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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Horse in Chinese astrology.
– Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
– The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
– U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
– In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first Football World Cup.
– The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
– 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
– Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
– Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
– Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a posse of 200, following a botched bank robbery in Clinton, Indiana.
Who Were Born On ?
– James Deetz, American anthropologist (d. 2000)
– Alan Oppenheimer, American actor and voice actor
– Heather Harper, Irish singer
– Junior Kimbrough, American blues guitarist and vocalist (d. 1998)
– Terry Nation, Welsh novelist and screenwriter (d. 1997)
– John Morgan, Welsh-born Canadian comedian (d. 2004)
– Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (d. 1966)
– Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (d. 1996)
– Néstor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (d. 1992)
– Tsutomu Seki, Japanese astronomer