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Historical Event(s)
– The distress signal “CQD” is established only to be replaced two years later by “SOS”.
– The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
– 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.
– Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100 mph barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brille in Ostend, Belgium.
– The automobile tire chain is patented.
– Prince Albert, Saskatchewan was incorporated as a city.
– 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.
– The Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity is founded at the College of Charleston.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ray Bolger, American actor and dancer (d. 1987)
– Wolfe+585, Senior (alleged date), German-born American typesetter who has the longest personal name ever used (death year unknown)
– Paul Klipsch, American engineer (d. 2002)
– Odilo Globocnik, Austrian Nazi (d. 1945)
– Harry Martinson, Swedish author and poet Nobel laureate (d. 1978)
– Charles R. Drew, American surgeon,(d. 1950)
– Max Shachtman, American politician (d. 1972)
– Karl Plutus, Estonian jurist and centenarian (d. 2010)
– Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-born physicist (d. 1979)
– Moss Hart, American dramatist (d. 1961)