reports released to the press did not mention that the B-52 had been carrying thermonuclear bombs. In Nigeria, the new Federal Military Government issued the Constitution Suspension and Modification Decree, replacing the elected local leaders and representatives with military governors who could issue edicts or enforce decrees. Born: Shabba Ranks, Jamaican singer, in Sturgetown, St. Ann, as Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon Gary "Big Daddy" Goodridge, Trinidadian kickboxer, mixed martial arts athlete and world arm wrestling champion, in Saint James. Died: Georges Figon, French "barbouze", shot himself on the eve of his second trial for the kidnapping of Mehdi Ben Barka Newcomb Mott, 27, American book salesman who had been arrested on September 4, 1965, when he sneaked across the border between Norway and the Soviet Union. Mott had been convicted on November 24 of illegal entry into country, and sentenced to 18 months in prison, and was being transferred by train to a forced labor camp in Murmansk. Soviet authorities said five days later that Mott had committed suicide while on the trip. January 18, 1966 (Tuesday) Robert C. Weaver became the first African American to serve as a member of the U.S. president's cabinet, as well as the first United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, hours after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Weaver had already been serving as the Director of the U.S. Housing and Home Finance Agency when the HHFA was elevated to Cabinet-level status. By the time the storm eased, over 200 people had been killed in the U.S., half of them in the southeastern United States. Deaths attributable to the storm came from being frozen to death, dying in fires started while people were trying to heat their homes, from heart attacks while shoveling snow or pushing cars, or in traffic accidents caused by slick roads. A collision near Chandpur Port on the Padma River of East Pakistan, between a passenger ship and a steamship, killed 80 people and injured 38; almost 100 other people on the passenger launch, which had been traveling down the river from Faridpur. The first of 608 performances of Sweet Charity opened at the Palace Theatre in New York City. Born: Romário (Romário de Souza Faria), Brazilian footballer, football manager and politician, in Rio de Janeiro January 30, 1966 (Sunday) The United Kingdom announced that, effective February 3, it was halting nearly all trade with the southern African