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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Pig in Chinese astrology.
– The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
– A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
– George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the “Pine Tar Incident”.
– The USSR vetoes a UN Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet shooting down of a Korean civilian jetliner on September 1.
– Maze Prison escape: 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze prison. It is the largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.
– Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019 km/h), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
– Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
– 1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No people are harmed, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
– Brink’s-MAT robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink’s-MAT vault at Heathrow Airport.
Who Were Born On ?
– Scott Speed, American race car driver
– Gabriel Sargissian, Armenian chess Grandmaster
– Georgios Gougoulias, Greek footballer
– Callix Crabbe, US Virgin Islander baseball player
– Glen Perkins, American baseball player
– Zach Gowen, American professional wrestler
– Stanislav Chistov, Russian hockey player
– Marie Serneholt, Swedish musician (A*Teens)
– Sarah Jones, American actress
– Mirko Vučinić, Montenegrin footballer