French pediatrician Gaston Variot warned young women not to dance the Charleston, because its "sudden wrenching movements" were "likely to produce internal conditions inimical to the proper conditions of childbirth."[3]
The Barnes-Hecker Mine disaster occurred in Ishpeming, Michigan, the worst industrial tragedy in Michigan's history. 51 men died when an explosion in the mine filled the tunnels with water from a nearby swamp.[4]
George W. English resigned as a United States federal judge before his impeachment trial proceedings could begin.
Talks reopened in Britain between the government and the Miners' Federation to end the coal miners' lockout as it dragged into its seventh month.[6]
Mussolini
A new, far-reaching police law was enacted in Italy giving the government extensive powers of confinement and extending its power to dissolve political and cultural organizations. A new deportation law allowed for persons to be restricted to certain localities within Italy for light offenses or exiled to penal colonies for more serious ones. Benito Mussolini also reclaimed the Italian Minister of the Interior position for himself, and Italo Balbo was appointed undersecretary for the Air Ministry.[7][8][9]
In Poland, Marshal Józef Piłsudski decreed a press gag law. The law forbade publishing news that could cause a public demonstration, news or rumors that ridiculed or criticized government officials and judges, and matter considered by government officials to be derogatory. Government officials were empowered to impose fines or jail sentences without a court hearing.[10]
Born:Joan Sutherland, Australian singer, in Sydney (d. 2010)
Died:Tom Forman, 33, American actor and director (suicide)
Princeton University severed athletic relations with Harvard. A formal letter from Princeton explained, "We have been forced to the conviction that it is at present impossible to expect in athletic competition with Harvard that spirit of cordial good will between the undergraduate bodies of the two universities which should characterize college sports."[13]
U.S. Highway System, predecessor to Interstate Highway System, inaugurated
The Nicaraguan Congress elected Adolfo Díaz as president.[16]
Miners' leaders and the British government reached an agreement on the ending of the coal miners' dispute. The miners essentially gave in to the owners' demands, including that the workday be increased from seven hours to eight. Some 300,000 miners had already returned to work by this time through localized settlements.[17]
Died:Joseph G. Cannon, 90, United States politician, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives 1903 to 1911
Author P. L. TraversMary Poppins
A short story appeared in the New Zealand newspaper The Christchurch Sun about a nanny's day out, titled "Mary Poppins and the Match Man". The author, P. L. Travers, would later write a series of children's books about the Mary Poppins character that would be adapted into a musical film by Walt Disney in 1964.[19]
The former Crown Prince Wilhelm and his son were attacked by an angry mob at the Friedrichstraße when they got out of a car flying the Hohenzollern flag. Police intervened and held up traffic until they could ride away again.[20]
It was revealed that the Irish writer and playwright George Bernard Shaw had refused the £7,000 in prize money awarded to him a year ago for his Nobel Prize in Literature, and the Swedish Academy had been begging him to take it ever since. Tired of the standoff, Shaw declared, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize!"[17]
Born:Roy Sievers, U.S. baseball player, 1957 AL home run and RBI leader; in St. Louis (d. 2017)
Italian trade unionist Captain Giuseppe Giulietti, loyal to the Fascists but out of favour for his brand of syndicalism, was arrested in Genoa for purported embezzlement.[26][27]
Born:Lew Burdette, U.S. baseball player who was 1957 World Series MVP, 1956 ERA leader in the NL and the 1959 NL wins leader; in Nitro, West Virginia (d. 2007)
Died:Leonid Krasin, 56, Russian politician and diplomat
Benito Mussolini created a special Court for political crimes and reintroduced the death penalty to Italy for attempts on the life of the royal family or Head of State, acts of espionage and incitement of civil war.[29][30]
King Ferdinand of Romania was reported to be gravely ill, sparking fears that a civil war might break out if he were to die as the heir to the throne, Michael, was five years old and Queen Marie was still on an ocean liner in the Atlantic.[31]
Italy put its anti-striking law to use for the first time, fining eighty-one clothing workers in Gallarate 100 lira each for stopping work.[32][33]
In fighting between German Communists and the right-wing Nazi Party and Reichsbanner members, following the death of Leonid Krasin, 13 people were injured and 60 arrested.[37]
Benito Mussolini restored the right among members of the Fascist Party to criticize government policies.[38]
Duke Ellington and his band recorded "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" for the first time. The jazz tune became one of Ellington's best known numbers and a sort of theme song for the bandleader.[39]
The final holdouts in the British coal miners' lockout – South Wales, Yorkshire, and Durham – returned to work, ending the labour dispute after seven months.[40]
King Ferdinand of Romania issued an edict from his sick bed warning against anyone attempting to interfere with the established dynastic succession to the throne. The message was widely understood to have been directed at Prince Carol, who had renounced the throne over a scandalous affair.[41]
Fascist Italy announced that it was exiling 522 political undesirables to specified towns or penal colonies under the new deportation laws.[42]
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