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** Judy Garland dies of drug overdose in her London home
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** In London at the Wood Green Empire, Chung Ling Soo ( William E Robinson, U. S .- born magician ) dies during his trick where he is supposed to " catch " two separate bullets – but one of them perforates his lung.
** President of Côte d ' Ivoire Félix Houphouët-Boigny dies at 83, the oldest African head of state.
** Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom dies at age 81, after more than 63 years on the throne, and her son the Prince of Wales formally succeeds her as King Edward VII.
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** Howard Hughes nearly dies in a test flight of the Hughes XF-11 and crashes it in a suburban Beverly Hills neighborhood because of a propeller malfunction.
** Governor William Goebel of Kentucky dies of wounds after being shot by several assassins on January 30.
** Josef Bachmann tries to assassinate Rudi Dutschke, leader of the left-wing movement ( APO ) in Germany, and tries to commit suicide afterwards, failing in both, although Dutschke dies of his brain injuries 11 years later.
** Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad, 1st Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, dies in office.
** Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah, Sultan of Selangor and 2nd Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, dies in office.
** Roberto Clemente dies in a plane crash off the coast of Puerto Rico while en route to deliver aid to Nicaraguan earthquake victims.
** In Los Angeles, Rock and blues singer Janis Joplin dies in her hotel room, from an overdose of heroin.
** François Duvalier, president of Haiti, dies ; his son Jean-Claude Duvalier follows him as president-for-life.
** Former U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson dies at his Stonewall, Texas ranch, leaving no former U. S. President living until the resignation of Richard M. Nixon in 1974.
** Spanish dictator Francisco Franco dies in Madrid, effectively marking the end of the dictatorship established following the Spanish Civil War and the beginning of Spain's transition to democracy.
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