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Historical Event(s)
– President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Ox in Chinese astrology.
– The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1.451 feet as the world’s tallest building.
– Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched.
– The Pakistani Constitution of 1973 comes into effect.
– A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term “Stockholm syndrome”.
– Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
– In the Thammasat student uprising over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanom military government; 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
– Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.
– Terrorism: 30 passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci Airport.
Who Were Born On ?
– Andrew DeClercq, American basketball player
– Oscar de la Hoya, Mexican-American boxer
– Roselyn Sánchez, Puerto Rican singer, model and actress
– Iain Lee, British television/radio personality
– Sourav Ganguly, Indian cricketer
– Ronald Ray Howard, American murderer (d. 2005)
– Carl Bulfin, New Zealand cricketer
– Demis Nikolaidis, Greek footballer
– Verka Serduchka, Ukrainian entertainer
– Sharlto Copley, South African producer, actor and director