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Historical Event(s)
– Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
– In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Ox in Chinese astrology.
– The Leadbeater’s Possum is rediscovered in Australia after 72 years.
– Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of CIA financed and trained Cuban exiles lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
– 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 Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
– U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
– Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
– 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 ?
– Sidney Green, American basketball player
– Andrew Paul, English actor
– Akira Taue, Japanese professional wrestler
– Jimmy Somerville, Scottish singer (Bronski Beat, Communards)
– Stephen Hillenburg, American animator and cartoonist
– Cliff Benson, American football player
– Carlos Valderrama, Colombian footballer
– Jean-Yves Thibaudet, French pianist
– Edward Knight, American composer
– Oded Schramm, Israeli-American mathematician