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Historical Event(s)
– Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
– For the first time, ever, the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
– The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
– 8 people in South Korea, who are involved in People’s Revolutionary Party Incident, are hanged.
– Mayagüez incident: the Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
– Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
– Syed Nazrul Islam, A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, Tajuddin Ahmad, and Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politicians and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman loyalists, murdered in the Dhaka Central Jail.
– Independence of Angola.
– East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.
Who Were Born On ?
– Juvenile, American rapper
– Karin Dreijer Andersson, Swedish singer
– Shin Jung-hwan, Korean singer
– Peter Iwers, Swedish Musician
– Rebecca Cardon, American reality TV personality (The Amazing Race)
– Erik Ohlsson, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
– Cherie Priest, American writer
– Blake Adams, American golfer
– Melanie Pullen, American photographer
– Moon Bloodgood, American actress