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Historical Event(s)
– The distress signal “CQD” is established only to be replaced two years later by “SOS”.
– Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
– The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
– The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
– A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City’s East River kills 1,000.
– Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called “Bloomsday”.
– The SS Norge runs aground and sinks
– The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.
– The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
Who Were Born On ?
– George F. Kennan, American historian and diplomat (d. 2005)
– Nikos Skalkottas, Greek composer (d. 1949)
– Pyotr Sobolevsky, Soviet actor (d. 1977)
– Jan Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984)
– Milburn Stone, American actor (d. 1980)
– Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, American lawyer; last direct descendant of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1985)
– Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor (d. 1988)
– Albert Ross Tilley, Canadian Plastic Surgeon (d. 1988)
– Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (d. 2000)
– Joseph Moses Juran, American industrial engineer and philanthropist (d. 2008)