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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Horse in Chinese astrology.
– McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, “A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy”, produced by Fred Friendly.
– Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
– Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
– The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place.
– The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
– McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, “You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”
– At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.
– The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world’s first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
– In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges Meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap in the only documented case of a human being hit by a rock from space.
Who Were Born On ?
– Rudy La Scala, Venezuelan singer-songwriter
– Matt Groening, American cartoonist
– Mark Chorvinsky, American author and editor (d. 2005)
– Walter Payton, American football player (d. 1999)
– Michael Shermer, American science writer
– William McKeen, American author
– Joël-François Durand, French composer
– George Lynch, American musician (Dokken)
– Mario Testino, Peruvian-born English fashion photographer
– Barry Greenstein, American poker player