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Historical Event(s)
– Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Sheep in Chinese astrology.
– Alam Ara, India’s first talkie film, is released.
– SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
– Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
– Born October 19, 1899 in Sardinia, Michele “Mike” Schirru, Anarchist against Fascism, U.S. Citizen is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini. The U.S. Government did nothing to help Schirru.
– United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
– Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano’s hitmen.
– Start of “Die Voortrekkers” youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
– The Constituent Cortes approves the constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
Who Were Born On ?
– Dickie Moore, Canadian ice hockey player
– Frank Costigan, Australian lawyer (d. 2009)
– L. Douglas Wilder, American 66th Governor of Virginia
– Paul Masnick, Canadian ice hockey player
– Dana Wynter, German-born American actress (d. 2011)
– Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
– Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
– Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian writer
– William Reynolds, American actor
– Guy Debord, French writer (d. 1994)