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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rooster in Chinese astrology.
– Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
– Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China.
– Black Friday: mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England.
– West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to issues surrounding its enforcement.
– Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
– The Communist Party of China is founded.
– The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali (leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire) as King Faisal I of Iraq.
– The Soviet republics of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia sign the Treaty of Kars with the Grand National Assembly of Turkey to establish the contemporary borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
– President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting President against lynching in the deep south.
Who Were Born On ?
– Elmer Valo, American baseball player (d. 1998)
– Al Jaffee, American cartoonist
– Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish priest (d. 1987)
– Jean Richard, French actor (d. 2001)
– Jean Shepherd, American writer, radio and TV personality and actor (d. 1999)
– Jack Wilson, Australian cricketer (d. 1985)
– Gene Roland, jazz composer, arranger and musician (d. 1982)
– John McHale, American baseball player and executive (d. 2008)
– Joseph Lowery, American Civil rights movement leader
– Jim Garrison, American attorney and judge (d. 1992)