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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rooster in Chinese astrology.
– Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain Independence from the British
– United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” on the grounds of obscenity.
– Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
– 34 of 35 people aboard are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashed in Hampshire England.
– At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple. The device fails to detonate properly.
– The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
– American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis – Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School.
– The Mackinac Bridge, the world’s longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan’s upper and lower peninsulas.
– The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity.
Who Were Born On ?
– Phil Lewis, American singer (L.A. Guns)
– Lorrie Moore, American writer
– Bob Stoddard, American baseball player
– Amanda Plummer, American actress
– Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (d. 1997)
– Frances McDormand, American actress
– Nery Pumpido, Argentine footballer
– Caroline Aaron, American actress
– Andrew Calhoun, American musician
– Antonio Vega, Spanish pop singer/songwriter (d. 2009)