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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Tiger in Chinese astrology.
– Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
– Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.
– Spanish tonadilla singer Raquel Meller appears on the cover of Time magazine.
– UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends.
– The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
– In New York City, the Warner Brothers’ Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
– Gold is discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
– J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.
– Emperor Taishō of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa.
Who Were Born On ?
– Richard Verreau, French-Canadian tenor (d. 2005)
– George Martin, British record producer
– Verne Gagne, American wrestler
– Prince Dimitri Romanov, Russian prince, philanthropist and author
– Victor Bouchard, Quebec pianist and composer (d. 2011)
– Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997)
– Margaret Laurence, Canadian writer (d. 1987)
– Walter “Killer” Kowalski (wrestler) Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2008)
– James McCracken, American tenor (d. 1988)