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Historical Event(s)
– Members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary damage property and assault occupants in the Bogside in Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. In response, residents erect barricades and establish Free Derry.
– Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire 3 days earlier in Prague’s Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major protest.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
– At the U.S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.
– Melbourne-Evans collision: Off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half.
– Nigeria bans Red Cross aid to Biafra.
– The Woodstock Music and Art Festival opens.
– Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damage.
– An Australian, Michael Dennis Rohan, sets the Al-Aqsa Mosque on fire, a major catalyst of the formation of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
– Meredith Hunter is killed by the Hells Angels during a The Rolling Stones’s concert at the Altamont Speedway in California.
Who Were Born On ?
– Melissa DiMarco, Canadian actress
– John Eder, American politician
– P.J. Sparxx, American pornographic actress
– Soraya, Colombian-American singer (d. 2006)
– Kevin Corrigan, American actor
– Dustin Rhodes, American professional wrestler
– Alan Mullally, England cricketer
– Kenneth D. Schisler, American politician
– Johnathon Schaech, American actor
– Chris Mason, English darts player