army. December 9 – The 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State is passed, enacting laïcité. December 11 – In support of the Moscow Uprising, the Council of Workers' Deputies of Kiev stages a mass uprising, establishing the Shuliavka Republic in the city, December 12–16. December 15 – The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin. December 16 – In the sport of rugby union, the "Match of the Century" is played between Wales and New Zealand at Cardiff Arms Park. December 30 A bomb kills Frank Steunenberg, ex-governor of Idaho; the case leads to a trial against leaders of the Western Federation of Miners. Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow is first performed, at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna. Date unknown Pathé Frères colors black and white films by machine. Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer are banned from the Brooklyn Public Library, for setting a "bad example." Alfred Einhorn introduces novocaine. Wolves become extinct in Japan. Births January – March January 1 – Malek Bennabi, Algerian philosopher (d. 1973) January 2 Michael Tippett, English composer (d. 1998) Anna May Wong, American actress (d. 1961) January 3 – Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu, younger brother of Japanese Emperor Hirohito (d. 1987) January 4 – Sterling Holloway, American actor (d. 1992) January 12 – Tex Ritter, American actor and singer (d. 1974) January 13 – Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968) January 14 – Takeo Fukuda, 67th Prime Minister of Japan (1976-1978) (d. 1995) January 15 – Torin Thatcher, English actor, Lieutenant colonel of the Royal Artillery (d. 1981) January 17 D. R. Kaprekar, Indian recreational mathematician (d. 1986) Saeb Salam, 4-time prime minister of Lebanon (d. 2000) Guillermo Stábile, Argentine football player, manager (d. 1966) January 18 – Joseph Bonanno (Joe Bananas), American gangster (d. 2002) January 21 – Christian Dior, French couturier (d. 1957) January 24 – J. Howard Marshall, American billionaire (d. 1995) January 26 Maria von Trapp, Austrian singer and leader of the Trapp Family Singers, whose life is dramatized in The Sound of Music (d. 1987) Charles Lane, American actor (d. 2007) January 29 – Barnett Newman, American painter (d. 1970) January 31 – John O'Hara, American writer (d. 1970) February 1 – Emilio Segrè, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989) February 2 – Ayn Rand, American author, philosopher (The Fountainhead) (d.