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Historical Event(s)
– Henry Lee Lucas, once listed as America’s most prolific serial killer, commits his first known murder.
– The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 m (35,798 feet) in the Pacific Ocean.
– Danny Heater sets a worldwide high school basketball scoring record when he records 135 points for Burnsville High School (West Virginia)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
– The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
– France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
– The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
– Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he quit to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration.
– Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested then deported from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.
– The farthing coin ceases to be legal tender in the United Kingdom.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jim Spivey, American track and field athlete
– Scott Pruett, American race car driver
– Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (d. 1991)
– Lola Forner, Spanish actress
– Fritz Walter, German footballer
– John Paxson, American basketball player
– Tim Brewster, American football coach
– Rob Marshall, American director
– Mark Derwin, American actor
– Steve Bruce, English footballer