Headline of the Day -100:
Shots are fired at Tsar Boris III’s car, killing the director of the Bulgaria National Museum and a servant but not his tsarishness. “The King’s experience was a thrilling one...” One interesting detail: he and the remaining members of his entourage returned fire. Does the tsar carry a gun?
Elsewhere on Assassinations Day, which is evidently a Bulgarian national holiday, Gen. Konstantin Georgiev, one of the leaders in the 1923 coup, is shot dead as he goes to his church in Sofia with his granddaughter for services. (Spoiler Alert: ... ... nah). His assassin, Atanas Todovichin, will escape to the USSR, where he’ll be executed in 1938, as was the custom.
Madge Oberholtzer, who was assaulted by KKK leader D.C. Stephenson, dies of the poison she took after the attack a month ago (the Grand Lizard, or whatever his current title is, prevented her getting medical assistance). She was 28.
Aristide Briand fails to form a French cabinet after the United Socialists refuse to participate, so the task ping pongs back to Paul Painlevé. It’s believed that if Painlevé fails again, Briand will be given a chance to fail again.
Georgia Superior Court Judge Ogden Persons rules that a man can spank his wife.
Buster Keaton’s Seven Chances, my favorite of his films, opens.
Thanks for the heads up about Seven Chances. It's on Prime and will watch it as soon as the boycott is over.
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