Auguste Renoir dies at 78, the same day as his painting Point Neuf (1872) sells for $10,000.
Sen. Albert Fall (R-New Mexico) introduces a resolution to break off relations with Mexico, which he claims is distributing Bolshevik propaganda in the US in order to overthrow its government. Sen. John Shields (D-Tenn.) says we should skip that step and just go straight to war.
Germany refuses to sign the protocol to implement the peace treaty. In part this is because the Allies are demanding compensation for the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow in June, which Germany says it isn’t responsible for because Adm. von Reuter ordered it on his own. Germany also objects to “the paragraph which would permit the invasion of our country by armed forces in times of peace on any trivial pretext.”
Some of the larger coal companies have settled with the union, for more than the government’s 14% pay increase.
South Dakota ratifies the women’s suffrage Amendment. 21 down, 15 to go.
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