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Historical Event(s)
– Alcatraz Island becomes a United States federal prison.
– The Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dog in Chinese astrology.
– The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund.
– The “Surgeon’s Photograph”, the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
– An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
– Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
– The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.
– In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead by Leonid Nikolayev at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad.
– Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the last time.
Who Were Born On ?
– Bob Shane, American folk singer (The Kingston Trio)
– Joyce Van Patten, American actress
– Vladimir Posner, Russian journalist
– Mikel Laboa, Spanish Basque singer and songwriter (d. 2008)
– Corey Allen, American filmmaker and actor (d. 2010)
– Chandu Borde, former Indian cricketer
– Mary Bauermeister, German artist
– Chick Willis, American blues singer
– Claude Jarman Jr., American actor
– Geoff Stephens, British songwriter