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Historical Event(s)
– Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Monkey in Chinese astrology.
– The May 15 Incident: in an attempted Coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed.
– Lou Gehrig and teammate Tony Lazzeri hit four home runs in one game, and hit for the natural cycle, respectively. These two feats are both less common than a perfect game, which has occurred twenty one times in one hundred and twenty years.
– The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.
– The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution
– In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans, part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force, who attempt to march to the White House.
– Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
– The New York City Subway’s third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
– A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people.
Who Were Born On ?
– Brownie Ledbetter, American civil rights activist (d. 2010)
– Joe Zawinul, Austrian jazz composer and keyboardist (d. 2007)
– Natalie Babbitt, American author and illustrator of children’s books
– Meir Kahane, American founder of the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
– Howard Hodgkin, British painter
– Maurice Rabb, Jr., American ophthalmologist
– Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2002)
– Johnny Lytle, jazz vibraphonist and drummer (d. 1995)
– Fred Titmus, English cricketer (d. 2011)
– Inga Swenson, American actress