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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
– Governor of Kentucky William Goebel dies of wound sustained in an assassination attempt three days earlier in Frankfort, Kentucky.
– Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
– The Scofield mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
– Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
– The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
– Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
– Boxer Rebellion: The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
– Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
– Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appointed Sir William Lyne as premier of the new state New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.
Who Were Born On ?
– Donald J. Russell, North American railroad executive (d. 1985)
– Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (d. 1980)
– Ivan Ivanov-Vano Soviet animator and Russian animation director (d. 1987)
– Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (d. 1973)
– Heinrich Müller, head of the Gestapo (disappeared in 1945)
– Walter Rehberg, Swiss concert pianist, composer and writer (d. 1957)
– Catherine Dale Owen, American actress (d. 1965)
– James Hilton, English novelist (d. 1954)
– Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (d. 1976)
– Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1967)