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Historical Event(s)
– The New York City “Mad Bomber”, George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rooster in Chinese astrology.
– Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage.
– United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” on the grounds of obscenity.
– Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous Power of Nonviolence speech at the University of California, Berkeley.
– John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party rule.
– President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
– Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene.
– The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world’s first major nuclear accident.
Who Were Born On ?
– Joe Mullen, American ice hockey player
– Steve Lake, American baseball player
– Amanda Plummer, American actress
– Greg Child, Australian mountaineer
– Edward Leslie, American professional wrestler
– Kenji Kawai, Japanese composer
– Mike Gatting, English cricketer
– Kyra Schon, American actress
– Michael Bailey Smith, American actor