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Historical Event(s)
– The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
– Second Boer War: Harry ‘Breaker’Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria.
– James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
– Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
– The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
– Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
– A statue of Joan of Arc is unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
– In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
– The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii.
Who Were Born On ?
– King Saud of Saudi Arabia (d. 1969)
– Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (d. 1940)
– Hartley Shawcross, British lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
– Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect (d. 1971)
– Stepin Fetchit, American dancer and actor (d. 1985)
– Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1992)
– Sammy Fain, American popular music composer (d. 1989)
– Eric Hoffer, American philosopher (d. 1983)
– Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (d. 2003)
– George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (d. 1942)