The first "superdreadnought" of the U.S. Navy, USSWashington, was launched atCamden, New Jersey. With an all-electric-driven engine, the warship had eight 16 inches (410 mm) guns and was capable of a speed of 21 knots.[2]
TheLeague of Nations Supreme Council appointed an international commission to determine the Silesian boundary between Germany and Poland, with Paul Hymans of Belgium, Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo of China, Count Quinones de Leon of Spain and Dr. Gastoa de Cunha of Brazil.[2]
The first U.S. Army troops arrived in the state ofWest Virginia, reachingSt. Albans by train to restore order toMingo County and other areas where thousands of coal miners and strikebreakers were preparing to fight each other.[3] A spokesman for U.S. PresidentWarren G. Harding said that the administration would delay an actual proclamation ofmartial law in affected counties except as a last resort, noting that "martial law can never exist where courts are open and in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their jurisdiction."[4]
International famine aid to Russia began as 28,000 tons of food were loaded on trains atRiga inLatvia, of which 20,000 tons were from the U.S. and 8,000 tons from European nations.[2]
Austin Dobson, 81, British poet who introduced various forms of French poetry into the English language, including thetriolet, theballade and therondeau.[8]
Anthony F. Lucas (Antonio Francisco Luchich), 65, Croatian-born American engineer, inventor and oil driller who struck the 1901 "Spindletop gusher" that spurred the oil boom in Texas.[9]
Napoleone Colajanni, 74, Italian socialist politician and theorist, member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies since 1890[10]
On the first full day of U.S. Army intervention in theBattle of Blair Mountain inMingo County, West Virginia, about 400 of 4,000 armed miners agreed to disarm and surrendered their weapons to the federal troops. Most miners in the insurrection fled into the West Virginia hills, and many hid their weapons.[11]
Representatives of U.S. oil companies signed an agreement with the government of Mexico after negotiating a favorable tariff on Mexican petroleum exports.[12][13]
The Republic of China appointed Dr. W. W. Yen to be its chief delegate to the November arms limitation conference.[2]
TheSS Abessinia, a German-registered cargo ship, was wrecked on Knivestone in theFarne Islands off the coast of England, after being surrendered to the United Kingdom by Germany as part of World War One reparations. The wreckage can still be seen in the North Sea and the site is popular with divers.[14]
Irish NationalistÉamon de Valera replied to the July 20 proposals by British Prime MinisterDavid Lloyd George and rejected the idea of limited self-government within the UK for southern Ireland. De Valera insisted on Dominion status similar to that of other dominions such as Canada, the end of British armed forces occupation, freedom from British acts of Parliament and a unity with the province of Northern Ireland.[16]
A treaty between theUnited States and theKingdom of Siam (nowThailand) went into effect, with the U.S. giving up extraterritorial rights within Siam and Siam gaining full fiscal autonomy.[17]
The Emirate ofAfghanistan ratified a treaty of non-interference with the Soviet Union.[2]
France agreed to accept reparations of building supplies worth seven billion German marks as a substitute for German gold.[2]
PrinceHirohito of Japan returned home after completing his tour of Europe.[2] He would not return to Europe until almost exactly 50 years later, as the first Emperor of Japan to depart the nation.
As the second plenary session of theLeague of Nations opened inGeneva, the League admitted five new member nations (Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland and Luxembourg) and elected Netherlands Foreign MinisterHerman van Karnebeek as the new President of the League Assembly.[23]
Eddy Goldfarb, American toy inventor known for creating the popularStompers toy cars (1980), theVac-U-Form (1961), and thechattering teeth novelty (1949); as Adolph Edward Goldfarb in Chicago
A New York City daily newspaper, theNew York World began itsexposé of the Ku Klux Klan[29] The series ran for 21 consecutive days, finishing on September 26, and was picked up by 15 major U.S. newspapers.[30]
ThePeace Arch, situated near the westernmost point of theCanada–United States border, between the communities ofSurrey, British Columbia andBlaine, Washington, one of the firstearthquake-resistant structures built in North America, was publicly dedicated to commemorate 100 years of peace between the U.S. and Canada.[31] Samuel Hill, the president of the Pacific Highway Association, had conceived the idea in 1914 as a centennial of the ratification (on February 17, 1815) of theTreaty of Ghent, which ended theWar of 1812, but construction and fundraising had been delayed by World War One.[2][32]
The British government cabinet met outside of England for the first time, holding an emergency session at the Town House of the city ofInverness inScotland. Prime Minister Lloyd George was on vacation in nearbyGairloch. From the meeting came the government's counteroffer to Ireland'sÉamon de Valera, proposing a September 20 conference atInverness in Scotland withDáil Éireann delegates on the condition that Ireland agree to remain within the British Empire.[36]
The Army of Nicaragua successfully repelled Nicaraguan rebels who were attempting to invade the Central American nation from neighboring Honduras. After the rebels fled back across the border, 1,300 of them were captured by troops of the Army of Honduras.[2]
Distribution of American famine relief for Russia began inPetrograd (nowSaint Petersburg) as kitchens were opened and food was distributed.[37]
Major League Baseball Commissioner and former judgeK. M. Landis, who had agreed to be the arbitrator in a dispute between unionized construction workers and construction firms, ordered a reduction of up to one-third in the wages of the laborers, from $1.25 an hour to 70¢ an hour.[2]
The British-registered ocean linerAlmanzora ran aground atPorto, Portugal.[38] Her 1,200 passengers were taken off the following day, and[39] the ship was refloated on September 13.[40]
Born:
Alfred Schild, Turkish-born American theoretical physicist (d. 1977)[41]
John Tamatoa Baker, 69, Hawaiian-born politician who served as the governor of the Island of Hawaii within the Kingdom of Hawaii during 1892 and 1893.[citation needed]
The Soviet government of Russia denied the Allied Relief Commission authority to investigate famine conditions in the Russian interior.[2]
The American representatives for the November 11 arms limitation conference scheduled for Washington were named, to be led by U.S. Secretary of StateCharles Evans Hughes, former Secretary of StateElihu Root, and to include both the Republican and Democratic U.S. Senate leaders,Henry Cabot Lodge andOscar W. Underwood.[42]
Soviet troops completed their withdrawal from the short-livedSoviet Republic of Gilan, following negotiations with Persia.[43]
U.S. philanthropistUrbain Ledoux, who billed himself as "Mister Zero", staged a job fair inBoston in which he displayed 150 unemployed job seekers on an auction block in the same manner of slaves, including having the men pose shirtless, to be "auctioned off" to potential employers.[44]
U.S. Marine Sergeant Theodore B. Crawley set a new world record formarksmanship, shooting 177 consecutivebullseyes with a U.S. Army standard rifle from a distance of 800 yards (730 m) in a competition at Camp Perry in Ohio. The previous world record was 106 bullseyes in a row.[2]
TheCunard Line shipRMSAquitainia set a speed record in crossing the Atlantic Ocean, averaging 22.45knots (25.835 miles per hour (41.577 km/h)) in making the run from Cherbourg to New York in 5 days, 16 hours and 57 minutes.[49]
A group of 18 federal agents of the U.S. narcotics squad raided the Greek ocean linerKing Alexander while it was anchored in New York and fought a gun battle, wounding five members of the crew, beating 20 more, and arresting 326 people after being tipped off that the ship was smuggling narcotics and liquor. The agents reportedly seized more than one million dollars' worth of illegal cargo, but were unable to catch the leader of the narcotics ring, Sabas Meninthis, who was the fourth officer of theKing Alexander. New York Harbor police fired at the federal agents, mistaking them as smugglers. One hour after the raid, the leader of the narcotic squad raiders, Frank J. Fitzpatrick, committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest.[52]
Virginia Rappe, 30, American film actress who had been raped four days earlier at a party hosted by Fatty Arbuckle, died of peritonitis from a ruptured bladder (b. 1891)[56]
At least 215 people were killed in a flash flood of theBrazos River and its tributaries in the U.S. state ofTexas.[57][58] InSan Antonio, 51 people died as waters 12 feet (3.7 m) high rushed through the downtown business district.[59][60] Hardest hit was the town ofTaylor, Texas, where 87 people drowned after 39.7 inches (1,010 mm) of rain fell in 36 hours inWilliamson County.
Thirty-four people inChester, Pennsylvania were killed when a wooden footbridge on Third Street collapsed.[61] A group of about 60 men, women and children had crowded the old structure to watch the recovery of a drowning victim, when the bridge fell 15 feet (4.6 m) into the river.
The first ascent of the steep north face of theEiger, the 13,015 feet (3,967 m) mountain in the Alps of Switzerland, was made by a team of four climbers,Maki Yūkō of Japan, andFritz Steuri, Fritz Amatter andSamuel Brawand of Switzerland.[63][64]
Duke of Teschen
Archduke Friedrich of Austria, the Duke of Teschen and former Supreme Commander of the Austro-Hungarian forces during World War One, sold almost all of his estates in Austria (including castles, apartment buildings, mining operations, theAlbertina Museum inVienna and one million acres of Austrian land — more than 1,500 square miles (3,900 km2) — to an American business syndicate of investors, headed byJ. P. Morgan & Co. presidentCharles H. Sabin.[65]
American silent film starRoscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was arrested in San Francisco and charged with the murder ofVirginia Rappe after allegations made by Bambina Maude Delmont. Rappe had died the day before in Wakefield Sanitarium due to a ruptured bladder and secondary peritonitis, which Delmont claimed stemmed from an assault by Arbuckle.[66] Within a few days, movie theaters in California, and then in the rest of the United States, announced that they would not show Arbuckle's films, including the recently releasedCrazy to Marry.
The three member nations of the proposed Federation of Central America—El Salvador,Guatemala andHonduras— choseTegucigalpa, capital of Honduras, to be the Federation capital.[70]
The Jewish village ofNahalal was established as the firstmoshav ovdim, a cooperative settlement for resident families. Nahalal was constructed on land purchased by thePalestine Land Development Company from the family that leased the land to Arab homesteaders and included all but 180 hectares (445 acres) of the Palestinian village ofMa'alul.[71]
The Soviet Union declared war on the Kingdom of Romania in order to reclaim the territory ofBessarabia, 18,000 square miles (47,000 km2) of territory awarded from the Russian Empire to Romania by the Allied Supreme Council in 1919.[75]
The three-weekBattle of Sakarya in theGreco-Turkish War concluded when the Turks were able to force the surrender of the Greeks and proved a turning point in the conflict. Roughly 4,000 people died on each side.[79]
German aircraft designerFriedrich Harth set a world record for staying aloft in a glider for more than 20 minutes (21 minutes, 37 seconds).[81] Harth began his descent from the plateau ofDieWasserkuppe, at 3,117 feet (950 m) the highest of Germany'sRhön Mountains, in aHarth-Messerschmitt S8 sailplane. At an altitude of about 230 feet (70 m), 21 minutes and 37 seconds after his flight began, Harth crashed when a control cable for the S8 jammed and he was unable to maneuver the aircraft.[82] Harth survived, but with serious injuries.
In a demonstration atPittsfield, Massachusetts, the General Electric Company transmitted one million volts of electricity for the first time. The accomplishment was made possible by the work of engineers F. W. Peak Jr.; G. Faccioli; and W. S. Moody.[83]
U.S. Army Brigadier GeneralWilliam "Billy" Mitchell, in a report to his commanding officer, Major General Menoher, issued a strong dissent to a report that concluded that battleships were superior to aerial bombardment, and recommended that the U.S. Department of War and the U.S. Department of the Navy be consolidated into a single "U.S. Department of National Defense", with the Army, Navy and a proposed U.S. Air Service to be sub-departments.[84]
In Munich, Nazi Party leaderAdolf Hitler and editorHermann Esser disrupted a meeting of the Bavarian League (Der Bayernbund) and got into a fight with Bavarian secessionist leaderOtto Ballerstedt. Hitler served one month in jail for assault. After becomingFuehrer of Germany, Hitler would arrange for Ballerstedt's assassination in 1934.[88]
TheDáil Éireann agreed to bring a delegation of five representatives to a meeting with the British government inInverness, including Dáil Éireann Foreign MinisterArthur Griffith and Finance MinisterMichael Collins, but refused to drop its demand for complete independence. Prime Minister Lloyd George canceled the conference the next day.[89]
Ten employees of theAtlantic Refining Company inPhiladelphia were killed, and eight seriously injured, in the fiery explosion of a high-pressurenaphtha distillery.[90] Another 20 were less seriously hurt by the blast, which had sent a spray of burning oil across the factory floor.
Japan published its note to the Republic of China on terms for the restoration of Japanese control of theShandong Peninsula. While China would retain nominal jurisdiction, the Japanese would be given economic control of the ports ofQingdao andJiaozhou Bay.[96][97]
Norma MacMillan, Canadian television voice actress known for the voices of the title characters inCasper the Friendly Ghost andGumby, and "Davey" inDavey and Goliath; inVancouver (d. 2001)[100]
Died:Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, 35, Austrian-born mercenary who took control of the government of Mongolia before being captured by the Soviet Army on August 20, was executed by a firing squad.[101]
The first season of the newly establishedIrish Free State League of Ireland began, with three games involving the soccer football league's six teams. Frank Haine of Bohemians scored the first ever goal in the new league in their 5–0 win against the YMCA. The other scores were Shelbourne 3, Frankfort 1; and St James's Gate 5, Dublin United 1.[107]
TheDovre Line rail link betweenOslo andTrondheim inNorway was officially opened. The next day, the rail line suffered its first fatal accident.[111]
TheAll Blacks and Springboks drew 0–0 in the third and deciding test of their inaugural rugby union series in appalling conditions at Wellington, New Zealand. The All Blacks had won the first test in Dunedin 13-5 and the Springboks had won the second test in Auckland 9 to 5, thus making the three-test series 1-1 and setting the scene for one of the great rivalries in world rugby and sport.[citation needed]
TheRepublic of the Rif (Tagduda en Arif), a secessionist nation governed by theBerber people, was founded inAjdir inMorocco, byAbd el-Krim, the leader of a successful military campaign against the occupying Spanish Army and a rebellion against the Moroccan Arab Sultan.[113]
British Prime Minister Lloyd George informed Irish Republican leader De Valera that a peace conference could not be held unless Ireland withdrew its demand for full sovereignty separate from the United Kingdom.[97]
The first U.S. radio station in New England,WBZ, began broadcasting. Operating fromSpringfield, Massachusetts and financed by Westinghouse Electric Company, the station used the 300m wavelength (equivalent to 830 kHz AM frequency).[120]
The relatively newPrincipality of Albania asked the League of Nations Assembly to intervene to stop the violation of its borders by theKingdom of Yugoslavia. The Allied Powers had not determined a fixed boundary after the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire into the Balkan States.[123]
Republican candidateHolm O. Bursum defeated Democrat Richard H. Hanna in a special election for U.S. Senator forNew Mexico, filling the vacancy caused after former SenatorAlbert B. Fall resigned in March to become U.S. Secretary of the Interior in the Harding Administration.[97]
In the U.S. city ofPittsburgh, theKDKA radio station and thePittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper created the first "news room" and "news department" in the history of broadcasting.[125]
An industrial explosion killed 560 people, and injured 2,000 others after a tower silo containing 4,500 tonnes of ammonium-based fertilizer blew up at the Badische Anilinfabrik Company (BASF) plant and leveled the town ofOppau in Germany.[127][128] "Put Loss in Oppau at a Billion Marks— 500 Bodies Recovered From 150-Acre Waste of Badische Plant
TheLeague of Nations approved a resolution to elect a commission to study the feasibility of a League organization for members to exchange cultural, educational and scientific information, which would lead to the creation of theInternational Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC) on August 1, 1922, a forerunner ofUNESCO.[129]
Second LieutenantErnest Maunoury, 26, French flying ace with 11 aerial victories in World War One, was killed in a plane crash nearCazaux, when a wing fell off of the airplane that he was piloting.[131]
SirErnest Cassel, 69, Prussian-born British merchant and banker.[97]
At the city ofMadurai inBritish India, theMahatma Gandhi, leader of the passive resistance movement against British rule, decided to abandon the Western attire that he had worn as a lawyer, in favor of the traditional robe and loin cloth worn by the poorest of the Indian people.[132] He would continue to dress in the style of the common man for the rest of his life.
The sinking of the Norwegian cargo shipSalina killed 14 of her 25 crew when the ship collided with the Belgian shipJan Breydel and sank in theEnglish Channel. Survivors were rescued by theJan Breydel.[133][134]
TheCentral Legislative Assembly representing the indigenous majority ofBritish India voted to lobby the British government to repeal the repressiveRowlatt Act that permitted colonial authorities to arrest and imprison suspects indefinitely without trial.[97]
SeethikoyaThangal, leader of rebels in what is nowIndia's state ofKerala, proclaimed himself the Governor of a kingdom based inKumaramputhur.[97]
Died:Ivan Vazov, 71, Bulgarian poet, playwright and novelist known as "The Patriarch of Bulgarian literature" for his revival ofBulgarian language in modern literary works.[137]
At Geneva,Poland and Germany signed a treaty allowing Germany to retain the independent port ofDanzig.[138] After World War II, the "Free State of Danzig" and surrounding communities became a permanent part of Poland asGdańsk.
With nine games left in thepennant race in baseball's American League, and six of the AL's eight teams eliminated from contention, the first placeNew York Yankees (91-53) and the second placeCleveland Indians (92-54) met for the first part of a four-game scheduled regular season series that would ultimately determine who would go to theWorld Series, and the Yankees won, 4 to 2, to take the lead in the race.[139] Cleveland won the Saturday game, 9 to 0, while the Yankees beat the Indians in the Sunday installment, 21 to 7[140] and the Monday final, 8 to 7, putting the Indians two games behind the Yankees with only four left to play.[141]
Johnny Buff (John Lisky) won the world bantamweight boxing championship at the age of 32, defeating titleholderPete Herman (Peter Gulotta), who had recently reclaimed the title on July 25, in a 15-round bout at Madison Square Garden.[142]
Died:Bernard de Romanet, 27, French Army lieutenant and World War One flying ace with 18 aerial victories, later a sporting pilot who broke the world speed record twice in 1920 (with a maximum speed of 192 kilometres per hour (119 mph), was killed in a plane crash while taking part in the qualifying races for theCoupe Deutsch de la Meurthe, where he had planned to reclaim the world speed record fromJoseph Sadi-Lecointe. According to witnesses from the ground, it appeared that Romanet had unofficially surpassed 200 kilometres per hour (120 mph) and then 300 kilometres per hour (190 mph) in aLumière-de Monge racer monoplane but that the fabric on the left wing had torn off, causing him to crash nearÉtampes.[144] The Monge had recently been converted from abiplane to amonoplane when the lower wings were removed in order to increase speed, and plunged from an altitude of 650 feet (200 m).[145]
InBudapest, former Hungarian Prime Minister and Austro-Hungarian Foreign MinisterGyula Andrássy escaped an assassination attempt. Anti-monarchist Ibrahim Kover fired five shots at Andrassy and former National Assembly leader Rakovsky, both leaders of theChristian National Union Party (KNEP), which advocated bringing the last ruler of Austria-Hungary,King Karoly IV, back to the throne.[146]
The firstInternational Eugenics Conference since 1912, and only the second one ever held, was closed inLondon with an address by British Army MajorLeonard Darwin, a eugenicist and politician, as well as the son ofCharles Darwin. Major Darwin told the delegates that it was the patriotic duty of "better class" families to propagate because those persons with "superior" genetic traits were "disappearing" while "inferior" citizens were rapidly multiplying.[97]
The Council of Ambassadors in theLeague of Nations demanded that Hungary evacuate theBurgenland section of Austria, which Hungarian partisans claimed as "Őrvidék".[97]
The U.S. Army's Air Service tested its bombing skills on the retired battleshipUSSAlabama with a simulated bombing using smoke bombs and tear gas, as well as a crew of mannequins substituting for enemy sailors.[147]
The Council of the League of Nations presented the Hymans Commission report to the League Assembly on the recommended settlement of the dispute between Poland and Lithuania overVilnius, which Poland's GeneralLucjan Zeligowski had seized in October.[97]
Three people were killed nearStaten Island in New York when their sailboat was run over by aCunard Line cruise ship, theRMSCaronia, which had departed New York bound for Liverpool. Harbor police concluded that the engine of the sloopJohn Anton had stalled as the boat was attempting to steer out of the path of the oncomingCaronia, which sliced the smaller craft in half.[148]
The first college football game to be held at what is nowNeyland Stadium on the campus of theUniversity of Tennessee took place at Shields-Watkins Field, with the UT Volunteers defeating Emory & Henry College, 27 to 0. The bleachers had seating for 3,200 people on opening day; 100 years later, Neyland Stadium would be able to seat more than 30 times as many people, with 102,455 seats.[149]
Poland's President,Józef Piłsudski, narrowly escaped an assassination attempt inLwow as Ukrainian activistStepan Fedak fired at an open car carrying Pilsudski and Lwow Governor Kazimierz Grabowski.[97] Governor Grabowski was struck twice and a third shot struck the car windshield when Pilsudski ducked.[150]
The first public radio broadcast inBulgaria was made, as the wireless telegraph station atSofia transmitted a recording of a concert that it had received from a German radiostation atNauen.[151]
Andy Albeck, Russian-born U.S. film executive and the last president ofUnited Artists before its financial problems forced it to merge with MGM Studios; inVladivostok (d. 2010)[153]
Lieutenant GeneralTette "Ted" Meines of the Netherlands Army, member of the Dutch resistance during World War II who saved numerous Jewish children in the Netherlands from deportation; inHuizum (d. 2016)[155]
Inelections for the Riksdag in Sweden, theSwedish Social Democratic Party strengthened its share of seats from 75 to 93, and prompted former Prime MinisterOscar von Sydow, who had been unable to govern, to step down on October 4 in favor ofHjalmar Branting. The election was the first in which women were allowed to vote, and the first in which persons formerly disenfranchised for unpaid debts were allowed to participate.[156][157]
The U.S. National Unemployment Conference was opened in Washington by President Harding, who then turned over the proceedings to Secretary of CommerceHerbert Hoover.[159]
Died:Walter Russell Lambuth, 66, Chinese-born American Methodist bishop and missionary who established multiple schools and hospitals in China, Korea and Japan.[97]
For the first time in more than six years, residents of the United Kingdom were allowed to have alcoholic beverages served to them at pubs, restaurants and hotels in the evening, as restrictions issued in 1915 under theDefence of the Realm Act 1914 (known by the acronym "D.O.R.A.") were lifted. Alcohol could be served up until midnight, and patrons were allowed until 12:30 in the morning to consume their drinks.[162]
The first radio station in Mexico went on the air, transmitting from the Chapultepec section of Mexico City at 20 watts of power.[163]
AtEvere Airfield inEvere,Belgium, fire broke out in the airplane hangar leased by the Belgian airlineSNETA (Syndicat national d'Etude des Transports Aériens), destroying one-third of the company's fleet (seven planes out of 21).[164][page needed][165][166]
The Assembly of the League of Nations voted to postpone any further discussion of disarmament for a year, and approved the attendance of its members at the upcomingWashington Disarmament Conference, in accordance with the recommendations made to the League on September 19.[97]
TheChicago Fire Department announced that an inspection of its records, pertaining to theGreat Chicago Fire of October 8, 1871, refuted the myth regarding "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow". The popular story had been that the fire, which had started with a blaze at a barn on137 DeKoven Street, had been caused when Mrs.Catherine O'Leary had gone into milk a cow on the evening of the fire and that the cow had kicked her, causing her to drop a lantern that set hay in the fire ablaze. A re-examination of the records, made in advance of observances of the 50th anniversary of the event, showed that Mrs. O'Leary had gone to bed at 8:30 that evening, one hour before the fire department had been alerted about the start of a fire.[167]
British Prime MinisterDavid Lloyd George sent a new invitation to Ireland's declared President,Éamon de Valera, proposing a "fresh invitation" to negotiations and discussion of Ireland's place as a nation within the British Empire.[175]
The U.S. Committee on Unemployment Statistics reported record high unemployment in the United States.[176]
Baseball'sNew York Giants, with a 93–57 record and three games left to play, clinched the National League pennant after the second-placePittsburgh Pirates dropped both games of a doubleheader to the third placeSt. Louis Cardinals, losing the first 5 to 4 and the second 3 to 1, dropping their record to 89–62 with three games left.[177] On September 16 and 17, the Giants had beaten the Pirates 5 to 0 and 6 to 1, the margin of difference, when at the season's end, the Giants finished four games ahead.
Born:
Hedda Lundh, Danish journalist and teacher who served as a resistance leader against the Nazi occupation of Denmark during World War II; inKorsør (d. 2012)[178]
Jackie Kahane, Canadian-born American standup comedian who was the warmup act for Elvis Presley's concerts; inMontreal (d. 2001)[179]
The peace treaty between the United States and Germany was ratified by the German Reichstag by avoice vote after having been approved earlier by the Reichsrat.[182][183][97]
American arbitrator Roland Boyden of the Allied Commission on Reparations ruled that Germany's obligations under the Treaty of Versailles required that reparations payments be made under the exchange rate that had existed for the German mark and the Belgian and French francs that had existed on November 11, 1918. The decision effectively required Germany to pay an additional one billion marks worth of gold to France.[97]
The first populationcensus of Poland after World War One was taken, and found that Poland had a population of 25,694,700 people, of whom 17,789,287 (or slightly less than 70%) were Polish Catholics. The remaining 30% were 3,898,428Ruthenians (Eastern Orthodox Poles); 2,048,878 Polish Jews; 1,035,693 Belarusians and 769,392 ethnic Germans.[184][page needed]
Born:
Deborah Kerr, Scottish film actress and six-time Academy Award for Best Actress nominee, 1957 Golden Globe winner for Best Actress forThe King and I; inHillhead,Glasgow (d.2007)[185]
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