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Historical Event(s)
– An avalanche on Huascaran in Peru causes 4,000 deaths.
– French President Charles De Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
– Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms’ First Piano Concerto.
– The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting concludes, among other things, that the British public did not want commercial radio broadcasting.
– An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing 113.
– Ne Win besieges and dynamites the Rangoon University Student Union building to crash the Student Movement.
– First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
– Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
– NASA Relay 1 launch, first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
Who Were Born On ?
– Chuck Palahniuk, American writer
– Al Del Greco, American football player
– John Stockton, American basketball player
– John O'Farrell, British author and satirist
– Art Alexakis, American musician
– Ian Astbury, English singer (The Cult)
– Jon Berkeley, Irish author and illustrator
– Lawrence Leritz, Broadway dancer, choreographer, producer
– Erik Thorstvedt, Norwegian footballer
– Josh Silver, American keyboardist (Type O Negative)