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Historical Event(s)
– Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
– Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
– Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison’s phonograph cylinder.
– The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
– The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
– Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
– The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
– English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
Who Were Born On ?
– Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (d. 2006)
– Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988)
– Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (d. 1975)
– Leopold Trepper, Soviet spy (d. 1982)
– Ralph Bellamy, American actor (d. 1991)
– Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (d. 1969)
– Tamás Lossonczy, Hungarian painter (d. 2009)
– Ellen Church, American stewardess (d. 1965)
– J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (d. 1960)
– Jean Paul Lemieux, Quebec painter (d. 1990)