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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Pig in Chinese astrology.
– The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begin in Detroit, Michigan.
– Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacred over 1,000 people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh.
– Ping Pong Diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People’s Republic of China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a weeklong visit.
– Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
– The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.
– The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
– State police and National Guardsmen storm New York’s Attica Prison to end a prison revolt.
– Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
– Intel releases world’s first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
Who Were Born On ?
– Fabian Ribauw, Nauruan politician
– C-Murder, American rapper
– Sheryl Swoopes, American basketball player
– Josh Kronfeld, New Zealander rugby union footballer
– Khaled Mahmud, Bangladeshi cricketer
– Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor
– Mary Jo Fernandez, Tennis player
– BoneCrusher, American rapper
– Brad May, Canadian hockey player
– Roger J. Beaujard, American musician