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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.
– Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
– Soviet Union regional elections, 1955.
– The EOKA rebellion against The British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of obtaining the desired unification (“enosis”) with Greece.
– The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
– The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
– The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC.
– The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
– National Review publishes its first issue.
– NORAD Tracks Santa for the first time in what will become an annual Christmas Eve tradition.
Who Were Born On ?
– Palmolive, British musician (The Slits, The Raincoats)
– Jim Cramer, American television personality
– Lisa Jane Persky, American actress
– Stephen Pewsey, English historian
– Will Shetterly, American writer
– Kenny Kirkland, piano & keyboard player, member of Buckshot LeFonque (d. 1998)
– Benoît Ferreux, French actor
– Dave Alvin, American songwriter and guitarist
– Otis Birdsong, American basketball player
– Grand L. Bush, American actor