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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.
– Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
– Pink’s War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
– Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
– Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity.
– Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in the Toronto Arena.
– Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
– 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.
– An Anti-French uprising in French-occupied Damascus, Syria. (All French inhabitants flee the city.)
– Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas Primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King.
Who Were Born On ?
– Paul Newman, American actor, philanthropist, race car driver and race team owner (d. 2008)
– Dorothy Malone, American actress
– Sam Peckinpah, American director (d. 1984)
– Tony Hillerman, American writer (d. 2008)
– Jimmy Scott, American jazz singer
– Anne Meacham, American actress (d. 2006)
– Ted Lindsay, Canadian hockey player
– James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright and author (d. 1989)
– Kim Dae-jung, South Korean President, Nobel laureate (d. 2009)
– Jean Byron, American actress (d. 2006)