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Historical Event(s)
– Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
– With the success of a nuclear test codenamed “Gerboise Bleue”, France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
– The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
– The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
– Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.
– The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
– Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
– The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
– The musical Camelot debuted at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway, and would become associated with the Kennedy administration.
Who Were Born On ?
– Arye Gross, American actor
– Marcus Allen, American football player
– Rob Murphy, American baseball player
– Carol Kirkwood, Scottish weather presenter
– Sarah Brightman, British soprano
– Kristin Halvorsen, Norwegian politician
– Kurt Busiek, American comic book writer
– Ken O'Brien, American football player
– Christian Müller, German footballer
– Matthew Kandegas, American Painter