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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.
– 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.
– The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world.
– German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
– The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five Sclass Borodinos, is launched.
– Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.
– Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices.
– The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for “majority”) and Mensheviks (Russian for “minority”).
– The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
Who Were Born On ?
– Paul A. Dever, 58th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
– Otto P. Weyland, American military figure (d. 1979)
– Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (d. 1990)
– Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (d. 1976)
– Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player (d. 1993)
– King Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)
– Phyllis Whitney, American writer (d. 2008)
– Lina Radke, German athlete (d. 1983)
– Evelyn Waugh, English writer (d. 1966)
– Cecil Frank Powell, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1969)