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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.
– Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet’s surface.
– Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land on another world.
– The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
– The National Organization for Women, the United States’ largest feminist organization, is founded.
– Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
– The first Star Trek series premieres on NBC.
– U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
– Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations.
– The Arno River flooded Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7 m, leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jonathan Edwards, English athlete
– Tamela Mann, American gospel singer and actress
– Minaguchi Yuko, Japanese voice actress
– Maria Furtwängler, German physician
– Maria Canals Barrera, American actress, singer
– Michael Kenneth Williams, American actor
– Clifford Robinson, American basketball player
– Robert MacNaughton, American stage and screen actor
– Eva LaRue, American actress
– Laurent Boudouani French Boxer