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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Ox in Chinese astrology.
– The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
– CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.
– Algiers putsch by French generals.
– American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for “disturbing the peace” after disembarking from their bus.
– Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a “man on the Moon” before the end of the decade.
– Peter Benenson’s article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
– Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
– NASA launches the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
– Fire in the Gran Circus American in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the biggest tragedy in circus history.
Who Were Born On ?
– Todd Haynes, American film director
– Suggs, English singer (Madness)
– Greg Anderson, American NHRA driver
– Pedro Romeiras, Portuguese dancer
– Rick Price, Australian singer-songwriter
– Andres Calamaro, Argentine musician
– Jack Dee, British comedian
– Matthew Roloff, American reality star
– Mariel Hemingway, American actress
– Harry Gregson-Williams, English composer