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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Ox in Chinese astrology.
– Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity.
– Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
– The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek, is established.
– Sir Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to break the 150 mph land barrier at Pendine Sands in Wales. He drove a Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph.
– John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
– An Anti-French uprising in French-occupied Damascus, Syria. (All French inhabitants flee the city.)
– John Logie Baird creates Britain’s first television transmitter.
– World War I aftermath: The final Locarno Treaty is signed in London, establishing post-war territorial settlements.
– Turkey adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
Who Were Born On ?
– Abdul Kardar, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1996)
– Louison Bobet, French cyclist (d. 1983)
– Emmett Williams, American poet (d. 2007)
– Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (d. 2006)
– Guy Provost, French Canadian actor (d. 2004)
– Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000)
– Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
– Ross McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 1975)
– James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright and author (d. 1989)
– Laura Ashley, British designer (d. 1985)