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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.
– Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity.
– Scopes Trial: serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
– Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
– Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in the Toronto Arena.
– The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek, is established.
– Sir Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to break the 150 mph land barrier at Pendine Sands in Wales. He drove a Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph.
– A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India
– Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first “super-spy” of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
– The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee as WSM Barn Dance.
Who Were Born On ?
– T. John Lesinski, Lieutenant Governor of Michigan
– Ali Hassan Mwinyi, President of Tanzania
– June Lockhart, American actress
– Cara Williams, American actress
– Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000)
– Brian Aldiss, English writer
– Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (d. 1958)
– Michel Bouquet, Franch actor
– Sammy Davis Jr., American actor and singer (d. 1990)
– Jean Byron, American actress (d. 2006)