Today -100: November 21, 1925: Of queens mother, prohibition, and burying Snoopy’s arch-nemesis

Queen Mother Alexandra, the Denmark-born widow of Edward VII, dies

at 80.

Coolidge calls for prosecutions of users of alcohol and not just bootleggers.

France has finally given the body of The Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen, back to Germany, which holds a ceremony in which the coffin is accompanied by planes. One of which crashes, killing its 21-year-old pilot. It’s what Reddy would have wanted, probably. 

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