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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Horse in Chinese astrology.
– Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio. The record still stands today.
– Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
– President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his “domino theory” speech during a news conference.
– Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
– The world’s first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
– Getúlio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
– In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges Meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap in the only documented case of a human being hit by a rock from space.
– Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute”.
– The Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands is signed.
Who Were Born On ?
– Peter Pilz, Austrian politician
– Dianne Kay, American actress
– Stephen Furst, American actor
– Greg Ginn, American guitarist (Black Flag)
– Len Davies, British pro wrestling promoter
– Steve Barton, American actor (d. 2001)
– Jeffrey Combs, American actor
– Ray Hadley, Australian radio broadcaster
– Darrell M. West, American political scientist
– John Anderson, American country music singer-songwriter