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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
– Anton Bruckner’s 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna.
– The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
– Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
– Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
– May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
– Fall of the Ottoman Empire: an unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, takes place.
– Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.
– The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for “majority”) and Mensheviks (Russian for “minority”).
– The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Who Were Born On ?
– Robin Milford, British composer (d. 1959)
– King Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)
– Nikolay Cherkasov, Russian actor (d. 1966)
– Lucienne Boyer, French singer (d. 1983)
– William Primrose, Scottish violist (d. 1982)
– Prince Charles of Belgium, Prince Regent of Belgium (d. 1983)
– Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (d. 2003)
– Nathanael West, American writer (d. 1940)
– Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (d. 1987)
– Hardie Albright, American actor (d. 1975)