honor the Lam Son uprising by the Vietnamese people in 1418 against the Chinese Empire. South Africa's white minority government eased its apartheid regulations to a degree by allowing mixed-race Africans ("Coloureds") to work in construction jobs formerly limited to whites only. Black South Africans were still barred from working on "white" projects in Pretoria, and the change in policy, prompted by a shortage of skilled workers, was limited to bricklayers and plasterers. Gert Beetge, the general secretary of the all-white Union of Building Workers, criticized the decision of the Labor Ministry and said that it marked "the death knell to white building workers". The Siahkal incident marked the beginning of guerrilla attacks against the Iranian monarchy, with the killing of three police in the town of Siahkal in order to release two prisoners. The 11 surviving guerrillas, and both prisoners, were executed. The IBM company retired its first high-selling computer model, the IBM 1401, that had been introduced in 1959 and sold 12,000 units. The company also halted further sales of its less expensive version of the 1401, the IBM 1440. Born: Andrus Veerpalu, Estonian skier, in Pärnu February 9, 1971 (Tuesday) At exactly 41 seconds after 6:00 in the morning local time, the 6.5 Sylmar earthquake struck the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme) and lasted 12 seconds. With an epicenter at the Pacoima section of Los Angeles, it killed 58 people by falling debris; another seven died from heart attacks. Most of the deaths were in the collapse of the Olive View hospital and the VA hospital in Sylmar. The six member nations of the European Economic Community (EEC), also known as the "Common Market", approved a plan to create a common unit of currency over the next ten years. The European Currency Unit (ECU) would be implemented by 1979 for use in international transactions involving the EEC members (Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany) but the Euro would not be put in to circulation until 2002. Satchel Paige became the first primarily Negro league player to become voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Paige had played five full seasons in the American League after the integration of Major League Baseball, but was enshrined for his 18 years in the first and second Negro National Leagues and the Negro American League. The original