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Historical Event(s)
– The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Pig in Chinese astrology.
– The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 km away.
– During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
– Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
– Parks Canada, the world’s first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
– The United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
– Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
– An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
– The first transcontinental flight across the United States is completed. Calbraith Perry Rodgers began the flight on 17 September 1911, taking off from Sheepshead Bay NY.
Who Were Born On ?
– Leonard Woodcock, American labor union official and diplomat (d. 2001)
– Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967)
– Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2003)
– Bruno Beger, German anthropologist (d. 2009)
– Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete (d. 1956)
– Luther Terry, American Surgeon General (d. 1985)
– Nino Rota, Italian composer (d. 1979)
– Val Guest, English film director (d. 2006)
– Spike Jones, American comedian and musician (d. 1965)
– Josh Gibson, American baseball player (d. 1947)