A medical bulletin from PresidentHarding's physicians reported fromSan Francisco that there was a "slight improvement in the lung condition" but no change otherwise.[1] A followup report said that he had eaten two soft-boiled eggs for breakfast and had "a slight and only slight attack of indigestion" that "was more than overbalanced by the decline of the President's temperature to normal for the first time."[2] At the same time, committees in San Francisco andLos Angeles agreed to turn over the remaining expenses associated with entertainment during Harding's tour "to a state fund to provide everything necessary for the comfort of President Harding" during his convalescence, including the lease of a private home "in the cool and bracing atmosphere close to San Francisco" during August.[3]
The wife of film comedianAl St. John was granted a divorce in Los Angeles court. "He started drinking in October 1917, and I haven't seen him sober since that time," she testified.[4]
United States PresidentWarren G. Harding died at 7:30 p.m. San Francisco time (10:30 Washington time). At 7:51, a statement of "the saddest news that telegraph wires can carry" was sent across the nation, signed by his five physicians: "The President died instantaneously and without warning and while conversing with members of his family at 7:30 p.m. Death was apparently due to some brain involvement, probably due to an apopleptic stroke. During the day he had been free from discomfort, and there was every justification for anticipating a prompt recovery."[5] While the cause of death was officially said at the time to have been from a stroke, it is now more commonly believed to have been from heart failure.[6]
British Prime MinisterStanley Baldwin told theHouse of Commons that "If the British people feel that the wounds of Europe were being kept open instead of being healed," by the collection of large reparations from Germany, "there might then easily ensue the last thing in the world that I would like to see," whileRamsay MacDonald said "It is perfectly clear that France is in the Ruhr not for the purpose of getting reparations," but "an attempt to continue war after formal peace has been declared."[7]
President Coolidge took a train toWashington and arrived in the nation's capital at 9:10 p.m. after having been driven from Plymouth Notch toRutland, Vermont, where he boarded a private car at the station and traveled to New York City's Grand Central Station and departing at 4:15 p.m. local time for a nonstop trip to Washington in less than six hours. He then was taken from the Pennsylvania Avenue terminal in a private car.[10] President Coolidge and his wife then went to their suite at the Willard Hotel in Washington, where he had lived since becoming vice president, until the White House could be readied for his arrival.[11]
TheIrish Free State passed the "Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Act", to create "an armed force to be calledOglaigh na hEireann (hereinafter referred to as the Forces) consisting of such number of officers, non-commissioned officers, and men as may from time to time be provided" by the parliament.[12] A more permanent force would be established on October 1, 1924.[13]
Baseball commissionerKenesaw Mountain Landis released a statement which read, "It is the sentiment throughout baseball that no games be played either today nor on the day of the funeral for the late President, and as a further mark of respect for his memory, flags at ball parks will be displayed at half mast until after the burial."[14]
Calvin Coolidge's first official act as U.S. president was to declare August 10 a day of national mourning and prayer on the occasion ofWarren Harding's funeral.[17]
SirArthur Conan Doyle ended his visit to North America, boarding theRMS Adriatic in New York bound for England. "After a period of about three days the spirit of President Harding may, if sought, advise Calvin Coolidge, the nation's new chief executive, wisely and helpfully on the great problems confronting him", Doyle said just before leaving.[18]
Iowa SenatorAlbert B. Cummins proposed a constitutional amendment limiting the president to one term only. "Human frailities are too great to stand the strain which the presidency places on a man," Cummins said. "We should limit the President to one term. It might be made a six year term, but I am not so sure about that even."[19]
Died:Candace Thurber Wheeler, 96, American business operator and the first major femaleinterior designer, founder of the Society of Decorative Arts in New York, the New York Exchange for Women's Work, the interior decorating firm of Tiffany & Wheeler, and the textile manufacturer Associated Artists (b.1827)
Manuel Teixeira Gomes waselected President of Portugal by the 194 members of theCongresso da República in a joint session of the Senado and the Câmara dos Deputados on the third ballot. Requiring at least two-thirds of the votes cast, Gomes had 108 of 187 votes (57%) split among five candidates, with former presidentBernardino Machado receiving 73. On the next ballot, Gomes had 117 of 200 votes cast (58%) to 71 for Machado. The final ballot was between Gomes and Machado only, with 68 of Machado's supporters casting blank votes and Gomes receiving 121 of the 126 cast.[citation needed]
German ChancellorWilhelm Cuno called a conference of the six top party leaders where it was decided to put the country back on a gold basis.[22]
U.S.President Harding's funeral train reached Washington, D.C. at 10:22 p.m. and his casket was moved to theWhite House, where it lay overnight in theEast Room.[23]
Died:Petar Angelov, 45, Bulgarian military officer and terrorist with Bulgaria'sIMRO; killed by members of a rival IMRO faction on orders ofTodor Aleksandrov (b.1878)[27]
German PresidentFriedrich Ebert issued a proclamation outlawing the circulation of pamphlets calling for the overthrow of the government or acts of violence. The penalty was three years' imprisonment or a fine of up to 500 million marks.[29]
The first fossil of avelociraptor was discovered, in the course of an expedition by theAmerican Museum of Natural History to theFlaming Cliffs in theGobi Desert ofMongolia. (1924).[30] Peter Kaisen discovered the fossil of the crushed but complete skull ofVelociraptor mongoliensis, which had been extinct for at least 71 million years.
TheCuno strikes broke out across Germany as opposition toWilhelm Cuno hardened.[31] 35 workers were killed and 100 wounded around the country.[32]
Clarence Saunders announced that he was relinquishing control of thePiggly Wiggly supermarket chain after a failed gamble with Piggly Wiggly stocks cost him his entire fortune.[34]
Poland's newly completed port atGdynia received its first ship, France'sCompagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT) linerKentucky, which diverted to Gdynia because of a strike of longshoremen at Danzig (nowGdańsk). "LeKentucky" reportedly "unloaded a live cargo of horses, and took 1,800 emigrants toLe Havre."[36]
TheBucareli Treaty was signed between Mexico and the United States, with Mexico's government to compensate U.S. companies for financial losses sustained during theMexican Revolution, in return for U.S. recognition of the government of PresidentÁlvaro Obregón. The negotiations and ceremony took place at theMexican Office of Interior Affairs government building located onAvenida Bucareli No. 85 in Mexico City.[37]
A coal mine explosion at the Kemmerer Coal Company killed 99 miners nearKemmerer, Wyoming.[40] The toll might have been higher but for the fact that nearly half of the usual force (115 out of 250 miners) were off for a holiday. An investigation determined that a fire boss had apparently attempted to relight his flame safety lamp by striking a match.[41]
A series of tidal waves killed at least 346 people on the western coast ofKorea, and 1,000 were missing after 25,000 homes near the Yalu River were submerged in waves and flooding.[43]
Irish Free State troops arrestedÉamon de Valera, referred to within the anti-Treaty faction ofSinn Féin as "President of the Irish Republic", as just as he began making a speech to his constituents atEnnis inCounty Clare in advance of the August 27 elections.[45]
A brawl involving 2,000 people broke out inSteubenville, Ohio when a banquet held in a hotel by theKu Klux Klan was broken up by a mob swinging clubs and throwing bricks and bottles.[46]
At the annual amateurbullfight in the French resort ofArles, four people were killed and 25 injured when an angry bull leaped over a barrier and charged at young men wishing to demonstrate their skill. A panicked crowd ran upward into the grandstand, which then collapsed under their weight.[47]
The leader of 70,000 workers in theBraunschweig region of Germany threatened to seize the government if their demands were not met.[32][48]
TheHome Bank of Canada closed its doors, wiping out the savings of thousands of Canadians. The bank's collapse would become the subject of a government inquiry.[49][50]
Ratifications of theWashington Naval Treaty of February 6, 1922, were exchanged in Washington, D.C. by representatives of the U.S., UK, France, Italy and Japan, putting its terms into effect[51] TheAnglo-Japanese Alliance, agreed upon by Britain and Japan on January 30, 1902, was officially terminated upon the ratification of theFour-Power Treaty of 1921.[52][53]
A typhoon killed more than 200 people atMacao, Portugal's colony on the mainland of China, with boats being capsized in the Macao harbor and buildings collapsing in the city from high winds and waves.[55]
At least 12 people were killed in the collapse of a church in the Spanish village ofNavarredonda de la Rinconada, and 30 more were injured. The dead and injured were part of a crowd of 100 people who had climbed on top of the church roof to watch a bullfight in a bullring near the church.[56]
The ordeal ofAda Delutuk Blackjack, the last survivor of five people who had been marooned onWrangel Island above the Arctic Circle since September 15, 1921, ended as a rescue team arrived and returned her toAlaska. Harold Noice, leading the rescue expedition on the schoonerDonaldson, reached the island after starting on August 2.[60] Blackjack had been the onlyIñupiat (Alaskan native) on the expedition, hired as a cook for four men who were sent byVilhjalmur Stefansson to claim Wrangel Island forCanada. Three of the men (Milton Galle, Fred Maurer and Allan Crawford) had departed on January 28 in an attempt to get supplies fromSiberia, leaving Lorne Knight and Blackjack behind. Galle, Maurer and Crawford were never seen again, and Knight died on June 23.[61][62] The island is now part of the territory of Russia.
German electrical engineerCharles Proteus Steinmetz said that by 2023, electricity would be doing all the hard work and people would not have to toil for more than four hours a day. Steinmetz also envisioned cities free of pollution and litter in a century's time.[63]
Lord Rothermere, in an editorial in hisSunday Pictorial, entreated Britain to preserve theEntente with France. "Europe without an entente is bound to mean an immense growth in armaments", he wrote. "We will have to resort at once to conscription without waiting for the outbreak of hostilities."[65]
The U.S. Navy airshipU.S.S.Shenandoah, the first rigidairship to usehelium for its buoyancy rather than the less expensive, but flammablehydrogen, was lifted off inside its immensehangar at the Naval Air Station atLakehurst, New Jersey.[66][67] Based on the tests for controlling the ship, a powered flight was approved to take place on September 24.
Romeo A. Horton,Liberian economist and banker, founder of the Bank of Liberia and later the African nation's Secretary of Commerce, Industry and Labor; inMonrovia,Liberia (d.2005)
Off the coast of Japan, 88 men were killed during sea trials ofImperial Japanese Navy'sSubmarine Number 70.[72][73] The dead included 42 shipyard workers along with 46 Navy personnel, and only commanding officer and five other men survived. The sub was diving in the Seto Inland Sea nearAwaji Island when a hatch was opened prematurely, and the wake of a passing ship swamped her.[74][75]
A second swearing-in ceremony was held for U.S. PresidentCalvin Coolidge, 18 days after he had been sworn in by his father, a Vermont notary public, on August 2. Because of the question of whether the presidential oath had to be administered by a federal official, JudgeAdolph A. Hoehling Jr. of theUnited States District Court for the District of Columbia administered the oath to Coolidge at theWillard Hotel. After the ceremony, the Coolidges moved from the hotel to the White House.[76]
France delivered an official note to Britain in which it refused to make any concessions on theoccupation of the Ruhr.[77][78]
The city ofKalamazoo, Michigan passed an ordinance forbidding a dancers to stare into their partners' eyes.[35]
Died:Daniel Best, 85, American farmer and inventor of farm equipment, including the combine harvester and the portable grain cleaner/separator (b.1838)
German Finance MinisterRudolf Hilferding told theReichstag that he planned to introduce heavy taxation as the only way to save the country.[84]
In a secret meeting of the Politburo of the Soviet Union's Communist Party,Leon Trotsky persuaded the leaders to approve a plan to finance theCommunist Party of Germany (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands or KPD) overthrow of the German government.Karl Radek,Józef Unszlicht,Vasily Schmidt andGeorgy Pyatakov, German-speaking members of the Party's Central Committee, were dispatched to Berlin to assist the KPD in planning arevolution to take place in October, with the goal of an industrial "Soviet Germany" to develop the mostly agrarian economy of the USSR.[85][page needed]
Henry C. Mustin, 49, American naval aviator who established the first Naval Air Station for the U.S. Navy, organizing what is nowNAS Pensacola in Florida; died of heart disease (b.1874)
Katō Tomosaburō, 62,Prime Minister of Japan since June 12, 1922, died after a short illness.[90] ViscountUchida Kōsai, the Foreign Minister, served as acting premier until a permanent prime minister could form a new cabinet of ministers.[91] AdmiralYamamoto Gonnohyōe was selected by the Prince RegentHirohito to attempt formation of a new cabinet.[92]
TheReichsministerium für die besetzten Gebiete (Ministry for Occupied Territories) was created in Germany by PresidentFriedrich Ebert to administer the portion of the Ruhr Valley occupied by French and Belgium troops, with Johannes Fuchs serving as the Minister under ChancellorGustav Stresemann. On the same day, Stresemann offered France a share in German industry in exchange for ending the occupation of territory.[93]
Right fielderJackie Gallagher and pitcherJohnson Fry, both of whom had a career batting average of 1.000 in Major League Baseball, both appeared for theCleveland Indians in a 20 to 8 loss at home to theWashington Senators. Fry and Gallagher were among 17 players put into the game by Cleveland, which used five pitchers in the game.[94] For both men, the event was their only MLB game and each got a hit the only at-bat in their careers, for a perfect batting average.
David Benton Jones, 74-75, Welsh-born American industrialist who acquired control of the manufacture ofzinc and became one of the wealthiest men in the U.S. (b. c.1848)[95]
Violence broke out inCarnegie, Pennsylvania between citizens of the heavily Catholic community and theKu Klux Klan. The mayor of Carnegie had stopped the KKK from being allowed to march in the town, but 10,000 Klansmen came out to hold a rally on a nearby hill and then about half of them began moving towards Carnegie anyway. The locals threw stones and a Klansman was shot dead; about a dozen arrests were made.[96][97]
Germany decided to put all workers on the gold basis rate.[98]
A group of six young men became the first persons to climb to the top of the 7,795 feet (2,376 m)Mount Washington volcano in the U.S. state ofOregon.[99]
French Prime MinisterRaymond Poincaré rejectedGustav Stresemann's offer of two days previous. "What we did fifty-three years ago, our former enemies can at least try to do today", Poincaré said, referring to theFrench indemnity after theFranco-Prussian War. "If not, they force us to execute on them what they menaced us with then – pay us or we stay."[100]
Peggy-Jean Montgomery, the 4-year-old star of the Principal Pictures Corporation who was billed as "Baby Peggy", was signed to the largest contract for a child actress up to that time, with one million dollars (about $15 million a century later) over a three-year period.[101]
TheIrish Free State held itsfirst parliamentary election since the State's founding, for 153 seats in the4th Dáil.[103] TheCumann na nGaedheal party, led by Prime MinisterW. T. Cosgrave, won 63 seats, while the Irish Republicans led byÉamon de Valera received 44. Although Cosgrave's party was 14 fewer than the required 77 for a majority, the Republicans elected refused to participate in the Dáil, and the Farmers' Party joined a coalition.[104]
Italian Army GeneralEnrico Tellini, inspecting the disputed border between Greece and Albania as part of a League of Nations mission, was shot and killed in an ambush along with three officers and an interpreter.[105] On the Greek side of the border, between the town ofIoannina and the crossing at the Albanian town ofKakavijë, Tellini's automobile was stopped by a fallen tree and the group was killed. The Italian government blamed Greece for the killing, leading to theCorfu incident on August 31.[106]
Germany's government offered to end their passive resistance campaign in theRuhr in exchange for the release of deportees and prisoners and a guarantee of the "safety of life and subsistence of the Ruhr population."[107]
Japan's Crown Prince Hirohito moved into theAkasaka Palace,[citation needed] intending to stay only temporarily, but would remain there for five years until two months before his coronation, because the Tokyo earthquake leveled available housing four days later on September 1.
Ex-Pennsylvania governorWilliam Cameron Sproul suggested thatProhibition hastened the death ofWarren G. Harding. "I think President Harding's death was accelerated by the fact that he thought it was his duty, because of Prohibition, to set a public example and abstain", Sproul said. "He was accustomed to an occasional drink of scotch. I was his personal friend and I know, and in that laborious task of a trip to Alaska, I'm sure he missed it."[110]
The trademark forLincoln Logs, the notched wooden toys patented by John Lloyd Wright on August 31, 1920, was registered.[111]
Died:
Nathan Kaplan, 32, American gangster known as "Kid Dropper;" shot to death by hit manLouis Cohen while being transferred by a police car in New York City after his arrest (b.1891)[112][113][page needed]
Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy, 60, Hungarian-born American portrait painter, who signed her work as "Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy" based on her brief marriage to Russian PrinceGeorgy Lvov (b.1863)[114]
Italy delivereda seven-point ultimatum to Greece demanding satisfaction over the recent murder of Italy's General Tellini, with the Greek government given 24 hours to agree to pay 50 million lire reparations, a full inquiry, execution of the killers, an official apology, and a funeral and military honors for the victims.[115] The next day, Greece replied with a four-point counterproposal refusing to pay the indemnity, but agreeing to an expression of sorrow, a memorial service and honors to the victims remains.[106]
The 12,807 feet (3,904 m) highGranite Peak in the U.S. state ofMontana was scaled for the first time, with Elers Koch, James C. Whitham, and R.T. Ferguson making the ascent.[116]
The 12,519 feet (3,816 m) highSouth Teton mountain in the U.S. state ofWyoming was scaled for the first time, with mountain climbersAlbert R. Ellingwood and Eleanor Davis making the first ascent. Later in the day, Ellingwood became the first person to climb the 12,809 feet (3,904 m) highMiddle Teton mountain.[117]
Junior featherweight boxing championJack "Kid" Wolfe lost his world title in a 15-round decision againstCarl Duane in a bout at Queensboro Stadium in New York City.[118]
A riot broke out in the small city ofPerth Amboy, New Jersey when a mob of 6,000 attacked a hall where a meeting of 150 members of theKu Klux Klan was being held. Police and firemen tried to control the crowd with clubs, gas bombs and water hoses, but were overwhelmed.[122] Two cars full of Klansmen were intercepted before they could escape and the occupants were beaten.[123]
The annualVictory Day holiday,Zafer Bayrami, was celebrated in Turkey for the first time.[124] The event, a public holiday since 1926, commemorated Turkey's victory in the decisiveBattle of Dumlupınar to win theGreco-Turkish War on August 30, 1922.
Another anti-KKK riot broke out, this time nearNew Castle, Delaware when a mob attacked a Klan initiation ceremony. Five were shot in the fighting.[129]
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