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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Pig in Chinese astrology.
– Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
– Iakovos is enthroned as Greek Orthodox Archbishop of America.
– The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
– The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Lord Cobham.
– A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim (Norway) kills 34 people.
– The Party of the African Federation holds its constitutive conference.
– The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the “sheaves of wheat” design, and was minted until 2008.
– Iowa farmer and corn breeder Roswell Garst hosts Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.
– General Charles de Gaulle, President of France, declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for a “Europe, ”from the Atlantic to the Urals.\"
Who Were Born On ?
– Kelly Moore, American stock car driver
– Christian Clemenson, American actor
– Jervis Johnson, Games Designer for Games Workshop, Nottingham
– Doug Herzog, American television executive
– Mike Gminski, American basketball player
– Brian Higgins, American politician, and Member of the United States House of Representatives from New York
– Anna Escobedo Cabral, 42nd Treasurer of the United States
– Gary Kemp, British musician and actor
– Russell Gilbert, Australian comedian
– Thomas Quasthoff, German singer