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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rooster in Chinese astrology.
– The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
– The Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution that will end Prohibition in the United States.
– Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida’s electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
– The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment.
– First flight over Mount Everest, a British expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston
– Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
– The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”
– Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
– Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment (this overturned the 18th Amendment which had made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol illegal in the United States).
Who Were Born On ?
– Norman Yemm, Australian actor
– Wayne Rogers, American actor
– Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor
– Christian Ferras, French violinist (d. 1982)
– Edward Brandt, American doctor and public health official (d. 2007)
– Doug Sanders, American golfer
– Joycelyn Elders, American physician, 15th Surgeon General of the United States
– Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun (d. 1985)
– Amartya Sen, Indian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
– Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate