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Historical Event(s)
– Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
– Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rat in Chinese astrology.
– Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
– Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
– Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces.
– Munich Massacre: 9 Israel athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian “Black September” terrorist group died (as did a German policeman) at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt. 2 other Israeli athletes are slain in the initial attack the previous day.
– The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system has its opening day of passenger service.
– Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ends after five months.
– Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
Who Were Born On ?
– Mark Owen, English pop singer
– Large Professor, American hip hop artist
– Mili Avital, Israeli-American actress
– Jill Scott, American soul singer
– Jason Varitek, American baseball player
– Shinjiro Otani, Japanese professional wrestler
– Yu Jae-seok, South Korean entertainer
– Elizabeth Wolfgramm, American singer (The Jets)
– Matt Keeslar, American actor