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Historical Event(s)
– First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Ox in Chinese astrology.
– Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
– A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
– At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland.
– The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
– In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
– Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada’s largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
– The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
– Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
Who Were Born On ?
– Rakesh Sharma, first Indian and 138th person to visit space
– Peter Agre, American biologist, Nobel laureate
– Shaukat Aziz, Pakistani statesman
– Liza Frulla, Quebec politician
– Paloma Picasso daughter of artist Pablo Picasso
– Massimo D'Alema, 76th Prime Minister of Italy
– Norman Featherstone, South African cricketer
– Armand Assante, American actor
– Vasilios Magginas, Greek politician
– Nancy Kyes, American actress