Saturday, February 22, 2020

Today -100: February 22, 1920: Of gum, regents, and rabies


Italy is trying to dodge blame for the Allied ultimatum to Yugoslavia, saying that Prime Minister Francesco Nitti signed it without knowing what was in it, specifically League of Nation supervision over Fiume, because... it was in English and he can’t read English.

Some Spanish doctors think the Spanish Flu came from badly manufactured chewing gum.

Adm. Miklós Horthy is named Regent of Hungary by the Hungarian Assembly. Horthy says he plans to hand power over to Charles Habsburg whenever he becomes king, which will be over our dead bodies, say the Allies. Horthy was in charge of the Austro-Hungarian Navy at the end of the war and led the coup against Béla Kun last year.

Police in Alabama shoot dead a black man who had rabies. As you do.


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