If elected, Harding will be the first Baptist president.
Republicans are worrying that Sen. Robert La Follette will bolt the party for an independent run for the presidency, to the left of Harding on many issues but also strongly anti-League of Nations. Fears that Hiram Johnson would do the same are alleviated when he sends Harding a fulsome message which I now present verbatim: “Congratulations to you. Hi Johnson.”
The first assistant postmaster general rules that children cannot be sent by parcel post as live animals. Which is a thing that had actually happened.
A bomb explodes at Enrico Caruso’s farewell performance at the National Theatre in Havana. No one killed. It may have been a protest against the high ticket prices for Caruso’s shows ($35 and up!).
Gen. Essad Pasha, the Ottoman official who sometimes ran Albania and was scheming to return from exile as its ruler, is assassinated in Paris by an Albanian nationalist, Avni Rustemi. Rustemi says he didn’t plan it; he always carries a revolver, saw Pasha Essad and just couldn’t help himself. “I have killed for Albania,” he tells the French attorney general. He will be acquitted in a French court in December, return to Albania in glory, enter its National Assembly, and of course be assassinated himself in 1924.
Germany: Hermann Müller fails to form a new cabinet. Pres. Ebert calls on the People’s Party (DVP)’s Rudolf Heinze to also fail to form a cabinet.
The Irish Republican Army issues a boycott against the Irish constabulary, ordering that they not be sold food, milk, etc.
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