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Historical Event(s)
– The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
– Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, US, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325 ft.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dog in Chinese astrology.
– Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
– Robert Falcon Scott’s South Pole expedition leaves England.
– The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
– Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler’s rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter)
– Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
– Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
– An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
Who Were Born On ?
– Georg Gaßmann, German politician (d. 1987)
– John W. Campbell, American publisher and editor (d. 1971)
– Ray McKinley, American jazz drummer and bandleader (d. 1995)
– Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (d. 1987)
– Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (d. 1993)
– Vivien Thomas, African American surgeon (d. 1985)
– Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (d. 1986)
– Richard Hurndall, British actor (d. 1984)
– Fritz Leiber, American writer (d. 1992)