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Historical Event(s)
– Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
– Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for performing espionage for the Soviet Union.
– Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
– American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
– The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
– Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
– The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
– The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
– Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
Who Were Born On ?
– Frank E. Peretti, author of Christian fiction
– Enda Kenny, Taoiseach of Ireland
– Paul Thompson, British rock drummer (Roxy Music)
– Robert P. Young, Jr., Michigan Supreme Court justice
– Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
– Piotr Pustelnik, Polish mountaineer
– Dan Fogelberg, American singer-songwriter (d. 2007)
– Norbert Hofmann, German footballer
– Tim (d. 1996) and Tom Gullikson, American tennis player brothers
– Robben Ford, American guitarist