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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Ox in Chinese astrology.
– A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
– Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
– The Woolworth Building skyscraper in New York City is opened.
– First Balkan War: the Treaty of London, 1913 is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.
– Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom’s worst coal mining accident, occurs, and it claims the lives of 439 miners.
– The Indianapolis Street Car Strike and subsequent riot begins.
– Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City.
– The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
– Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jean-Michel Atlan, French painter (d. 1960)
– Mary Leakey, British anthropologist (d. 1996)
– František Jílek, Czech conductor (d. 1993)
– Carlo L. Golino, American scholar (d. 1991)
– Stanford Moore, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1982)
– Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (d. 1971)
– Bảo Đại, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1997)
– Alekos Sakellarios, Greek writer and film director (d. 1991)
– Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army (d. 2002)
– Lou Jacobi, Canadian actor (d. 2009)