown, former wife of cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis
– Bodil Malmsten, Swedish writer
– Pierre Deligne, Belgian mathematician