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Historical Event(s)
– Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
– The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the second oldest military rifle still in official use.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
– 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.
– Cunard Line’s RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
– Guglielmo Marconi’s company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
– Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, that is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
– The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in in Iquique, Chile.
– The first New Year’s Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in New York, New York.
Who Were Born On ?
– Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)
– Norrey Ford (aka Jill Christian and Christian Walford), British writer (d. 1985)
– Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman (d. 1964)
– Rip Sewell, American baseball player (d. 1989)
– John Lehmann, English poet, editor, and publisher (d. 1987)
– Lester Lanin, American bandleader (d. 2004)
– William Wentworth, Australian politician (d. 2003)
– Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician (d. 2001)
– William Steig, American children’s book author (d. 2003)
– Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005)