Director/actor William Desmond Taylor is shot dead in his home. The films he directed include Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Anne of Green Gables, and How Could You, Jean? with Mary Pickford. Did Mabel Normand, the last person known to have seen him alive, shoot him? Probably not. Was he killed by Mabel’s cocaine suppliers? Possibly. Was it actress Margaret Gibson, who confessed to the murder on her deathbed in 1964? Er, probably not. His murder will never be solved. Taylor leaves behind a wife and daughter... sorry, he actually left them behind in 1908, when he split town and changed his name, as was the custom (the wife, who had long divorced him, spotted him in a movie a couple of years ago).
A black man, Will Thrasher, is lynched in Mississippi, accused in a note tacked to the tree from which he is hanged of attacking a white school teacher in, um, Fairplay, Mississippi.
The Italian government of Ivanoe Bonomi resigns. I don’t think it’s entirely because they were too nice to the Vatican after Pope Benedict died, but it’s definitely partly because of that.
The Federation of Cental America project fails when Honduras pulls out.
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