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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Monkey in Chinese astrology.
– U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces to the nation that he is running for a second term.
– Morocco gains its independence from France.
– Soviet military suppresses a mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization policy.
– Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers make the first ascent of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
– Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its very last “Big Tent” show in Pittsburgh, due to changing economics all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas.
– After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.
– The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.
– The Tangier Protocol is signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jonathan Coleman, Anglo-Australian entertainer
– Bryan Cranston, American actor
– Steve Harris, English musician
– David E. Kelley, American writer and TV producer
– Ted Haggard, American evangelical preacher
– Charles Crist, American politician
– Fulvio Melia, Italian-born American physicist, astrophysicist and author
– Masashi Tashiro, Japanese television performer
– Tom Greenhalgh, multimedia artist and singer-songwriter known for his work with the Mekons