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Historical Event(s)
– Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.
– 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.
– After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
– The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
– 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 Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.
– The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
– In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
– Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
Who Were Born On ?
– Pat Peppler, American pro football coach and executive
– Marjorie Cameron, American writer, painter, actress and occultist (d. 1995)
– Len Shackleton, English former footballer (d. 2000)
– Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
– Janis Paige, American actress
– Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate
– Frank J. Lynch, American jurist and state legislator (d. 1987)
– Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist
– Salil Chowdhury, Indian music composer, poet, writer, dramatist and filmmaker (d. 1995)
– Eamonn Andrews, Irish-born television presenter (d. 1987)