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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rooster in Chinese astrology.
– Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
– Toronto‘s CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada’s first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n’Roll music format.
– Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada’s first woman Cabinet Minister.
– John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles are introduced to each other when Lennon’s band the Quarrymen performs at the St. Peter’s Church Hall fête in Woolton.
– The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
– American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage “baby-boomers” by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
– The USSR announces the successful test of an ICBM – a “super long distance intercontinental multistage ballistic rocket . . . a few days ago,” according to the Soviet news agency, ITAR-TASS.
– 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
– Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene.
Who Were Born On ?
– Mike Bossy, Canadian ice hockey player
– Cindy Wilson, American singer (The B-52's)
– Matt Knudsen, American actor
– Joaquim de Almeida, Portuguese-American actor
– Pontso S.M. Sekatle, Lesotho academic and politician
– John Treacy, Irish athlete
– Mike Skinner, American racecar driver
– Michael Rose, Jamaican musician (Black Uhuru)
– Shirley Phelps-Roper, American attorney
– John Ashton, English guitarist (The Psychedelic Furs)