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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Snake in Chinese astrology.
– Fascist Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
– RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
– Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
– Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
– The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse, “The Karnival Kid”, is released.
– The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
– JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
– Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
– U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
Who Were Born On ?
– Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottish-born American philosopher
– Věra Chytilová, Czech director
– James Schlesinger, American politician, 12th United States Secretary of Defense, 9th Director of Central Intelligence, and 1st Secretary of Energy
– Michael Forest, American actor
– J.F. Ade Ajayi, Nigerian historian
– Georges Gilson, French Catholic bishop
– Ramon Bieri, American actor (d. 2001)
– Ira Levin, American author (d. 2007)
– Maurice Vachon, French Canadian professional wrestler
– Nicholas Courtney, English actor (d. 2011)