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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
– 32 Shriners are killed when their chartered train derails at a switch near Surf Depot in Lompoc, California.
– Norway adopts female suffrage.
– Sir Robert Baden Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9, 1907, and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.
– The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
– McKinley National Memorial, final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
– Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de Garcia, Sonora by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers away before it can explode.
– In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
– King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
– The Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world
Who Were Born On ?
– Ray Milland, British actor (d. 1986)
– Felix de Weldon, Austrian-born sculptor (d. 2003)
– Freddie Spencer Chapman, British army officer (d. 1971)
– John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979)
– Frithjof Schuon, Swiss metaphysician, poet, and painter (d. 1998)
– Eric Shipton, British mountaineer (d. 1977)
– Mary Hamman, American writer (d. 1984)
– Loren Eiseley, American anthropologist (d. 1977)
– Leon Askin, Austrian actor (d. 2005)
– Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Indian poet (d. 2003)