William Howard Taft was nominated, and confirmed, as Chief Justice of the United States.
It's a position that, unlike the Presidency, he'd very much wanted. In fact, he'd been lobbying behind the scenes for it and believed he'd been promised the position during Harding's campaign. Harding had in fact promised to another person, a Senator, as well.
The United Kingdom released a number of IRA prisoners from prison in anticipation of opening talks with Sinn Fein. On the same day, Sweden abolished the death penalty.
General Electric, RCA and AT&T entered into an agreement with Westinghouse to develop common technologies for radios in an effort to boost that budding technology.
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