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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rooster in Chinese astrology.
– The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
– The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) launches on the STS-1 mission.
– Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
– Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
– Prime Minister of Italy Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).
– U.S. President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
– The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
– Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
– Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. Federal Government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
Who Were Born On ?
– Bitsie Tulloch, American actress
– Gareth Barry, English footballer
– David Anders, American actor
– Marius Stankevičius, Lithuanian footballer
– Agata Wróbel, Polish weightlifter
– Greg Warren, American football player
– Roddy White, American football player
– Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer
– Nicholas Teo, Malaysian singer and actor
– Michael Rodríguez, Costa Rican footballer