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Historical Event(s)
– An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
– Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city.
– Norway adopts female suffrage.
– Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
– Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, first African-American Orthodox priest, “Priest-Apostolic” to America and the West Indies.
– In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
– The schooner Thomas W. Lawson runs aground and founders near the Hellweather’s Reef within the Scilly Isles in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
– A group of 239 coal miners die during a mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
– The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in in Iquique, Chile.
Who Were Born On ?
– W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973)
– Norrey Ford (aka Jill Christian and Christian Walford), British writer (d. 1985)
– Eddie Quillan, American actor (d. 1990)
– Harold Stassen, American Presidential candidate (d. 2001)
– Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1995)
– Wade Mainer, American singer and banjoist
– Lincoln Stedman, American actor d. 1948
– Eric Shipton, British mountaineer (d. 1977)
– Lev Oborin, Russian pianist (d. 1974)
– Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)