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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Monkey in Chinese astrology.
– The 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, Netherlands burns down. It is rebuilt and reopens exactly 70 years later.
– Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
– In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer.
– Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
– Great Depression: in Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans.
– Premiere of Walt Disney’s Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
– Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
– The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in the first ever NFL Championship Game. Because of a blizzard, the game is moved from Wrigley Field to the Chicago Stadium, the field measuring 80 yd long.
– A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people.
Who Were Born On ?
– Raisa Gorbachova, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (d. 1999)
– Wes Santee, American middle distance runner (d. 2010)
– Pete Domenici, American politician
– Geraldine McEwan, English actress
– Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (d. 2007)
– Forest Able, American basketball player
– Maurice Rabb, Jr., American ophthalmologist
– Atholl McKinnon, South African cricketer (d. 1983)
– Richard Dawson, English-American actor and game show host
– Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (d. 2002)