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Historical Event(s)
– Irish leader John Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
– Governor of Kentucky William Goebel dies of wound sustained in an assassination attempt three days earlier in Frankfort, Kentucky.
– The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal
– Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
– Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
– The Scofield mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
– Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
– Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appointed Sir William Lyne as premier of the new state New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.
Who Were Born On ?
– Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1958)
– Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (d. 1959)
– Tyrone Guthrie, English actor (d. 1971)
– Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox priest (d. 1979)
– Nathalie Sarraute, French writer (d. 1999)
– Estelle Brody, American actress (d. 1995)
– Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d. 1976)
– Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (d. 1988)
– Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
– Gerald Marks, American songwriter (d. 1997)