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Historical Event(s)
– Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Pig in Chinese astrology.
– The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
– Parks Canada, the world’s first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
– President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
– The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
– Russian Premier Peter Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
– White Star Line’s RMS Olympic collides with british warship HMS Hawke.
– Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.
– “Jana Gana Mana,” the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.
Who Were Born On ?
– José María Arguedas, Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist (d. 1969).
– Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani Urdu poet, Lenin Peace Prize winner (d. 1984)
– Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (d. 1995)
– Lester Rodney, American journalist (d. 2009)
– Georges Pompidou, French politician (d. 1974)
– Edward Shackleton, English explorer (d. 1994)
– Cantinflas, Mexican actor (d. 1993)
– Harry Danning, American baseball player (d. 2004)
– Paul Henning, American producer and writer (d. 2005)
– Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)