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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Dog in Chinese astrology.
– Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
– The Ford Motor Company produced its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company’s founding.
– The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
– The trade mark Velcro is registered.
– The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
– Fifth Republic of France is established.
– The American Atomic Energy Commission, with supporting military units, carries out an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site, just north of Las Vegas, Nevada.
– The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago, Illinois, kills 92 children and three nuns.
– The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first expedition to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic.
Who Were Born On ?
– James J. Greco, American businessman
– Matt Frewer, American actor
– Lisa Loring, American actress
– Nik Kershaw, English musician
– Peter Altmaier, German politician
– Pierre Roland Renoir, Monaco-born Canadian painter
– Peter Fraßmann, German footballer
– Thurston Moore, American musician (Sonic Youth)
– Plamen Krastev, Bulgarian hurdler
– George Saunders, American writer