Bing Crosby made his nationwide solo radio debut.
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Great Britain and its colonies spent their last day using the Julian calendar.
The first battle between the Spanish settlers and the Mexican natives of the Otomi and Tlaxcalans tribespeople started.
Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt named her son Ptolemy XV Caesar a co-ruler of Egypt.
The United States announced its recognition of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania's independence as individual countries after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Egypt's state TV lifted the ban on veiled news presenters.