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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rooster in Chinese astrology.
– World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
– World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany.
– The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
– World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
– World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
– Manhattan Project: the Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
– Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
– The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.
Who Were Born On ?
– Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997)
– Werner Schroeter, German film director
– Peter Gammons, American sports journalist
– Christy Moore, Irish folk artist
– John Derbyshire, British-American mathematician and political commentator
– George Pataki, American politician
– Larry Lucchino, American baseball executive
– Melba Moore, American singer
– Roberta Bondar, Canadian astronaut
– Mukhtar Altynbayev, former Kazakhstani Minister of Defense and General of the Army of Kazakhstan