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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 USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
– The first Aggie Muster is held as a remembrance for fellow Texas A&M graduates who had died in the previous year.
– Herrin massacre: 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
– The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
– 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 Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Greeks.
– The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
– A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country’s annexation to the South African Union.
– The BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
Who Were Born On ?
– Paul Scofield, English actor (d. 2008)
– Michael Bentine, British comedian (d. 1996)
– Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1990)
– Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor
– Richard Diebenkorn, American artist (d. 1993)
– J. D. Cannon, American actor (d. 2005)
– Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)
– Michael Vale, American actor (d. 2005)
– Sammy Benskin, African American pianist and bandleader (d. 1992)
– María Casares, Spanish-born actress (d. 1996)