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Historical Event(s)
– The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
– Second Boer War: Harry ‘Breaker’Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria.
– Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg.
– James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
– Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
– Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country’s first President.
– Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
– A statue of Joan of Arc is unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
– The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jane Ising, German-born wife of Ernst Ising
– John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
– Philippe de Rothschild, French race car driver and wine grower (d. 1988)
– George Murphy, American entertainer (d. 1992)
– Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American diplomat (d. 1985)
– Dutch Schultz, American organized crime figure (d. 1935)
– Lloyd Nolan, American actor (d. 1985)
– Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (d. 1963)
– Jack Sharkey, American boxer (d. 1994)
– Frances Bavier, American actress (d. 1989)