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Historical Event(s)
– For the first time, a ball is dropped in New York, New York’s Times Square to signify the start of the New Year at midnight.
– The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
– New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
– 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.
– Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
– SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
– Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris.
– Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two
Who Were Born On ?
– Thomas Shaw, American musician (d. 1977)
– Masaru Ibuka, Japanese industrialist (d. 1997)
– Lita Grey, American actress (d. 1995)
– Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d. 1989)
– Julie Campbell Tatham, American writer (d. 1999)
– Billy Werber, American baseball player (d. 2009)
– Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (d. 1997)
– Torgny Torgnysson Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (d. 1999)
– John Gould, American humorist, essayist, and columnist (d. 2003)
– Józef Rotblat, Polish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)