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Historical Event(s)
– Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Horse in Chinese astrology.
– The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
– Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
– A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
– The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed in Poland.
– The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, Ontario and Washington, DC) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
– Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
– The Kingdom of Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
– Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne.
Who Were Born On ?
– Gladys Noon Spellman, American politician (d. 1988)
– Clifton Hillegass, American publisher (d. 2001)
– Stafford Repp, American actor (d. 1974)
– Guadalupe “Pita” Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000)
– Iceberg Slim, American author (d. 1992)
– Cisco Houston, American folk singer (d. 1961)
– Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
– Russel Kirk, American author and political theorist (d. 1994)
– Billy Graham, American evangelist
– Anne Gwynne, American actress (d. 2003)