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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.
– Nine terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijack Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.
– President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General’s warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertisements on television and radio in the United States, starting on January 1, 1971.
– Paul McCartney announces that he leaves The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
– The Hutt River Province Principality secedes from Australia.
– The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
– The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
– The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall on the coast of East Pakistan becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history.
– October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Canadian government grants five terrorists from the FLQ’s Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.
– The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York City is topped out at 1,368 feet (417 m), making it the tallest building in the world.
Who Were Born On ?
– Christian Duguay, American comic actor
– Saad Hariri, Prime Minister of Lebanon
– Shemar Moore, American actor
– Nicklas Lidström, Swedish ice hockey player
– Brian Welch, American guitarist (Korn)
– Roope Latvala, Finnish guitarist (Children of Bodom)
– Neko Case, American musician
– Yang Hyun Suk, South Korean record producer
– Carmen Campuzano, Mexican actress and fashion model
– Rob Van Dam, American professional wrestler