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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rat in Chinese astrology.
– The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
– Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
– Orissa formerly known as Kalinga or Utkal becomes a state in India.
– The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray is elected its first president.
– The International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England.
– Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
– Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture Madrid, but begin the 3-year Siege of Madrid afterwards.
– Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
– The United Auto Workers union stages its first sit-down strike.
Who Were Born On ?
– Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo, Uruguayan politician
– Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian-born British scientist
– Jerry Kramer, American football player
– Nana Meskhidze, Georgian artist-painter (d. 1997)
– Vaughn Meader, American comedian (d. 2004)
– Scott LaFaro, American musician (d. 1961)
– James Dobson, American evangelist
– Tom Robbins, American novelist
– Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
– John Moore, Australian politician