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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dog in Chinese astrology.
– The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
– UMNO is created.
– Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.
– Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
– First flight of the Convair B-36, the world’s first mass-produce nuclear weapon delivery vehicle.
– Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
– Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.
– The New York Knicks played against the Toronto Huskies at the Maple Leaf Gardens, in the first Basketball Association of America game. The Knicks would win 68–66.
– The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jim Webb, American politician, senior senator of Virginia
– Mem Fox, Australian writer
– Matthew Fisher, British musician (Procol Harum)
– Nate Colbert, American baseball player
– Ron Kovic, American peace activist
– Gerardus 't Hooft, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate
– Alun Armstrong, English actor
– Jonathan Edwards, American singer and songwriter
– Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf) (d. 1993)
– Brian Cadd, Australian singer-songwriter