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Historical Event(s)
– A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea in the Palomares incident.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
– The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.
– Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become President of Indonesia.
– Texas Western becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final Four with an all-black starting lineup.
– The first prominent dàzìbào during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.
– Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an “F5” on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
– The Namibian War of Independence starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe.
– Vietnam War: Binh Tai massacre
Who Were Born On ?
– Hope Sandoval, American singer and songwriter (Mazzy Star, Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions)
– Dikembe Mutombo, Democratic Republic of the Congo basketball player
– Dean Cain, American actor
– Chris Eubank, English boxer
– Eric Andolsek, American football player (d. 1992)
– Brian Kennedy, Northern Irish musician and author
– Suzanne Malveaux, American television news reporter
– Valeri Liukin, Soviet gymnast
– Toshihiro Arai, Japanese rally driver