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Historical Event(s)
– First live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
– Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
– The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris.
– The Bath School Disaster: forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
– The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
– The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
– Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
– Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
– The Brookings Institution, one of the United States’ oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
Who Were Born On ?
– Olof Palme, Swedish politician (d. 1986)
– June Brown, British actress
– Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1967)
– Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian-born footballer (d. 2002)
– Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist, Nobel laureate
– Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, French Canadian jurist
– Harlan Howard, American country music songwriter (d. 2002)
– Warne Marsh, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1987)
– Lee Grant, American actress
– William Labov, American linguist