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Historical Event(s)
– King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Monkey in Chinese astrology.
– The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
– American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.
– Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
– University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded.
– Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
– The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2-0, clinching the World Series. It would be their last one to date.
– Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
– The Congress of Monastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
Who Were Born On ?
– Red Allen, American musician (d. 1967)
– Red Barber, American baseball announcer (d. 1992)
– Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (d. 1949)
– Sir Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)
– Percy Faith, Canadian composer and musician (d. 1976)
– Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist (d. 1968)
– Peter Anders, German operatic tenor (d. 1954)
– Joseph Mitchell, American writer (d. 1996)
– Claude Davey, Welsh rugby union footballer (d. 2001)