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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.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Monkey in Chinese astrology.
– American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.
– Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
– Mother’s Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
– Dutch football club Feyenoord was founded
– The Pravda newspaper is founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
– Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
– The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2-0, clinching the World Series. It would be their last one to date.
– A mine explosion in the mining town of Marianna, Pennsylvania kills 154.
Who Were Born On ?
– René Daumal, French writer (d. 1944)
– Buddy Ebsen, American actor and dancer (d. 2003)
– Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American memoirist (Cheaper by the Dozen) (d. 2006)
– Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989)
– Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Vietnamese politician
– Peter Anders, German operatic tenor (d. 1954)
– Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
– Richard Wright, American writer (d. 1960)
– Robert Lecourt, French politician and president of the European Court of Justice (d. 2004)
– Gustav Ernesaks, Estonian composer and conductor (d. 1993)