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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.
– The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed in Gjirokastër, by the Greeks living in southern Albania.
– The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving definite status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
– In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
– World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
– World War I: the United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit.
– World War I: Battle of Stalluponen – The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Pavel Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.
– World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
Who Were Born On ?
– Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1998)
– Bill Veeck, American baseball executive (d. 1986)
– Richard Denning, American actor (d. 1998)
– Bohumil Hrabal, Czech writer (d. 1997)
– Norman McLaren, Canadian film animator and director (d. 1987)
– Armen Alchian, American economist
– Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993)
– Parley Baer, American actor d, 2002
– Gail Kubik, American composer (d. 1984)
– Hans Hellmut Kirst, German author (d. 1989)