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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
– An Air France Boeing 707 charter, Chateau de Sully crashes after an aborted takeoff from Paris-Orly Airport, killing 130.
– The Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test is conducted by the United States of America.
– The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
– Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution.
– First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
– Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
– Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval “quarantine” of the Communist nation.
– Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
– Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
– Jeff Van Gundy, American basketball coach
– Roberto Paci Dalò, Italian director and composer
– Michael T. Weiss, American actor
– David Bryan, American musician (Bon Jovi)
– Kevyn Aucoin, American cosmetologist (d. 2002)
– Angèle Dubeau, Canadian violinist
– Craig Ferguson, Scottish actor and comedian
– Joanne Catherall, English singer
– Jeff Bennett, American voice actor