Helen Lenore Roberts, age 16, the daughter of Tennessee's Governor Albert H. Roberts, at the April 30, 1919 launching of the USS Tennessee. Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The USS Tennessee, which was completed to late to serve in World War One but which would go on to see service in World War Two, was launched.
Dignitaries, including Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt and Governor Roberts, at the launching of the USS Tennessee.
The Tennessee was the first ship of its class, for which the class was named. She was at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, but was not sunk in the surprise attack. She went on to see service in nearly all of the principal Pacific engagments.
On the same day, pioneering Navy pilot Lt. Com. Patrick Bellinger was photographed.
Navy Pilot Patrick N. L. Bellinger, who would be part of the Navy's Trans Atlantic flight, photographed on this day in 1919.
The occasion was the naming of pilots who were to take part in the soon to be launched Navy Trans Atlantic flight. Bellinger would go on to complete a forty year career in the Navy and rise to flag officer rank during World War Two.
There was a lot of tense news also going around on April 30, 1919.
Italy had walked out of the Paris Peace Conference over the issue of the city of Fiume. Like a lot of European cities in this era, the population was quite mixed and no one state had really good claims to what had been a multi ethnic Austrian Empire port city. The Italians, however, did not see it that way.
The big news, however, was the launching of an anarchist terror campaign in the United States, the first bomb of which had gone off the day prior. A postal office worker realized the connection between the package which had gone off and others, so that more explosions did not occur immediately.
Also on that day was the news that the brewing of beer was to cease on May 1, 1919.
And Carranza's finances weren't looking good.
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