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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Ox in Chinese astrology.
– The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
– Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
– Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
– Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. The first American private school in the country.
– Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
– In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
– The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster.
– The U.S. Army War College is established.
– Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John’s, Newfoundland.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (d. 1978)
– Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist (d. 1987)
– Charles Goren, American bridge player and writer (d. 1991)
– Karl Arnold, German politician (d. 1958)
– Eisaku Sato, Japanese statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1975)
– Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese film producer (d. 1970)
– Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955)
– Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter and singer (d. 1971)
– Ed Sullivan, American television show host (d. 1974)
– George Gallup, American statistician and pollster (d. 1984)