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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Snake in Chinese astrology.
– The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
– A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tokyo, Japan killing 129.
– Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid.
– LT No Kum-Sok a North Korean pilot defected to South Korea and is associated with Operation Moolah.
– British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
– The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
– The British Natural History Museum announces that the “Piltdown Man” skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
– Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
Who Were Born On ?
– Morris Gleitzman, British-Australian children’s author
– Dennis Cooper, American author
– Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
– Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (d. 1995)
– Louie Anderson, American comedian
– Merrill Osmond, American musician (The Osmonds)
– Alfred Molina, London-born Spanish-Italian actor
– Linda Lingle, 6th Governor of Hawaii
– Dave Evans, Australian singer (AC/DC)
– Ted Petty, American professional wrestler (d. 2002)