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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
– The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
– Korean War: Operation Ripper – United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
– Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
– Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
– The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum.
– The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition – a gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
– Future Hall of Famer Willie Mays was called up by the New York Giants from their farm team Minneapolis Millers. We went 0-5 in his first major league game.
– British radio comedy programme The Goon Show was broadcast on BBC for the first time.
– The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
Who Were Born On ?
– M.L. Carr, basketball player and coach
– Randy California, American guitarist (Spirit) (d. 1997)
– Pete Haycock, English guitarist and composer
– Gérard Jugnot, French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer
– Lalla Ward, British actress
– Jimi Jamison, American singer (Survivor)
– Pete Carroll, American football coach
– David J. Halberstam, American radio executive
– Vassilis Leventis, Greek politician
– Pini Gershon, Israeli basketball coach