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Historical Event(s)
– World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the implementation of the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
– World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces successfully raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.
– Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
– World War II: in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.
– World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
– Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
– Holocaust: Vel‘ d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel’d'Hiv): the government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who are held at the Winter Velodrome in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz.
– World War II: Battle of the Atlantic – German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system.
– Australian and US forces inflict a significant defeat upon the Japanese at the Battle of Milne Bay.
Who Were Born On ?
– Zorán Sztevanovity, Serbian born Hungarian musician, singer and composer
– Françoise Dorléac, French actress (d. 1967)
– Jerry Sloan, American basketball player and head coach
– Peter Sissons, British newsreader
– Larry Hartsell, American martial arts instructor (d. 2007)
– Isaac Hayes, American singer, songwriter, and actor (d. 2008)
– Danny Hutton, American singer
– Michel Drucker, French journalist and television host
– Philippe Huttenlocher, Swiss opera singer
– Peter Handke, Austrian writer