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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Ox in Chinese astrology.
– Operation Barrel Roll, a covert US bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
– Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
– A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
– A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
– Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on-board.
– Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the “Nixon tapes” to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.
– The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT’s alleged involvement in the September 11, 1973 coup d'état in Chile.
– Yom Kippur War ends
– Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
Who Were Born On ?
– Joanna Brodzik, Polish actress
– Alexei Kovalev, Russian ice hockey player
– Justin Thompson, American baseball player
– Beverley Knight, English singer
– Sun Wen, Chinese footballer
– Voshon Lenard, American basketball player
– Bryant Reeves, American basketball player
– Danny Graves, American baseball player
– Nick Colgan, Irish footballer
– Chad Trujillo, American astronomer