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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Sheep in Chinese astrology.
– Soviet Union regional elections, 1955.
– Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
– Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
– The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
– Lux Radio Theater signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
– Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
– Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
– The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
– NORAD Tracks Santa for the first time in what will become an annual Christmas Eve tradition.
Who Were Born On ?
– Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist
– Kevin Reed, American theologian
– Jack Morris, American baseball player
– Bill Paxton, American actor and film director
– Gail Jones, Australian author
– Iman Abdulmajid, Somali model
– John E. Sweeney, American politician
– Steven Severin, British musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
– Teresa De Sio, Italian singer-songwriter
– Kitty Margolis, American jazz singer