Historical Events
Academy Awards
3rd Academy Awards: "All Quiet on the Western Front", George Arliss and Norma Shearer win
George Arliss
Norma Shearer
- Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for "Babbitt"
Famous Birthdays
- Clifford Irving, American novelist and investigative reporter (hoax autobiography of Howard Hughes), born in NYC, New York (d. 2017)
Famous Deaths
Christiaan Eijkman
Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and bacteriologist (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1929), dies at 72
Christiaan Eijkman