January 26, 1900 (Friday)
- Following the announcement of the abdication of Emperor Kwang Hsu, the Director of the Imperial Chinese Telegraph in Shanghai obtained a petition with 1,230 signatures and sent a telegram to urge that the Emperor reconsider. The Empress Tzu Hsi ordered his arrest, but the Director escaped to Macao
- Born: Karl Ristenpart, conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of the Saar, in Kiel (d. 1967)
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Famous quotes containing the word january:
“and you undid the reins
and I undid the buttons,
the bones, the confusions,
The New England postcards,
the January ten o’clock night,
and we rose up like wheat....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)