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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Sheep in Chinese astrology.
– The Congress of the United States approves the construction of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
– The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
– TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas killing 8 including Knute Rockne, head football coach at the University of Notre Dame
– Spanish Cortes depose King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic.
– The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
– Emperor Haile Selassie I signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
– New York City experimental television station W2XAO (now known as WCBS) begins broadcasts.
– France and Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
– The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster 1931, establishing legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Irish Free State, Dominion of Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa.
Who Were Born On ?
– Judith Viorst, American author
– Dean Smith, American basketball coach
– Jacques Demy, French film director (d. 1990)
– Jerry Van Dyke, American actor
– Chalmers Johnson, American political scholar and author (d. 2010)
– John Garrett, British politician (d. 2007)
– Cherd Songsri, Thai filmmaker (d. 2006)
– Annie Girardot, French actress (d. 2011)
– Dan Rather, American television journalist
– Dave Madden, Canadian-born American actor