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Historical Event(s)
– The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begins operations.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Monkey in Chinese astrology.
– Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
– Helen Crummy MBE, Scottish community activist (d. 2011).
– Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
– The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty is signed. Soviet Russia recognises independent Lithuania.
– The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia’s authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
– The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
– Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
– King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I of Greece and a plebiscite.
Who Were Born On ?
– Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian United Nations Secretary General
– Oscar Brand, Canadian folk musicologist
– Daniel F. Galouye, science fiction author (d.1976)
– Douglass Wallop, American novelist and playwright (d. 1985)
– Dorothea Binz, Nazi war criminal (d. 1947)
– John Lewis, American jazz pianist and composer (Modern Jazz Quartet) (d. 2001)
– G. D. Spradlin, American actor (d. 2011)
– Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-born American cellist
– Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000)
– Frank Herbert, American writer (d. 1986)