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Historical Event(s)
– Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the “barricades week”, during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
– The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100.
– Cuban photographer Alberto Korda took his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
– Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
– The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle’s Enovid, making Enovid the world’s first approved oral contraceptive pill.
– Madagascar gains its independence from France.
– Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
– Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
– King Mahendra of Nepal suspends the country’s constitution, dissolves parliament, dismisses the cabinet, and imposes direct rule.
Who Were Born On ?
– Bernd Stieler, German footballer
– Nicol Stephen, Deputy First Minister of Scotland
– Peter O'Brien, Australian actor
– Roger Taylor, British musician (Duran Duran)
– John Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran)
– Ian Hislop, British writer and editor
– Fritz Walter, German footballer
– Howard Johnson, American baseball player
– Craig Scanlon, English guitarist (The Fall)
– Ron Bottitta, British actor