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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Tiger in Chinese astrology.
– BBC Television produces the world’s first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R., that coined the term “robot”.
– Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
– U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
– The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
– Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
– Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
– Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
– Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre.
– Munich Agreement: Germany was given permission from France, Italy, and Great Britain to seize the territory of Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. The meeting occurred in Munich, and leaders from neither the Soviet Union nor Czechoslovakia attended.
Who Were Born On ?
– Barry Primus, American actor
– Paul Evans, American singer and songwriter
– Lee Morgan, American hard-bop trumpeter (d. 1972)
– Eugene J. Martin, American painter and artist
– Takao Saito, Japanese manga artist
– Jim Steranko, American graphic artist
– Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater
– Denis DeJordy, Canadian ice hockey player
– Connie Francis, American singer
– Matty Alou, Dominican baseball player