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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.
– 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
– Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
– Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
– The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty eight years.
– The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
– Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.
– 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
– British Airship R101 crashes in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
– 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 ?
– Vic Tayback, American actor (d. 1990)
– Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel laureate
– Walter Bonatti, Italian mountaineer
– Carlos Menem, Argentine politician, 50th President of Argentina
– Burt Kwouk, English actor
– Keshubhai Patel, Former Chief Minister of the Western State of Gujarat in India
– Noel Harford, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1981)
– Sehba Akhtar, Pakistani poet (d. 1996)
– J.P. Richardson, The Big Bopper, American singer (d. 1959)
– G. Gordon Liddy, American Watergate operative and talk radio host