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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Monkey in Chinese astrology.
– Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3.
– The Suriname government is overthrown by a military coup which is initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship off the coast of the nation’s capital, Paramaribo
– On the season finale of the soap opera Dallas, the infamous character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase “Who shot J.R.?”
– Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested.
– In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. 35 people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
– An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
– A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
– Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.
– A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs in the Algerian town of El Asnam. 3.500 die and 300,000 are left homeless.
Who Were Born On ?
– Sanae Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
– Trent Croad, Australian footballer
– Clueso, German singer, rapper, songwriter and producer
– Patrick Aufiero, American ice hockey player
– Kristen Bell, American actress
– Neal Musser, American baseball player
– Macaulay Culkin, American actor
– Derrick Ward, American football player
– Dallas Green, Canadian musician (Alexisonfire, City and Colour)
– Martín Demichelis, Argentine footballer