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Historical Event(s)
– President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Monkey in Chinese astrology.
– Morocco gains its independence from France.
– In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister.
– Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.
– In Operation Redwing (shot Cherokee), the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean;
– 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.
– The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
– New York Yankees’s Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series; one of only 20 perfect games in MLB history.
– The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore state are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.
Who Were Born On ?
– Shawn Colvin, American singer
– Dalia Grybauskaitė, Lithuanian politician
– Ketil Stokkan, Norwegian singer
– Réal Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player
– Stepfanie Kramer, American actress
– Jon “Bermuda” Schwartz, American musician
– Steve Coleman, African American saxophone player, spontaneous composer, composer and band leader
– Grover Norquist, American political figure
– Judy Tenuta, American comedienne and accordionist
– Michele Alboreto, Italian Formula one driver (d. 2001)