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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rat in Chinese astrology.
– The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, 6 Cal.3d 628 invalidates the state’s death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.
– The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
– Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashed near Kalba in the United Arab Emirates. All 112 passengers and crew were killed.
– Seventy-four nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons.
– In the early morning hours a fire broke out at the Sunshine mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, ID, killing 91 workers.
– In Tel Aviv, Israel members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
– Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
– The Troubles: In Belfast, British Army snipers shoot five civilians dead in the Springhill Massacre.
– In Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.
Who Were Born On ?
– Atoosa Rubenstein, Iranian-born American magazine editor
– Spencer Howson, Australian broadcaster
– Jill Scott, American soul singer
– Patsy Palmer, British actress
– Tilo Wolff, German musician (Lacrimosa)
– Tomokazu Seki, Japanese voice actor
– Ko So-young, South Korean actress
– Jun Lana, Filipino playwright and screenwriter
– Miranda Hart, British comedienne
– Željko Kalac, Australian footballer