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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Monkey in Chinese astrology.
– Comedian Jack Benny’s radio show airs for the first time.
– Ten weeks after his abduction Charles Jr., the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs’ home.
– 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.
– A bloodless Revolution instigated by the People’s Party ends the absolute power of King Prajadhipok of Siam (now Thailand).
– Great Depression: in Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans.
– A 5.1 kg chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
– Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the “Depressed Classes” (Untouchables).
– Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of Greece.
Who Were Born On ?
– Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (d. 1975)
– Billie Whitelaw, English actress
– Otto Schily, German politician
– Meir Kahane, American founder of the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
– Sirikit, Queen consort of Thailand, wife of Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX)
– Lakis Petropoulos, Greek footballer (d. 1996)
– Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer and dissident
– Dottie West, American singer (d. 1991)
– Richard Mulligan, American actor (d. 2000)
– Ellen Burstyn, American actress