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Historical Event(s)
– The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.
– Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
– World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
– World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins—The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
– 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.
– World War I: end of First Battle of the Isonzo.
– RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.
– A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 mph.
Who Were Born On ?
– Leslie H. Martinson, American television and film director.
– Robert Hofstadter, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1990)
– Vasily Zaitsev, Soviet World War II figure (d. 1991)
– “Gorgeous” George Wagner, American professional wrestler (d. 1963)
– Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born American actor (d. 2001)
– Donald Mills, American singer (Mills Brothers) (d. 1999)
– Josef Priller, German fighter pilot (d. 1961)
– Michael Kidd, American choreographer (d. 2007)
– Ivan M. Niven, Canadian mathematician (d. 1999)
– Billy Strayhorn, American musician and composer (d. 1967)