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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
– The British Labour Party is organised.
– Edouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
– Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
– Traian Vuia flies a heavier-than-air aircraft for 20 meters at 1 meter altitude.
– The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
– Central Railway Station, Sydney opens.
– The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
– U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
– The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, which later laid down the foundations of Pakistan.
Who Were Born On ?
– Diana Wynyard, British actress (d. 1964)
– Humayun Kabir, Indian educationist and politician (d. 1969)
– William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1997)
– Irena Iłłakowicz, Polish agent of Intelligence (d. 1943)
– John Huston, American director (d. 1987)
– Max Delbrück, German biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
– Hermann Fegelein, German Nazi official and brother-in-law to Adolf Hitler (d. 1945)
– Emmanuel Kriaras, Greek philologist and lexicographer
– John Dickson Carr, American author of detective fiction (d. 1977)