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Historical Event(s)
– Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Pig in Chinese astrology.
– The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
– Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
– Launch of the National Liberation Committee of Côte d'Ivoire in Conakry, Guinea.
– Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
– The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
– Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.
– Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
– Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”, which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology.
Who Were Born On ?
– Abdul Ahad Momand, Afghan cosmonaut
– Otis Nixon, American baseball player
– José María Cano, Spanish musician
– Nick Griffin, British politician
– Ali McMordie, Irish bassist (Stiff Little Fingers)
– Brian Williams, American news anchor
– Andrea de Cesaris, Italian racing driver
– Ruud Janssen, Dutch writer and Fluxus and mail artist
– Morten Harket, Norwegian singer (a-ha)
– Karla Faye Tucker, first woman to be executed in the United States since 1984 (d. 1998)