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Historical Event(s)
– Second Red Scare: Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Tiger in Chinese astrology.
– Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name “Californium”.
– Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.
– Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements.
– Indonesia joins the United Nations.
– Television: CBS’s mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
– The People’s Republic of China joins the Korean War by sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river to fight United Nations forces.
– Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash. Twenty-one people are killed, seventeen of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.
– Korean War: Troops from the People’s Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and United Nations forces (Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River and Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.
Who Were Born On ?
– Charlie Richmond, Canadian entrepreneur
– Sébastien Dhavernas, Canadian actor
– Alexander Lebed, Russian general and politician (d. 2002)
– Bruce Boxleitner, American actor
– Valeria Novodvorskaya, Russian politician, dissident, founder and chairwoman of the Democratic Union party
– Nitza Saul, Israeli actress Jean and Marc V. La Banca (twins)
– Chris Heister, Swedish politician
– Renato Zero, Italian musician
– Randy Quaid, American actor
– Joey Travolta, American actor