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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rooster in Chinese astrology.
– Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup
– Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
– Serbian King Alexander I proclaimed the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
– British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only 4 survive.
– A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500-600 people.
– The Soviet republics of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia sign the Treaty of Kars with the Grand National Assembly of Turkey to establish the contemporary borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
– The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the RSFSR.
– President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting President against lynching in the deep south.
– The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25 game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ástor Piazzolla, Argentine composer (d. 1992)
– Walter Neugebauer, Croatian comic book author (d. 1992)
– Jean-Marie Balestre, French motorsports official (FIA) (d. 2008)
– Warren Spahn, American baseball player (d. 2003)
– Suharto, President of Indonesia (d. 2008)
– Manitas de Plata, French guitarist
– John Herbert Chapman, British physicist (d. 1979)
– Jaroslav Drobný, Czech-Egyptian-British tennis player (d. 2001)
– Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (d. 1986)
– John W. Peterson, American songwriter (d. 2006)