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Historical Event(s)
– President Woodrow Wilson announces his “Fourteen Points” for the aftermath of World War I.
– A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
– Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
– British women over the age of 30 get the right to vote.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Horse in Chinese astrology.
– First victory of Red Army over the Kaiser’s German troops near Narva and Pskov. In honor of this victory, the date is celebrated from 1923 onward as “Red Army Day”; it is renamed Defender of the Fatherland Day after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, and is colloquially known as “Men’s Day”.
– Great train wreck of 1918: in Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
– The Japanese Imperial Navy battleship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.
– World War I: In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
– World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
Who Were Born On ?
– Harry Corbett, English puppeteer (Sooty) (d. 1989)
– Janet Waldo, American actress
– Punch Imlach, Canadian hockey coach and general manager (d. 1987)
– Stafford Repp, American actor (d. 1974)
– Jack Paar, American television host (d. 2004)
– Ben Johnson, American actor (d. 1996)
– Jerome Karle, American chemist, Nobel laureate
– Nelson Mandela, South African politician, President (1994-1999); Nobel Peace Prize laureate
– Frederick Sanger, English chemist, two-time Nobel Laureate
– Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, Nobel laureate (d. 1984)