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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Pig in Chinese astrology.
– The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
– The State Council of the People’s Republic of China dissolves the Government of Tibet.
– The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
– The 1st Grammy Awards are held.
– SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours.
– Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
– Nearly 5000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshū as the result of a typhoon.
– Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
– General Charles de Gaulle, President of France, declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for a “Europe, ”from the Atlantic to the Urals.\"
Who Were Born On ?
– Andy Andrews, American tennis player
– Kathy Sledge, American singer
– Gord Hampson, Canadian ice hockey player
– Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (d. 2005)
– Terry Francona, American baseball manager
– Alan Wilder, British musician (Depeche Mode and Recoil)
– Amanda Pays, English actress
– Ricky Pierce, American basketball player
– Juan Croucier, American musician
– Bob Paris, American bodybuilder and gay rights advocate