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Historical Event(s)
– The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
– The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
– The Negro National League is formed.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Monkey in Chinese astrology.
– The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.
– During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to first coin the political phrase “smoke-filled room”.
– The congress of the Communist Party of Bukhara opens. The congress would call for armed revolution.
– The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
– Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
– Sir Percy Cox lands in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq.
Who Were Born On ?
– George Rose, British music hall entertainer (d. 1988)
– Paul Gérin-Lajoie, Canadian politician
– Sloan Wilson, American author (d. 2003)
– Robert Clarke, American actor d. 2005
– Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (d. 1981)
– P. D. James, English novelist
– Christopher Robin Milne, inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories (d. 1996)
– Liz Carpenter, American feminist writer (d. 2010)
– Vaclav Neumann, Czech conductor, violinist and viola player (d. 1995)
– Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian writer (d. 1977)