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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Tiger in Chinese astrology.
– Ship HMHS, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
– 19 men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miner’s strike.
– Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
– World War I: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after Serbia rejects the conditions of an ultimatum sent by Austria on July 23 following the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
– World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Helgoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
– World War I: the United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit.
– World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
– The First Battle of Ypres begins.
– World War I: the first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.
Who Were Born On ?
– Alfred Andersch, German writer (d. 1980)
– Bill Veeck, American baseball executive (d. 1986)
– Tex Beneke, American musician and band leader (d. 2000)
– Jacques Dufilho, French comedian (d. 2005)
– Lilli Palmer, German-born actress (d. 1986)
– E.G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
– Aribert Heim, Austrian physician (d. 1992)
– Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 1990)
– Anna Wing, English actress
– Charles Breijer, Dutch photographer (d. 2011)