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Historical Event(s)
– 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.
– Pluto is photographed for the first time but is not recognized as a planet.
– 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.
– World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
– Denmark amends its constitution to allow women’s suffrage.
– Lieutenant Kurt Wintgens achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized gun-equipped fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
– World War I: end of First Battle of the Isonzo.
– World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
Who Were Born On ?
– Henry Bumstead, American art director (d. 2006)
– Gerard McLarnon, Irish playwright (d. 1997)
– Sirimavo Bandaranaike, A Sri Lankan politician and the world’s first female head of government (d. 2000)
– Garrett Hardin, American ecologist (d. 2003)
– Herman Wouk, American writer
– Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (d. 1996)
– Fred Ball, American movie studio executive, actor, and the brother of comedienne Lucille Ball (d. 2007)
– Pete Newell, American basketball coach (d. 2008)
– Robert Strassburg, American composer (d. 2003)
– Franz Josef Strauß, German politician (d. 1988)