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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Ox in Chinese astrology.
– J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
– The Australian Army was formed.
– The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
– The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
– Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
– O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
– Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
– The U.S. Steel Recognition Strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
– Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John’s, Newfoundland.
Who Were Born On ?
– Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988)
– Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist (d. 1987)
– Stella Adler, American actress (d. 1992)
– Dwight Wilson, Canadian Soldier (d. 2007)
– Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist (d. 1971)
– László Németh, Hungarian writer (d. 1975)
– Luis Monti, Argentine-Italian footballer (d. 1983)
– Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1985)
– Stuart Symington, American politician (d. 1988)
– Hank Worden, American actor and rodeo cowboy (d. 1992)