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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.
– The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
– The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
– Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
– The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
– A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
– U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation’s first National Monument.
– The Canton Bulldogs-Massillon Tigers Betting Scandal, the first major scandal in professional American football.
– U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
– Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.
Who Were Born On ?
– Patsy Callighen, Canadian Hockey Player (d. 1964)
– T.H. White, British author (d. 1964)
– Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American film director (d. 2002)
– Estée Lauder, American entrepreneur (d. 2004)
– Anton Karas, Austrian zither player (d. 1985)
– Miklós Borsos, Hungarian sculptor (d. 1990)
– James Brooks, American painter (d. 1992)
– Alexander Gode, German-American linguist (d. 1970)
– Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (d. 2007)