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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
– Al Ahly was founded.
– The London Underground’s Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
– The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi.
– Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
– Cunard Line’s RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
– McKinley National Memorial, final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
– Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
– King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
– A group of 239 coal miners die during a mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
Who Were Born On ?
– Georges-Émile Lapalme, French-Canadian politician (d. 1985)
– John Zachary Young, British biologist (d. 1997)
– Eddie Quillan, American actor (d. 1990)
– Augoustinos Kantiotes, Greek Orthodox bishop of Florina (d. 2010)
– Fairfield Porter, American painter (d. 1975)
– Tiny Bradshaw, American jazz and rhythm and blues bandleader, singer, composer, pianist, and drummer (d. 1958)
– Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician (d. 2001)
– Giovanna of Italy, tsaritsa of Bulgaria (d. 2000)
– Jacques Barzun, French-born historian and author
– Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean writer and poet (d. 2005)