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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dog in Chinese astrology.
– A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
– The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
– At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded – the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
– France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge “freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes”.
– the draft of The British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; and which came into effect on 26 September 1923.
– The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City.
– March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
– The BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
– Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
Who Were Born On ?
– Billy Liddell, Scottish Footballer (d. 2001)
– Les Baxter, American musician and composer (d. 1996)
– Elmer Bernstein, American composer (d. 2004)
– John Braine, British novelist (d. 1986)
– Etienne Leroux, Afrikaans author, (d. 1989)
– Robin Olds, American World War II and Vietnam War ace fighter pilot (d. 2007)
– Jason Robards, American actor (d. 2000)
– Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate
– Grace Paley, American writer (d. 2007)
– Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990)