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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rat in Chinese astrology.
– Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
– Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
– First day of the Arab revolt in Palestine.
– Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover’s severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon becomes one of Japan’s most notorious scandals.
– The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
– The Jarrow March sets off for London.
– Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
– Mrs Wallis Simpson files for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
– Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
Who Were Born On ?
– Patrick Caulfield, British painter and printmaker (d. 2005)
– Jim Clark, OBE, Scottish racing driver (d. 1968)
– Nana Meskhidze, Georgian artist-painter (d. 1997)
– Geoffrey Shovelton, English opera singer
– Timothy Birdsall, English cartoonist (d. 1963)
– Charles Kimbrough, American actor
– Vern Harper, Canadian First Nations Cree Elder and veteran of the Korean War
– Emmett Chapman, jazz musician best known as the inventor of the Chapman Stick
– Václav Havel, President of the Czech Republic (d. 2011)
– Joachim Bißmeier, German actor