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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Ox in Chinese astrology.
– A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
– Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
– The Woolworth Building skyscraper in New York City is opened.
– New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
– Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran.
– Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
– Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.
– Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tōhoku University) becomes the first university in Japan to admit female students.
– The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
Who Were Born On ?
– Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (d. 2005)
– James Pike, American Episcopal bishop (d. 1969)
– Tommy Henrich, American baseball player (d. 2009)
– Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996)
– Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist (d. 2004)
– Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1979)
– Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (d. 2008)
– Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-born actress (d. 2005)
– Delmore Schwartz, American poet (d. 1966)
– Morton Gould, American composer (d. 1996)