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Historical Event(s)
– First live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
– German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
– First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
– The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins.
– The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
– The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
– The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
– The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
– The Vietnamese Nationalist Party is founded.
Who Were Born On ?
– Lynn Cartwright, American actress (d. 2004)
– Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999)
– Michael Constantine, American actor
– Herbert Lichtenfeld, German author and playwright (d. 2001)
– Gordon Scott, American actor (d. 2007)
– César Milstein, Argentine scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
– Fritz Wintersteller, Austrian mountaineer who made the first ascent of Broad Peak
– Barbara Cook, American singer and actress
– Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese computer game executive
– Guy Davenport, American author and scholar (d. 2005)