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Historical Event(s)
– Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
– The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
– Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
– Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen riot and burn down Luton Town Hall.
– The American Legion is incorporated.
– King George V of the United Kingdom proclaims Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day). The idea is first suggested by Edward George Honey.
– Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)
– Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee.
Who Were Born On ?
– Giulio Andreotti, Italian politician
– Lawrence Tierney, American actor (d. 2002)
– Frank Akins, American football player (d. 1993)
– Lloyd Richards, American theatre director (d. 2006)
– Nehemiah Persoff, American actor
– Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (d. 2010)
– Dayton Allen, American actor and comedian (d. 2004)
– Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003)
– Warren Stevens, American actor
– Veronica Lake, American actress (d. 1973)