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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 Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
– The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
– In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to be become President.
– Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
– In an unsuccessful coup d'état attempt, the Royal Moroccan Air Force fires upon Hassan II of Morocco’s plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.
– Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos announces over television and radio the implementation of martial law.
– Last executions in Paris, of the Clairvaux Mutineers, Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet, guillotined at La Sante Prison. (Bontems had been found innocent of murder by the court, but as Buffet’s accomplice is condemned to death anyway.) The chief executioner is Andre Obrecht.
– Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game.
– An Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed Tristar) crashes on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jay Powell, baseball player
– Manon Rhéaume, Canadian female ice hockey player
– Georgios Georgiadis, Greek footballer
– Darren McCarty, Canadian ice hockey player
– Derek Mears, American actor
– Közi, Japanese visual kei artist
– Kaiō Hiroyuki, Japanese sumo wrestler
– Tanya Reid, Canadian actress
– Chihiro Yonekura, Japanese singer
– Roberto Palacios, Peruvian footballer