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Historical Event(s)
– Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.
– The League of Nations bans foreign national “volunteers” in the Spanish Civil War.
– The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
– The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 km outside Milan.
– Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
– In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
– Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
– Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan’s Lutheran community.
– Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing – Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing.
Who Were Born On ?
– Don Buford, American baseball player
– Adam Wade, American singer and actor
– Jerry Reed, American singer and actor (d. 2008)
– Jack Nicholson, American actor
– Zohra Lampert, American actress
– Francis Veber, French film director and screenwriter
– Stelvio Cipriani, Italian composer
– Peter Max, American artist
– Garry Gross, American photographer (d. 2010)
– Max Baer, Jr., American actor