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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dog in Chinese astrology.
– Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. Military with My Lai war crimes.
– An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.
– Protests erupt in Seattle, Washington, following the announcement by U.S. President Richard Nixon that U.S. Forces in Vietnam would pursue enemy troops into Cambodia, a neutral country.
– Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.
– The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.
– President General Yahya Khan abolishes One-Unit of West Pakistan restoring the provinces.
– Venera Program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
– Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
– Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
Who Were Born On ?
– Royce Clayton, American baseball player
– Ken Leung, American actor
– Tracey Cherelle Jones, American actress
– Cenk Uygur, American radio talk show host
– Carlo Checchinato, Italian rugby player and manager
– Paula Kelley, American musician
– Tetsuya Nomura, Japanese video-game designer
– Maja Tatic, Bosnia singer
– Yang Hyun Suk, South Korean record producer
– Bryant Stith, American basketball player