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Historical Event(s)
– For the first time, a ball is dropped in New York, New York’s Times Square to signify the start of the New Year at midnight.
– Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Monkey in Chinese astrology.
– Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
– Budi Utomo organization is founded in Dutch East Indies, beginning the Indonesian National Awakening.
– The University of the Philippines is established.
– SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
– The independence of Bulgaria is proclaimed.
– Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
– Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two
Who Were Born On ?
– Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (d. 1984)
– Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1972)
– Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970)
– Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (d. 1991)
– Jane Bolin, first African-American woman judge (d. 2007)
– Nedra Volz, American actress (d. 2003)
– Hugo Distler, German composer (d. 1942)
– Nelson A. Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States (d. 1979)
– Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian musician (d. 2003)
– Korczak Ziółkowski, American designer and sculptor of the Crazy Horse Memorial (d. 1982)