It was Chinese New Year.
The Department of Agriculture took over 133 striking meat packing plants.
In the same issue of the Rocky Mountain News, Robert Ruark, famous for his hunting columns, had one about radio telephones.
The same issue had this advertisement, showing how important equine power still was.
French troops fought the Viet Quoc Armed Force, Vietnamese nationalist and socialist troops, at Phong Thổ District. The French would prevail after a two day battle.
Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng, whose army this was, was not a Communist party, and in fact it was suppressed by the Communists and many of its members went into exile following the Vietnamese War.
Bikini Atoll was chosen for nuclear tests by the U.S.
Film critic Gene Siskel was born on this day in Chicago.
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