The carrier rocket malfunctioned, placing the spacecraft into the wrong orbit, but it still managed to complete most of its imaging mission. Helicopters rescued all 179 people who had been trapped in a Canadian National Railway train by snow that had blocked them in the Fraser Canyon in British Columbia. The airlift was accomplished by three private helicopters, and a 22-seat Royal Canadian Air Force helicopter. Born: Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. (killed in plane crash, 1999) Jonathan Jackson, U.S. business professor, entrepreneur, and social justice advocate, son of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, in Chicago Died: Herbert Sandberg, 63, Swedish conductor, librettist, and composer January 8, 1966 (Saturday) Operation Crimp, also known as the Battle of the Ho Bo Woods, was jointly launched by U.S. and Australian forces fighting in Vietnam. William Gopallawa, the Governor-General of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), declared a state of emergency throughout the South Asian island nation, after protests by the Sinhalese majority against recent regulations that favored the Tamil language. A young Buddhist priest was killed by the army crackdown on the riots. Press censorship and curfews would stay in place for 11 months, ending on December 7, 1966. Born: Andrew Wood, American grunge musician, in Seattle (d. 1990) January 9, 1966 (Sunday) The foundation stone for the Aswan Dam was laid down in Egypt in a ceremony presided over by United Arab Republic President Gamel Abdel Nasser. The flooding that would follow would require the moving of 50,000 residents, mostly Nubian, from the city of Wadi Halfa. For the first time, a radar signal was successfully bounced off of the planet Venus and detected on its return to Earth. Astronomers at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, at the University of Manchester in England, were able to pick up the returning signal on the diameter Lovell Telescope, which was three times more sensitive than previous radar measuring instruments. Australian troops began breaking into the Cu Chi tunnels that allowed troops from the north to infiltrate South Vietnam. Tom Hayden, Herbert Aptheker and Staughton Lynd, returned to the United States after being the first Americans to be invited to tour North Vietnam. Despite the trip being illegal, the three were not charged nor were their American passports confiscated. Seven sailors on board a Chinese landing craft mutinied, but in the ensuing gun battle only three people, all defectors, survived. Taiwan President Chiang Kai-shek proclaimed