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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
– The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
– Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
– The Monterey Pop Festival begins
– Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
– Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
– The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
– A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
– The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
– Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, US President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, “We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking..We are making progress.”
Who Were Born On ?
– Johan Laats, Belgian judoka
– Jason Cooper, English musician (The Cure)
– Joe McKinney, Irish actor
– Pamela Anderson, Canadian model
– Rebekah Del Rio, Latin American singer/songwriter
– Tim Wright, Welsh composer
– Ricky Bell, American singer (New Edition, Bell Biv DeVoe)
– Faith Hill, American singer
– David Starr, American race car driver
– Sylvain Lefebvre, Canadian ice hockey player