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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
– Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus.
– Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
– Vietnam War: at the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
– A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson’s cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
– Operation Banner: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland.
– The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery Date.
– Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
– Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
– Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan’s motion to make permanent the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder (but not for all crimes) for a period of five years.
Who Were Born On ?
– Karl-Heinz Grasser, Austrian politician
– Predrag Mijatović, Yugoslavian footballer
– Timo Kotipelto, Finnish musician
– Mannie Fresh, American producer
– Wes Anderson, American director and writer
– Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor
– Divine Brown, American sex worker and convicted felon
– Angelo Barretto, Filipino race car driver
– Michael V., Filipino comedian and actor
– Brad Anderson, American professional wrestler