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Historical Event(s)
– British India officially adopts the Indian Standard Time.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
– Edouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
– The Courrières mine disaster, Europe’s worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern France.
– Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, dies.
– An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
– The flag of Sweden is adopted.
– 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 wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
Who Were Born On ?
– Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980)
– Boris Papandopulo, Croatian composer and conductor (d. 1991)
– William Joyce, Irish fascist (d. 1946)
– Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer (d. 2001)
– Buddhadasa, Thai Bhikkhu and philosopher (d. 1993)
– Harold Spina, American composer (d. 1997)
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American writer, wife of Charles Lindbergh (d. 2001)
– Friz Freleng, American movie animator (d. 1995)
– Soichiro Honda, Japanese automobile pioneer (d. 1991)
– Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (d. 1968)