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Historical Event(s)
– An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
– 68% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Snake in Chinese astrology.
– James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April’s Nature (pub. April 2).
– Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
– Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.
– Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: a tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.
– The Egyptian Revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
– Andhra Pradesh attained statehood on 1 November 1953, with Kurnool as its capital.
– The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Who Were Born On ?
– Morris Titanic, Canadian ice hockey player
– Mark Weil, Uzbek theatre director (d. 2007)
– Michelle Courchesne, Quebec politician
– John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (Rush) (d. 2008)
– Olav Stedje, Norwegian singer-songwriter
– Rita Lee, American model
– Cliff Johnson, American computer game author
– Pete Falcone, American baseball player
– Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (d. 1994)
– Henning Schmitz, German musician (Kraftwerk)