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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
– The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company’s refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.
– Kuwait joins the United Nations.
– The Buddhist crisis: Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam attack protesting Buddhists in Huế, South Vietnam, with liquid chemicals from tear gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.
– British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal known as the Profumo Affair.
– American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
– American Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 106 km.
– An explosion at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum (now Pepsi Coliseum) in Indianapolis kills 74 people during an ice skating show. The explosion also injures 400. A faulty propane tank connection in a concession stand is blamed.
– The first push-button telephone goes into service.
– Vietnam War: Newly sworn-in US President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam both militarily and economically.
Who Were Born On ?
– Andrei Tchmil, Ukrainian-Belgian cyclist
– Ed Lover, American radio personality
– Shawon Dunston, American baseball player
– Filippo Galli, Italian footballer
– Keti Garbi, Greek singer
– Dizzy Reed, American keyboardist (Guns N' Roses)
– Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player
– David Wood, American environmentalist
– Stanley Menzo, Dutch footballer and manager
– Monty Sopp, American professional wrestler