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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.
– Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
– The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
– İstiklal Marşı was adopted in TBMM(Turkish grand national assembly).
– The second Peace of Riga between Poland and Soviet Union.
– Black Friday: mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England.
– West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to issues surrounding its enforcement.
– The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
– Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.
– The first Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe ‘Fatty’Arbuckle ends in a hung jury.
Who Were Born On ?
– Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (d. 2006)
– Carol Channing, American actress and singer
– Jean Behra, French race car driver (d. 1959)
– Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (d. 2003)
– Rowland Evans, American journalist (d. 2001)
– Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor (d. 2007)
– Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (d. 2008)
– John Herbert Chapman, British physicist (d. 1979)
– Leo Penn, American film director (d. 1998)
– Joseph Lowery, American Civil rights movement leader