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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
– With the success of a nuclear test codenamed “Gerboise Bleue”, France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
– The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world’s first satellite navigation system.
– Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra.
– The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 e6acre of land undervalued at 4 cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
– Independence of Somalia.
– The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
– Chad declares independence.
– Mali and Senegal join the United Nations.
Who Were Born On ?
– Hector Calma, Filipino basketball player
– Peter Sterling, Australian rugby league footballer
– Conway Savage, piano, organ, backing vocalist (Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds)
– Greg Thomas, England cricketer
– Ed Solomon, American screenwriter
– Sonia Benezra, Canadian television host
– Barron Lerner, American physician and historian
– Ralf Minge, German footballer
– Tilda Swinton, English actress
– Donald Nally, American choral conductor