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Historical Event(s)
– German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
– The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rat in Chinese astrology.
– Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
– Paramount Pictures is founded.
– Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
– Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the Portuguese First Republic in Chaves.
– While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech.
– First Balkan War: Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration “To the Serbian People”, as Serbia joins the war.
– First Balkan War: The Naval Battle of Elli takes place.
Who Were Born On ?
– Federico Borrell Garcia, Spanish Republican soldier (d. 1936)
– Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
– Edgar Tafel, American architect (d. 2011)
– Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (d. 1982)
– William Lederer, American writer (d. 2009)
– Per Imerslund, Norwegian writer (d. 1943)
– Erich Honecker, East German politician (d. 1994)
– Thomas C. Mann, American diplomat (d. 1999)
– Maj-Gen John Frost, British para commander (d. 1993)