March 28, 1920. Tornadic outbreaks, Typhus, Bulgarian elections, and movies.

Released on this date in 1920.  This is a lost, and then rediscovered, film and has been shown in a theater as recently as 2015.  Note, on the left page, the allegorical human figure painted into the downed timber depiction.

March 28 was Palm Sunday in 1920.  

On that date a deadly cluster of at least 37 tornadoes destroyed towns and lives throughout the Midwest and Deep South, showing the extent of the storm system that day.  Between 200 and 400 lives were lost, with about 200 deaths occurring in Georgia alone.  It remains one of the worst tornadic events in American history.

Post tornado view of Elgin, Illinois.

A disaster of another type, contaminated water, was plaguing Casper.  Casper would have outbreaks of waterborne diseases for years, including typhus.

In faraway Bulgaria, agrarians won the parliamentary election held on this date, with the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union taking 110 of 229 seats.  It was the only one of Europe's once numerous agrarian parties to come to power through controlling a majority of seats in a parliament.

Flag of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union.  The cloverleaf symbol was used by many European agrarian parties as well as a pan European organization made up of agrarian parties.  Orange is a color often used by European "center" parties due to its association with Christian Democratic parties.  The BANU was centerist, but it was not a Christian Democratic party.

While a minor party today, the BANU still exists as a Bulgarian political party.