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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
– All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
– Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become President of Indonesia.
– Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the Ship DSV submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
– An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2 destroying both planes during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and United States Air Force test pilot Carl Cross are both killed.
– The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
– King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
– Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA’s Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions)
– U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.
– The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
Who Were Born On ?
– Samantha Fox, English singer
– David Chalmers, Australian philosopher
– Firdous Bamji, Indian-American actor
– John Cusack, American actor
– Kristin Hersh, American singer and guitarist (Throwing Muses)
– Stephanie Wilson, American engineer and astronaut
– Steve Valentine, British actor
– Steve Atwater, American football player
– Toby Huss, American actor