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Historical Event(s)
– Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire 3 days earlier in Prague’s Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major protest.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
– Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
– The 385 m tall TV-mast at Emley Moor, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
– Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
– Race riots, later known as the May 13 Incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
– Melbourne-Evans collision: Off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half.
– Space Race: Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission (July 20 in North America).
– The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago, Illinois.
– The first legislation to limit aircraft noise levels at airports is introduced in U.S. Federal Air Regulation, Part 36.
Who Were Born On ?
– Nicolle Dickson, Australian actress
– Nicky Wire, British musician (Manic Street Preachers)
– Patton Oswalt, American actor and writer
– Terrence Howard, American actor
– Kevin Nalty, American YouTube personality
– Ken Jeong, American Actor
– Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater
– Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
– Johnathon Schaech, American actor
– Allison Wolfe, American musician (Bratmobile, Cold Cold Hearts, Partyline)