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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dragon in Chinese astrology.
– Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship ship .
– The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
– Start of the Battle of Delville Wood as an action within the Battle of the Somme, which was to last until 3 September 1916.
– World War I: Liberia declares war on Germany.
– Romania declares war against Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations.
– Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
– Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu.
– World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of Staff Erich Von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 casualties.
– World War I: Battle of Magdhaba – Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula.
Who Were Born On ?
– Arnoldo Foà, Italian actor
– Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1998)
– Hans Eysenck, German-born psychologist (d. 1997)
– Irving Wallace, American novelist (d. 1990)
– Vic Perrin, American actor (d. 1989)
– Sif Ruud, Swedish actress
– Al Killian, American jazz trumpet player and occasional bandleader (d. 2007)
– Forrest J. Ackerman, American writer (d. 2008)
– Chick Hearn, American sportscaster (d. 2002)
– Mary Lilian Baels, Princess of Rethy, Belgium (d. 2002)