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Historical Event(s)
– The Free Committee for a German Workers Peace, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded.
– Finnish Civil War: Rebels seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Horse in Chinese astrology.
– The last Carolina Parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
– Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
– Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I.
– Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
– Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
– President of Portugal Sidónio Pais is assassinated.
– Culmination of the Darwin Rebellion as some 1000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
Who Were Born On ?
– Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author (d. 2007)
– Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
– Sam Walton, American businessman (d. 1992)
– Stafford Repp, American actor (d. 1974)
– Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (d. 1985)
– Tom Drake, American actor (d. 1982)
– Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (d. 1974)
– Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (d. 2010)
– Claiborne Pell, American politician (d. 2009)
– Clinton Adams, American artist (d. 2002)