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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Sheep in Chinese astrology.
– King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates the throne in favor of his father, King Norodom Suramarit.
– The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
– The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.
– West Germany gains full sovereignty.
– Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
– Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered.
– Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
– Juan Perón is deposed as the ruler of Argentina.
– In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
Who Were Born On ?
– Steve Javie, American professional basketball referee
– Nancy Oliver, American playwright and television writer
– Glenne Headly, American actress
– Ricky Bell, American football player (d. 1984)
– Américo Gallego, Argentine footballer
– Andrew Stevens, American actor
– Lindsey Graham, American politician
– Dariusz Lipiński, Polish politician
– Paul Greengrass, English film director
– Chuck Loeb, Contemporary Jazz guitarist