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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.
– Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
– Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco’s forces.
– Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
– Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called “Scottsboro Boys”.
– In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
– Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
– Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring “living space” for the German people.
– Nanjing Massacre. Japanese troops begin carrying out several weeks of raping and killing of civilians and suspected Chinese resistance after the fall of Nanjing.
– Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world’s first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theater.
Who Were Born On ?
– Don Buford, American baseball player
– Claude Raymond, Quebec baseball player
– Zohra Lampert, American actress
– Joe Tait, American broadcaster
– Gene Chandler, American soul singer
– Dustin Hoffman, American actor
– Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, Nigerian politician (d. 1998)
– Brigid Berlin, American actor
– John Phillip Law, American actor (d. 2008)
– Jim Marshall, American football player