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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.
– The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
– Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.
– The British Labour Party is founded.
– The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
– Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
– Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departed Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
– In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
– The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company is founded.
Who Were Born On ?
– Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer (d. 1942)
– Charles Richter, American geophysicist (d. 1985)
– Martin Bormann, German Nazi official (d. 1945)
– Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (d. 1986)
– Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1976)
– Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d. 1976)
– W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979)
– Claude Pepper, American politician (d. 1989)
– Goose Goslin, American baseball player (d. 1971)
– Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (d. 1988)