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Historical Event(s)
– The United Kingdom’s House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.
– The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Ox in Chinese astrology.
– Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
– Igor Stravinsky’s ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, provoking a riot.
– American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
– Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett’s Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.
– President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
– The Balkan States signs an armistice at Bucharest.
– First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
Who Were Born On ?
– Don Hutson, American football player (d. 1997)
– Mel Allen, American sports reporter (d. 1996)
– John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952)
– Smaro Stefanidou, Greek actress (d. 2010)
– Len Butterfield, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999)
– John Collins, jazz guitarist (d. 2001)
– Alice Chetwynd Ley, British romance writer (d. 2004)
– Joe Medicine Crow, American tribal historian and anthropologist
– Guy Green, English film director (d. 2005)
– Dan Dailey, American actor (d. 1978)