The Norge has reappeared. It has discovered no new land in the Arctic.
The Underwood Typewriter Company introduces the first typewriter with Chinese characters.
Polish president Stanisław Wojciechowski and the Cabinet resign, submitting to Piłsudski’s coup. Piłsudski won’t be prime minister, contenting himself with Minister of War and running things from behind the scenes, fooling no one.
Russia doesn’t seem to mind the near-fascist coup in its neighbor but France is rather concerned.
At a sesquicentennial event in Williamsburg, Coolidge says the states are the sheet anchors of the US and should stop giving up their powers to the federal government, which should contract.
The British Labour Party repudiates the General Strike™: “For the purpose of checking unconstitutional governments, and acting as a defensive weapon in the industrial battle of labour, the general strike has its place, but the emancipation of the people from capitalism and the re-establishment of Socialism must be achieved primarily by an educational and political organization.” Re-establishment?
Mexico has rejected the Vatican’s request to resume diplomatic relations, but the Vatican tries to sneak an envoy (official title: Apostolic Delegate), Rev. George Caruana (a US citizen, born in Malta, Bishop of Puerto Rico and the Antilles) into the country. Mexico is now deporting him.
Some Hopi Indians from Arizona do some of their religious dances on Capitol Plaza in D.C. before a crowd that includes senators, Supreme Court justices & VP Dawes. They have war bonnets, bear skins and dance with six Arizona black snakes. Their purpose is to demonstrate that Hopi rituals are not cruel or demonic or something, as claimed by people who want Congress to ban them. Sen. Ralph Cameron (R-Arizona) says the dance is not as bad as the Charleston. The NYT says it’s a bit like the hula.
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