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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
– Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
– The Second Boer War: The 118-day “Siege of Ladysmith” is lifted.
– Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground “Rapid Transit Railroad” that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
– American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney becomes the first African American to be awarded the Medal of Honor, for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
– The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
– Boxer Rebellion: The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
– Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, “Hun” would be a disparaging name for Germans.
– In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
– Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission (Planck’s law).
Who Were Born On ?
– Richard Halliburton, American adventurer (presumed dead 1939)
– Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (d. 1948)
– Heinrich Müller, head of the Gestapo (disappeared in 1945)
– Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (d. 1986)
– Ernie Pyle, American war correspondent (d. 1945)
– Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
– James Hilton, English novelist (d. 1954)
– Ragnar Granit Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
– Bunny Ahearne, Irish ice hockey promoter (d. 1985)
– Agnes Moorehead, American actress (d. 1974)