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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.
– 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.
– Dezik (Дезик) and Tsygan (Цыган, “Gypsy”) are the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
– The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
– Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducts the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first two oral contraceptives.
– The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
– The “Johnny Bright Incident” occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma
– Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.
Who Were Born On ?
– Patrick Bergin, Irish actor
– Mike D'Antoni, American professional basketball coach
– Vance A. Larson, American artist (d. 2000)
– Roberto Durán, Panamanian boxer
– Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
– Dean Pitchford, American songwriter, filmmaker and novelist
– Marcel Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player
– Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese composer
– Peter Suber, American academic
– Jan Eggum, Norwegian singer and songwriter