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Historical Event(s)
– 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: 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.
– Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the continental US during the 20th century.
– Foundation of the British Women’s Institute.
– Militia officer Henry Pedris executed by firing squad at Colombo, Ceylon - an act widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice by the British colonial authorities.
– World War I: Battle of Sari Bair – the Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
– A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 mph.
– Parris Island is officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
Who Were Born On ?
– Alan Watts, English writer/philosopher (d. 1973)
– Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (d. 1984)
– Patrick Leigh Fermor, English author
– Gerard McLarnon, Irish playwright (d. 1997)
– Donald Mills, American singer (Mills Brothers) (d. 1999)
– Peter Copley, British actor (d. 2008)
– Christopher Mayhew, British politician (d. 1997)
– Ethel Rosenberg, Soviet spy, (d. 1953)
– Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician
– Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers (d. 2007)