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** The Green Bay Packers become the first team in the modern era to win their third consecutive NFL Championship, 21-17 over the Dallas Cowboys in what became known as " The Ice Bowl ".
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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.
** Andy Green sets the first supersonic land speed record for the ThrustSSC team, led by Richard Noble of the UK.
** The 14th Academy Awards ceremony is held in Los Angeles ; How Green Was My Valley wins Best Picture.
** In Lumberton, North Carolina, Daniel Green is convicted of the murder of James Jordan, the father of basketball star Michael Jordan.
** January 15 The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10.
** and Bay
** On the Gulf of Mexico Coast, the Tampa Bay Area, consisting of Tampa, Clearwater, and St. Petersburg
** The Bay of Pigs Invasion ( 1961 ) – an unsuccessful attempt by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from US government armed forces, to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
** The Wilhelm Gustloff, with over 10, 000 mainly civilian Germans from Gotenhafen ( Gdynia ) in the Gdansk Bay, is sunk by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea ; up to 9, 400 are thought to have died – the greatest loss of life in a single ship sinking in war action in history.
** WWII ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz for the United States, and delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, China, and others from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, on board the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
** A BOAC scheduled passenger flight, a DC-3 with registration G-AGBB, ( formerly KLM PH-ALI, Ibis ), enroute between Lisbon and Bristol, is attacked over the Bay of Biscay by German fighters.
** In Florida, the Liberian freighter Summit Venture hits the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay.
** Yangtze River Floods: In China the Yangtze River breaks through the main bank ; before this, from August 1 – 5, peripheral levees collapsed consecutively in Jiayu County Baizhou Bay.
** The BC Ferries company, later to become the second-largest ferry operator in th world, commences service between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay, British Columbia, Canada.
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