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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Snake in Chinese astrology.
– The U.S. government releases the unencrypted text of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.
– Batangas is formally founded as one of the Philippines’s earliest encomiendas.
– The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
– World War I: The Battle of Arras – the battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.
– The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
– The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
– St. Tikhon of Moscow is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
– Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.
– World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins – British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ilya Prigogine, Russian scientist Nobel Laureate (d. 2003)
– Robert Merrill, American baritone (d. 2004)
– Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000)
– Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player (d. 1986)
– Ewen Solon, New Zealand actor (d.1985)
– Don Starr, American-born actor (d. 2005)
– William T. Orr, American television producer (d. 2002)
– Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (d. 1977)
– Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., American historian and political commentator (d. 2007)
– Robert Sterling, American actor (d. 2006)