Magnus Johnson of the Farmer-Labor Party wins the special election to the US Senate from Minnesota. His son Francis will create the world’s biggest ball of twine.
Mussolini bans gambling.
Germany now has 30 trillion marks in circulation, which is the equivalent of, well, some amount of money that drops dramatically every single day. The printing presses are running 24/7.
The Pasteur Institute claims to have created a vaccine against measles but I guess it really hasn’t.
In the British Parliament, the Independent Labour Party’s Philip Snowden introduces a motion calling for socialism. It loses 368-121.
There is a “cattle dipping war” going on in Amite County, Mississippi, with some stockmen in quarantined tick regions resisting the mandatory but sometimes fatal process. Federal forces kill a man trying to dynamite a dipping vat.
The Philippine Cabinet resigns, along with the mayor of Manila and some prosecutors in a dispute with Governor-General Leonard Wood following his reinstatement of the chief of the Secret Service, Ray Conley, who has been accused over and over of taking bribes, I guess from gambling interests, but “cleared” each time.
Headline of the Day -100:
The title of the next Star Wars movie, probably.
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