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Historical Event(s)
– A military coup takes place in Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso), dissolving the National Parliament and leading to a new national constitution.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
– The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557.
– President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act goes into effect the next year.
– Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
– In Cape Town, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
– The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber’s opera, Antony and Cleopatra.
– Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
– Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
– The first Gävle goat, an annual Swedish Yule Goat tradition, is first erected in Gävle.
Who Were Born On ?
– Frank Dietrich, German politician (d. 2011)
– Bebel Gilberto, Brazilian singer
– Misato Watanabe, Japanese popular music
– Christine C. Quinn, American politician
– Kensuke Sasaki, Japanese professional wrestler
– Kerry G. Johnson, African American graphic designer and caricaturist
– Toralf Arndt, German footballer
– Troy Aikman, American football player
– Patricia Kaas, French singer
– Tracy Byrd, American musician