Birthdays come every year, so why not make them special? 🎉 Original songs, trivia & facts await! Join us now and subscribe to the ultimate birthday channel! 🎂✨ (Sponsored)
Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dog in Chinese astrology.
– The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
– The SMS Zrinyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
– The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
– Aurel Vlaicu pilots a A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
– African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race riots across the United States.
– In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer’s disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
– The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
– The date of Thomas A. Davis’ opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
– Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
Who Were Born On ?
– Dorothy Janis, American silent film actress (d. 2010)
– Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (d. 1998)
– Queen Ingrid of Denmark (d. 2000)
– Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1949)
– Milt Hinton, American jazz bassist (d. 2000)
– Barbara Castle, British politician (d. 2002)
– Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (d. 1986)
– Eric Malpass, English novelist (d. 1996)
– Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper’s Magazine (d. 1991)
– Kurt Meyer, German SS officer (d. 1961)