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Historical Event(s)
– BOAC Flight 781 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 explodes into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Horse in Chinese astrology.
– McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, “A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy”, produced by Fred Friendly.
– A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collided with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
– Bill Haley & His Comets release “Rock Around the Clock”, the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.
– First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
– Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany’s secret service, defects to East Germany.
– The German U-Boat U-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.
– In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village, exposing some 45,000 soldiers and 10,000 civilians to nuclear fallout.
– Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ed Schultz, American radio talk show host
– Billy Pontoni, Colombian musician
– Abdullah Atalar, Turkish scientist and academic
– Pia Zadora, American actress
– Robert P. Harrison, American thinker
– Frank Reed, American singer (The Chi-Lites)
– Sylvester Croom, American college football coach
– Ozzie Smith, American baseball player
– Gayle King, American magazine editor
– Roger Voudouris, American singer (d. 2003)