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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 Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
– Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
– Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against British oppression in India.
– Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
– The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States’ use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
– The first drive-in theater opens in Pennsauken, New Jersey, United States.
– Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
– 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 ?
– Richard Riley, American politician
– Chita Rivera, Puerto Rican actress and dancer
– Miro Steržaj, Slovenian 9-pin bowler
– Charles Wilson, American politician (d. 2010)
– Christian Ferras, French violinist (d. 1982)
– Bob Shaw, baseball player
– Doug Sanders, American golfer
– Charlie Hodge, French Canadian ice hockey player
– Ben Cooper, American actor
– Jacques Godbout, French Canadian novelist, journalist and filmmaker