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Historical Event(s)
– Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
– China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
– U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
– The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
– Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Thirty-one students are arrested, and the Free Speech Movement is born.
– Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
– Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe
– John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the twentieth century to become the 35th president of the United States.
– 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.
Who Were Born On ?
– Greg Louganis, American diver
– Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish author (d. 2007)
– Marco Pennette, American television producer
– Vince Clarke, British songwriter (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure)
– Mark Burnett, English-born television producer
– Conway Savage, piano, organ, backing vocalist (Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds)
– Stephan Eicher, Swiss singer
– Karch Kiraly, American volleyball player
– Teodora Ungureanu, Romanian gymnast and Olympic medalist
– Howard Johnson, American baseball player