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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
– Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos.
– Edouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
– Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
– Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
– Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.
– Cunard Line’s RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
– The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged.
– U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation’s first National Monument.
– Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France.
Who Were Born On ?
– Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
– Jean Sablon, French singer (d. 1994)
– Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (d. 2005)
– Anton Karas, Austrian zither player (d. 1985)
– Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984)
– Friz Freleng, American movie animator (d. 1995)
– John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
– Hannah Arendt, German political theorist and writer (d. 1975)
– Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant (d. 1945)
– John Dickson Carr, American author of detective fiction (d. 1977)