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Historical Event(s)
– The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short (“The Black Dahlia”) is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Pig in Chinese astrology.
– Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball’s color line.
– Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
– Thor Heyerdahl’s balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7000 km journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
– Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today.
– The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
– First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
– The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
– William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jill Eikenberry, American actress
– Mike Brant, Israeli pop singer (d. 1975)
– Clodagh Rodgers, Irish singer
– Murray Perahia, American pianist
– Richard Jenkins, American actor
– Luis Fernando Figari, Peruvian founder of Sodalitium Christianae Vitae
– Russ Abbot, British comedian
– Inky Mark, Canadian politician
– Michel Berger, French songwriter (d. 1992)
– Sergio Badilla Castillo, Chilean poet