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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Pig in Chinese astrology.
– A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
– The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
– The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
– Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
– The world’s first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
– Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
– Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the International Railway (New York – Ontario).
– First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane.
– Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ronnie Hawkins, American musician
– Gene McDaniels, American singer
– Erich von Däniken, Swiss writer
– Stavros Paravas, Greek actor
– Bernard Pivot, French journalist and television host
– John Phillips, American singer-songwriter (The Mamas & the Papas) (d. 2001)
– Ronnie Dove, American singer
– Gherman Titov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2000)
– Jimmy Armfield, English footballer and manager
– Jerry Orbach, American actor (d. 2004)