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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
– Second Boer War: In the Battle of Tweebosch, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey inflicts the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war
– James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
– Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake.
– Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
– The Campanile in St. Mark’s Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
– Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
– A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
– In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
– Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.
Who Were Born On ?
– Stella Gibbons, English novelist (d. 1989)
– Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (d. 1940)
– Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1987)
– Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984)
– Son House, American musician (d. 1988)
– Alexander Luria, Russian psychologist (d. 1977)
– Margaret Murie, American conservationist, naturalist, and author (d. 2003)
– Miriam Hopkins, American actress (d. 1972)
– Sir Humphrey Gibbs, Rhodesian politician (d. 1990)
– Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter (d. 2003)