The USS Colorado, the lead ship of the Colorado class of battleship, was launched on this day in 1921. Dignitaries were, of course, in attendance, including Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
Photograph shows Colorado Senator Samuel D. Nicholson, his daughter and sponsor of the battleship USS Colorado (BB-45), Ruth H. Melville (1894-1934), and Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887-1944) at the launching of the ship on March 22, 1921.
She served in the Pacific during World War Two, including receiving 22 hits from shore batteries during the landing at Tinian.
On the same day, the Navy suffered a tragedy when the airship A-5597 left Pensacola and, after being sighted last twenty miles offshore, disappeared.
Mrs. Coolidge and her sons were out on the town.
The German Weimar republic, which was already making a habit of thumbing its nose at its former enemies, saw one of its courts convict two American bounty hunters of false arrest in their effort to arrest fugitive draft dodger Grover Bergdoll, whom we've earlier discussed. They released the pair on March 31.
Turkey's unrecognized, at that time, republican government adopted the Istiklal Marsi as its national anthem. The "Independence March" remains the country's national anthem to this day.
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