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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
– The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
– An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
– Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
– The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
– The first Star Trek series premieres on NBC.
– Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
– NASA launches Gemini 12.
– A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
– Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
Who Were Born On ?
– Timo Tolkki, Finnish musician (Stratovarius)
– Lisa Stansfield, English singer
– Peter Abbay, American actor
– Janet Jackson, American singer
– Misato Watanabe, Japanese popular music
– Martina McBride, American country music singer
– Shayne Corson, Canadian ice hockey player
– Jonathan Crombie, Canadian actor
– Royce Gracie, Brazilian martial artist