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Historical Event(s)
– The Free Committee for a German Workers Peace, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Horse in Chinese astrology.
– The USS Cyclops departs from Barbados and is never seen again, presumably lost with all hands in the Bermuda Triangle.
– World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
– Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
– World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
– World War I: In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
– Banat Republic is founded
– Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
– Flag of Estonia is raised atop the Pikk Hermann for the first time.
Who Were Born On ?
– Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (d. 1970)
– Marian McPartland, British jazz pianist
– Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer (d. 1995)
– Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)
– Guadalupe “Pita” Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000)
– Helmut Lent, German night fighter pilot (d. 1944)
– Willie Whitelaw, British politician, Deputy Prime Minister (d. 1999)
– Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist, Nobel laureate
– Rita Hayworth, American actress (d. 1987)
– Madeleine L'Engle, American author (d. 2007)