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Historical Event(s)
– SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
– Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
– Traian Vuia flies a heavier-than-air aircraft for 20 meters at 1 meter altitude.
– The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
– The Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.
– Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
– The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
– A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
– The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
Who Were Born On ?
– Erik Rhodes, American actor (d. 1990)
– Avery Fisher, American audio specialist (d. 1994)
– Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer (d. 2009)
– Pee Wee Russell, American musician (d. 1969)
– Pran Nath Thapar, Indian military officer (d. 1975)
– Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician (d. 1992)
– William H. Tunner, American general (d. 1983)
– Albert Sabin, American polio researcher (d. 1993)
– Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian religious figure (d. 1949)
– Earle Cabell, American politician (d. 1975)