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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
– The publication of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique reawakens the Feminist Movement in the United States as women’s organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.
– The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
– A day after South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem announced the Joint Communique to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed.
– Syncom 2, the world’s first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
– The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty.
– An explosion at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum (now Pepsi Coliseum) in Indianapolis kills 74 people during an ice skating show. The explosion also injures 400. A faulty propane tank connection in a concession stand is blamed.
– President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
– Instant replay makes its debut during an Army–Navy game.
– The Central African Federation officially collapses and splits into Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.
Who Were Born On ?
– Tony Halme, Finnish boxer and politician (d. 2010)
– Xuxa, Brazilian television personality
– Gilad Atzmon, Israeli-born British jazz saxophonist and political activist
– Dizzy Reed, American keyboardist (Guns N' Roses)
– Richard Garfield, American game designer
– Malcolm Gladwell, Canadian journalist and author
– Cynthia Gibb, American actress
– Helen Slater, American actress