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Historical Event(s)
– The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world’s longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Pig in Chinese astrology.
– The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
– The German magazine Der Stern claims that the “Hitler Diaries” had been found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries.
– American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
– Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
– Cold War: Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
– Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a likely worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
– Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019 km/h), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
– Avianca Flight 011, a Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid’s Barajas Airport, killing 181.
Who Were Born On ?
– Li Nina, Chinese aerial skier
– Diane Birch, American singer/songwriter/pianist
– Rubén Palazuelos, Spanish football player
– Charlie Haeger, American baseball player
– Archimede Morleo, Italian footballer
– Han Yeo-reum, South Korean actress
– Yuko Ogura, Japanese model
– Alexa Chung, British TV presenter and former fashion model
– Harry Lloyd, English actor
– Stephen Donald, New Zealand rugby player