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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Dragon in Chinese astrology.
– Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
– Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
– Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
– Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
– The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replacing the version of the Arabic alphabet previously used, comes into force in Turkey.
– SS Vestris sinks approximately 200 mi off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.
– The RNLI Lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17 man crew.
– The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
– Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
Who Were Born On ?
– Desmond Morris, British anthropologist
– Andrew Greeley, American priest and novelist
– Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish populariser environmentalist (d. 1980)
– Leah Rabin, widow of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (d. 2000)
– Eugene M. Shoemaker, American planetary scientist (d. 1997)
– Vince Edwards, American actor (d. 1996)
– Richard G. Scott, LDS Apostle
– Jerry Bock, American musical theatre composer (d. 2010)
– Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (d. 1980)
– Emily McLaughlin, American actress (d. 1991)