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Historical Event(s)
– An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
– Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
– World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
– World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
– William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson‘s Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States’handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
– The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
– A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 mph.
– US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in accident.
– Richard Strauss conducts the first performance of his tone poem Eine Alpensinfonie in Berlin.
Who Were Born On ?
– Phyllis Calvert, British actress (d. 2002)
– Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General and pilot of B-29 “Enola Gay” over Hiroshima (d. 2007)
– Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese military man (d. 1997)
– Martin Clemens, Scottish guerilla fighter (d. 2009)
– Alice Faye, American actress (d. 1998)
– Les Paul, American guitarist and inventor (d. 2009)
– Willie Dixon, American blues vocalist and record producer (d. 1992)
– Bruce R. McConkie, American Mormon apostle and writer (d. 1985)
– Franz Josef Strauß, German politician (d. 1988)
– Billy Daniels, American singer with big bands and solo (d. 1988)