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Historical Event(s)
– Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
– Ilse Koch, “The Witch of Buchenwald”, wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in West Germany.
– 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.
– The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
– Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
– The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
– British radio comedy programme The Goon Show was broadcast on BBC for the first time.
– The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company.
– Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
Who Were Born On ?
– Isabel Preysler, Philippines-born Spanish socialite
– Glenis Willmott, British politician, leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party
– Mordechai Ben David, American Yiddish singer
– James Newton Howard, American film composer
– Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
– Freddie Wadling, Swedish singer and musician (The Leather Nun, Fleshquartet)
– Jay North, American actor
– Peter Blegvad, American musician (Slapp Happy)
– Bill Handel, American radio personality
– Leszek Cichy, Polish mountaineer