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Historical Event(s)
– Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin. Sinn Féin adopts Ireland’s first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
– Kurt Eisner, German socialist, is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
– The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
– Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
– John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John’s, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
– U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
– 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 ?
– Edwin Newman, American broadcast journalist (d. 2010)
– Monte Irvin, American baseball player
– Roger Leger, Quebec ice hockey player (d. 1965)
– Georgia Gibbs, American singer (d. 2006)
– Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (d. 1990)
– Frank Piasecki, American aeronautical engineer (d. 2008)
– Frank Bourgholtzer, American television correspondent (d. 2010)
– Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian inventor
– Lil Green, American Blues Singer (d. 1954)
– Naushad Ali, Indian music director (d. 2006)