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Historical Event(s)
– Ernest Shackleton’s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
– United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish-American War.
– Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
– Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
– Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
– The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.
– Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover) in 37 minutes.
– Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.
– New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signed the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.
Who Were Born On ?
– Victor Borge, Danish entertainer (d. 2000)
– Frank Albertson, American actor (d. 1964)
– Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American director (d. 1993)
– John Fante, American novelist (d. 1983)
– William Pereira, American architect (d. 1985)
– Fred Perry, British former tennis player (d. 1995)
– Sir Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1994)
– Eric Rowan, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1952 (d. 1993)
– Herbert “Herblock” Block, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
– Karen Morley, American actress (d. 2003)