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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Monkey in Chinese astrology.
– AEK Athens BC becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup.
– President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
– Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzũ is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
– James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
– Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
– Vietnam War: Operation Sealords – United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta.
– Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps will send about 24,000 soldiers and Marines back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty in the combat zone there.
– Japan’s biggest heist, the still-unsolved “300 million yen robbery”, is carried out in Tokyo.
Who Were Born On ?
– Felix Chong, Hong Kong screenwriter
– Gonzalo Lira, Chilean-American novelist
– Orlando Jones, American actor and comedian
– Mswati III, King of Swaziland
– Rafet El Roman, Turkish singer and composer
– Jon Guenther, American author
– Tim Wise, American writer and activist
– Susan Tully, English actress (Eastenders)
– Michael Vartan, French-born actor
– Margaret Cho, American comedian and actress