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Historical Event(s)
– Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, US, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325 ft.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dog in Chinese astrology.
– Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
– Theodore Roosevelt made his The Man in the Arena speech.
– The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People’s Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
– Creation of the Union of South Africa.
– Aurel Vlaicu pilots a A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
– John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
– Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler’s rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter)
– The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
Who Were Born On ?
– G. N. Balasubramaniam, Indian Carnatic musician (d. 1960)
– Dizzy Dean, American baseball player (d. 1974)
– Norman Steenrod, American mathematician (d. 1971)
– Georges Vedel, French public law professor (d. 2002)
– Ken Lynch, American actor d. 1990
– Karl Kling, German race car driver (d. 2003)
– Gus Hall, American union organizer and head of the U.S. Communist Party (d. 2000)
– Jack Carson, Canadian actor (d. 1963)
– Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (d. 1944)
– Louis Prima, American musician (d. 1978)