Roald Amundsen flies over the North Pole in the semi-rigid (hey, it’s cold up there) airship The Norge and, unlike Richard Byrd a couple of days ago, he can actually prove it: the multi-national crew drop flags on the ice. Everyone on the Norge is pissed off that pilot Umberto Nobile’s Italian flag is larger than the Norwegian and American ones.
Henry Patterson, a black man, is lynched in LaBelle, Florida after he escapes from a cop car after being arrested for attacking a white woman. Except he hadn’t: the woman just started screaming when she saw a black man, as was the custom. He is shot by the mob and his corpse is hanged from a tree.
The British government, using emergency powers, diverts paper intended for the Times to that purveyor of bullshit, the British Gazette.
Pravda complains that the striking British miners’ union rejection of funds from the Soviet Union, which it says was done to demonstrate that the strike is purely economic and not revolutionary. “But can’t they see that the general strike must be political and international. Labor solidarity is one of their strongest trumps.”
Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera wants to reform bullfights by... using younger horses. Ok, I stopped reading this article because, fuck. Seriously, blindfolded horses? WTF, Spain?
Berlin police raid the offices and homes of associates of right-wing newspaper baron Alfred Hugenberg (but not his?), as well as the Viking Bund, the United Fatherland Societies and other such organizations. They find evidence of a plot to overthrow the Weimar government and establish a military dictatorship (hint to plotters: maybe don’t leave memos titled “Dictatorship” lying around).
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