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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Snake in Chinese astrology.
– Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.
– The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
– The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft plane is unveiled.
– United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to “forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship” and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.
– The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 begins as Pakistani soldiers cross the Line of Control dressed as locals.
– Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
– In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1 on board, becoming the third country to enter outer space.
– Pakistan’s Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level.
– The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist People’s Organisation is founded in Taiz
Who Were Born On ?
– Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer
– Julie Warner, American actress
– Park Gok-ji, South Korean film editor
– Raí, Brazilian footballer
– Stu Grimson, Canadian ice hockey player
– Koji Kikkawa, Japanese singer
– Caryn Mower, American actress, stuntwoman and former professional wrestler
– Guy Picciotto, American musician (Rites of Spring, Fugazi)
– Craig Biggio, American baseball player
– Chris Jones, American baseball player