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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
– Richard Strauss’ opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
– New Zealand’s worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SS Penguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
– The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
– Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
– The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
– Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
– Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.
– Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire.
– New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signed the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.
Who Were Born On ?
– Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (d. 1994)
– J. R. Simplot, American entrepreneur (d. 2008)
– Louis Hayward, British actor (d. 1985)
– Eddy Duchin, American pianist and bandleader (d. 1951)
– Nikolay Guryanov, Russian mystic and priest (d. 2002)
– Virginia Apgar, American physician and developer of the Apgar test (d. 1974)
– Bill Voce, England cricketer (d. 1984)
– Eduard Wirths, Nazi physician (d. 1945)
– Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
– Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (d. 1993)