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Historical Event(s)
– The United Kingdom’s House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.
– 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.
– The Armory Show opens in New York City, displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.
– King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
– Natives’ Land Act in South Africa implemented.
– President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
– Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across United States.
– Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
– The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve.
Who Were Born On ?
– Betty Field, American actress (d. 1973)
– Taos Amrouche, Algerian writer and singer (d. 1976)
– Stewart Granger, English film actor (d. 1993)
– Ruth Fernández, Puerto Rican singer
– Wols, German painter (d. 1951)
– Harry Wismer, American sports team owner (d. 1967)
– Pinetop Perkins, American blues pianist (d. 2011)
– Noah Beery, Jr., American actor (d. 1994)
– Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
– Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (d. 1973)