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Historical Event(s)
– U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the “military-industrial complex”.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Ox in Chinese astrology.
– The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
– American civil rights movement: The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob.
– 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.
– The German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants’ attempts to escape to the West.
– Sierra Leone joins the United Nations.
– NASA launches the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
– Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jasper Fforde, British author
– Vince Russo, American writer
– Rick Steiner, American wrestler
– Anthony Cumia, American radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show)
– Harry Enfield, British comedian
– Karen Barber, English ice dancer
– Robin Antin, American reality television personality and model
– Jonathan Coe, British author
– Jared Harris, English actor
– Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Greek economist and politician