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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Horse in Chinese astrology.
– 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
– Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, “With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire.” beginning the Salt Satyagraha.
– The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.
– In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first Football World Cup.
– The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.
– The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana. Two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
– Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Sōka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.
– W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.
– Sir Muhammad Iqbal’s presidential address in Allahabad introduces the Two-Nation Theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.
Who Were Born On ?
– Leon Neil Cooper, American physicist, Nobel laureate
– Kostas Nestoridis, Greek footballer
– Roberta Peters, American soprano
– Friedrich Achleitner, German poet
– Mario Bernardi, Canadian conductor
– Ben Gazzara, American actor
– Bernie Ecclestone, English motorsports figure
– Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer
– Robert Joffrey, American choreographer (d. 1988)
– Jean Ferrat, French singer and songwriter