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Historical Event(s)
– The Kälvesta air disaster kills 22 people, the worst air crash in Sweden’s history.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Snake in Chinese astrology.
– The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: more than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.
– The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed.
– Military coup in Pakistan: Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, is overthrown.
– The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
– The Sri Lankan riots of 1977, targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamil people, begin, less than a month after the United National Party came to power. Over 300 Tamils are killed.
– The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight.
– The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
– TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 130.
Who Were Born On ?
– Kensuke Kita, Japanese guitarist (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)
– Jim Kleinsasser, American football player
– Ville Nieminen, Finnish ice hockey player
– Neil Hopkins, American actor
– Kristin Gore, American author and screenwriter
– Pamela Rogers Turner, former elementary school physical education teacher/coach and convicted sex offender
– Rahman “Rock” Harper, American personality, Restauranteur
– Park Yong-ha, South Korean actor and singer (d. 2010)
– Jeff Irwin, American musician
– Orlando Hudson, American baseball player