from Calcutta to Delhi. December 14 – Roald Amundsen's expedition reaches the South Pole. December 18 – The first exhibition by Der Blaue Reiter group of painters opens in Munich. December 18–28 – George V's 1911 hunting trip in Nepal. December 24 – Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. December 29 – Sun Yat-sen is elected Provisional President of the Republic of China. Date unknown The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition is published under American management in England, by Cambridge University Press. New Zealand-born British physicist Ernest Rutherford deduces the existence of a compact atomic nucleus from experiments involving Rutherford scattering, proposing the Rutherford model of the atom. The first suffrage organisation in Romania, Liga Drepturile si Datoriile Femeii, is founded. The Air Intelligence branch of Russia's Airforce is created. Births January January 1 Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (d. 1986) Roman Totenberg, Polish-American violinist (d. 2012) January 2 – Pavel Rychagov, Soviet air ace, air force general (d. 1941) January 3 – Al Sack, American conductor, composer and violinist (d. 1947) January 5 – Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (d. 2001) January 7 – Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995) January 10 Binod Bihari Chowdhury, Bangladeshi revolutionary (d. 2013) Norman Heatley, British biologist (d. 2004) January 11 Brunhilde Pomsel, German broadcaster and secretary (d. 2017) Zenkō Suzuki, 44th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004) January 13 – Joh Bjelke-Petersen, 31st Premier of Queensland (d. 2005) January 15 January 16 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean politician, 29th President of Chile (d. 1982) January 17 John S. McCain Jr., American admiral (d. 1981) George Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991) January 18 José María Arguedas, Peruvian novelist, poet and anthropologist (d. 1969) Danny Kaye, American actor, comedian (d. 1987) January 19 Ken Nelson, American record producer, music executive (d. 2008) Choor Singh, Singaporean judge (d. 2009) January 22 – Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990) January 25 – Kurt Maetzig, German director (d. 2012) January 26 – Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993) January 28 – Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician, academic, author and Yad Vashem recipient (d. 2018) January 29 – Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986) January 30 Roy Eldridge, American jazz musician (d. 1989) Hugh Marlowe, American film, television, stage and radio actor (d. 1982) January 31 Eddie Byrne, Irish actor (d. 1981) Baba Vanga, blind Bulgarian mystic, clairvoyant