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Historical Event(s)
– Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
– Ukrainian-Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kiev, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.
– British women over the age of 30 get the right to vote.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Horse in Chinese astrology.
– The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
– On the orders of the Bolshevik Party carried out by Cheka, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
– World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
– The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, Ontario and Washington, DC) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
– Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne.
– The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins.
Who Were Born On ?
– Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (d. 1970)
– Janet Waldo, American actress
– Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author (d. 2007)
– Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager
– Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
– Edwin O'Connor, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1968)
– Harold “Buddy” Williams, Australian country singer (d. 1986)
– Claude Barma, French director and screenwriter (d. 1992)
– Billy Graham, American evangelist
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and Soviet dissident, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)