Pearl Kane, a newspaper "girl" for the Washington Times, on July 18, 1921.
On this first day of the workweek, for most people, and more typically the first day of the workweek then, as opposed to now, the BCG vaccine for tuberculosis was administered for the first time in Paris, France.
Getting tuberculosis is bad.
Getting COVID 19 is bad too. If you haven't been vaccinated, get vaccinated.
Babe Ruth hit the longest home run in the history of major league baseball, 560 feet, which knocked the ball out of Tiger Stadium.
General Pershing inspected the troops at Camp Humphries, Virginia.
Camp Humphries was also spelled "Humphreys" and is now part of Ft. Belvoir.
It was a very active training range at this time, hosting not only units of the U.S. Army, but also ROTC.
Meanwhile, the United States Army Air Corps spent the day bombing the former German cruiser the SMS Frankfurt off of Virginia's coast.
Well, not the day. It sank within twenty-six minutes of being hit.
This was all part of Billy Mitchell's effort to prove that aircraft could sink ships, any ship, and that effectively they were now the premier service in the defense of the coast. . . it not more than that. The Navy didn't particularly like it, and it'd later end up providing part of the background to Mitchell's eventual court marshal.
Maxim Gorky, the still respected Soviet writer who was an occasional tool of the Stalin's wrote a letter on behalf of famine victims in the Soviet Union.
The famine was certainly real, brought on by the forced collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union.
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