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Historical Event(s)
– World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Snake in Chinese astrology.
– World War I: The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
– World War I: President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
– Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon, killing 101 people and injuring 689.
– Alexander I becomes king of Greece.
– World War I: Battle of Messines – Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.
– Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a “temporary” measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
– The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
– World War I: USS Jacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine ship SM.
Who Were Born On ?
– Isuzu Yamada, Japanese actress
– Laszlo Szabo, Hungarian chess player (d. 1998)
– Vera Lynn, English actress and singer
– John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
– Leonora Carrington, British-born surrealist painter
– Maya Deren, Ukraine-born American avant-garde filmmaker (d. 1961)
– Katherine Rawls, American swimming champion (d. 1982)
– Jack Lynch, Irish politician (d. 1999)
– Henry Ford II, American industrialist (d. 1987)
– Jan Sedivka, Czech-Australian violinist (d. 2009)