foreign Muslims starting from Mount Ararat to reach Mecca. The growth of the number of pilgrims followed improvements in the Saudi transportation infrastructure, including an expansion of the Jeddah airport that could accommodate 120 aircraft landings and 10,000 visitors per day. The first performance of the musical Grease took place at the Kingston Mines Theater in Chicago, with music and lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The show would move to New York City and become a long-running hit on Broadway and a popular film. The 28th Golden Globe Awards ceremony was held by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. Love Story and M*A*S*H won the awards for motion pictures for best drama and best musical or comedy. George C. Scott (for Patton) and Ali MacGraw (for Love Story) won the Best Actor and Best Actress Awards for a Motion Picture Drama, respectively, and Albert Finney (for Scrooge) and Carrie Snodgress (for Diary of a Mad Housewife) won the top acting awards for Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Medical Center and The Carol Burnett Show won the Golden Globes for the best TV drama and best TV comedy. Born: Peter Cipollone, American Olympic oarsman and coxswain of the U.S. gold medal-winning team in 2004; in Marietta, Ohio Died: Mátyás Rákosi, 78, General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party from 1948 to 1956 until his forced removal under pressure from the Soviet Union prior to the Hungarian Revolution. February 6, 1971 (Saturday) An earthquake in Italy's Lazio region killed 31 people in the city of Tuscania. Gunner Robert Curtis became the first British Army soldier to die in the Northern Ireland Conflict (referred to colloquially as "The Troubles") between the majority Protestant and minority Catholic residents of Northern Ireland, and between supporters and opponents of the area remaining within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland rather than as a part of the Republic of Ireland. A fire broke out at Mike's Grocery in Wilmington, North Carolina, the product of a firebomb, followed by riots, and leading to the wrongful conviction of the "Wilmington Ten". In 1972, the men would be convicted of arson and conspiracy after prosecutorial misconduct, and receive sentences ranging from 15 to 34 years in prison. The sentences would be reduced in 1978 by the state Governor, and in 1980, the convictions would be overturned by a