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Historical Event(s)
– Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
– An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
– Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
– Al Ahly was founded.
– Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
– The start of first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
– Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
– Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
– A group of 239 coal miners die during a mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
Who Were Born On ?
– Cesar Romero, American actor (d. 1994)
– Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)
– Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe Officer (d. 1994)
– François “Papa Doc” Duvalier, Haitian dictator (d. 1971)
– Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
– Isabel Jewell, American actress (d. 1972)
– Howard W. Hunter, American religious leader (d. 1995)
– Burgess Meredith, American actor (d. 1997)
– Jacques Barzun, French-born historian and author
– Rumer Godden, English writer (d. 1998)