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Historical Event(s)
– The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Horse in Chinese astrology.
– 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.
– The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
– BBC Radio announces that there is no news on that day.
– Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
– Australian cricketer Don Bradman scores a world record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a Test match against England.
– Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur Championship to complete the Grand Slam of golf. The old structure of the grand slam was the U.S. Open, British Open, U.S. Amateur, and British Amateur.
– Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Sōka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.
– 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 ?
– Kurt Biedenkopf, German politician
– Bob Grim, American baseball player (d. 1996)
– Innes Ireland, Scottish racing driver (d. 1993)
– Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto
– Liviu Librescu, Israeli professor, killed in the Virginia Tech massacre (d. 2007)
– P. B. Sreenivas, Indian Play-back singer
– Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (d. 1966)
– Yves Chauvin, French chemist, Nobel laureate
– Joe DeNardo, Pittsburgh Meteorologist
– Robert Prosky, American actor (d. 2008)