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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Ox in Chinese astrology.
– Pink’s War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
– The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
– Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
– Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity.
– May 30 Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shot 13 protesting workers to death.
– Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called “Monkey Trial” begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
– Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out.
– An Anti-French uprising in French-occupied Damascus, Syria. (All French inhabitants flee the city.)
– John Logie Baird creates Britain’s first television transmitter.
Who Were Born On ?
– Grant Tinker, American television executive
– Elaine Stritch, American actress
– Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (d. 2005)
– Thomas Joseph Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2001)
– Doc Pomus, American blues singer/songwriter (d. 1991)
– Jerry Paris, American actor (d. 1986)
– Seymour Cray, American computer scientist (d. 1996)
– Lenny Bruce, American comedian (d. 1966)
– Jan Wolkers, Dutch author (d. 2007)
– Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (d. 1980)