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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Tiger in Chinese astrology.
– A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293.
– Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
– Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
– Gaura Devi leads a group of 27 women of Laata village, Henwalghati, Garhwal Himalayas, to form circles around trees to stop them being felled and giving rise to the Chipko Movement in India.
– Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
– Josip Broz Tito is re-elected president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he is elected for life.
– Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the “Green Line”, dividing Cyprus into two zones.
– Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
– Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia.
Who Were Born On ?
– Gina Lynn, American porn actress
– Luis Figueroa, Puerto Rican baseball player
– Àlex Corretja, Spanish tennis player
– Akara Amarttayakul, Thai actor
– Jang Jin-young, South Korean actress (d. 2009)
– Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor
– Igor Bogdanović, Serbian footballer
– Martin Müürsepp, Estonian basketball player
– Alexis Cruz, American actor