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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Snake in Chinese astrology.
– Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
– Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the US Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
– Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played.
– Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Crew-member Ed White performs the first American spacewalk.
– The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
– General Suharto rises to power after a coup that alleged to the Communist Party of Indonesia. In response, Suharto and his army massacre over a million Indonesians suspected of being communists. The killings of 7 army officers happened in the early hours of 1 October 1965.
– Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (United States) (Airmobile), in conjunction with South Vietnamese forces, launches a new operation seeking to destroy North Vietnamese forces in Pleiku in the II Corps Tactical Zone (the Central Highlands).
– Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans made use of this program.
– Vietnam War: The Battle of the Ia Drang begins – the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
Who Were Born On ?
– Yoriko Douguchi, Japanese actress
– John Kordic, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
– Reuben Davis, American football player
– Rob Dickinson, English guitarist, singer and songwriter (Catherine Wheel)
– Jeremy Piven, American actor
– Hayato Matsuo, Japanese composer
– Bernard Lord, Canadian politician
– Luke Perry, American actor
– Björk, Icelandic musician
– Craig Berube, Canadian ice hockey player