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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
– “Electric Theatre”, the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
– Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
– Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
– Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
– The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
– The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
– A statue of Joan of Arc is unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
– In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
– The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii.
Who Were Born On ?
– Langston Hughes African-American poet and author (d. 1967)
– Will Geer, American actor (d. 1978)
– Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
– Herman B Wells, American college president and chancellor of Indiana University (d. 2000)
– Ted Radcliffe, American baseball player and centenarian (d. 2005)
– Felix Wankel, German engineer and inventor (d. 1988)
– Giorgos Papasideris Greek musician (d. 1977)
– Strom Thurmond, American politician (d. 2003)
– Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (d. 1988)