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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.
– The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
– The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
– The Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established.
– The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
– The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
– The Hollywood Bowl opens.
– The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Greeks.
– Hungary is admitted to League of Nations.
– The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
Who Were Born On ?
– James Noble, American actor
– Michael Ainsworth, British cricketer (d. 1978)
– Károly Reich, Hungarian illustrator (d. 1988)
– Irving R. Levine, American journalist (d. 2009)
– Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (d. 1979)
– Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate
– Michel Galabru, French actor
– Butch van Breda Kolff, American basketball coach (d. 2007)
– Al Hirt, American trumpeter (d. 1999)
– Paul Picerni, American actor (d. 2011)