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Historical Event(s)
– Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Ox in Chinese astrology.
– The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1.451 feet as the world’s tallest building.
– Catastrophic BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane is being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills 11 firefighters.
– Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
– A United Nations sanctioned cease-fire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria.
– The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
– U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
– Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors “I am not a crook”.
– The Islamic Development Bank is founded.
Who Were Born On ?
– Carlo Resoort, Dutch DJ
– Phillip Daniels, American footballer
– Joe Machine, English artist, poet and writer
– Julián Tavárez, Dominican baseball player
– George Hincapie, American cyclist
– Mur Lafferty, American podcaster and writer
– Toby Allen, Australian singer (Human Nature)
– Kirby Morrow, Canadian voice actor
– Alexandra Kerry, daughter of American Senator John Kerry
– Ada Choi, Hong Kong actress