Sunday, July 4, 2021

Monday, July 4, 1921. Independence Day.

July 4, 1921, was a Monday, and a day of celebratory parades across the nation.

There were some protests too, including this protesting parade float from that day, protesting Prohibition.

Source:  Reddit's 100 Years Ago Today Subreddit.

Walter Reed Hospital had a parade.




And in the Petworth District of Washington D. C. there was also a cebration.



Events in Vienna Virginia featured a horse race.






In Ireland, Eamon de Valera held a peace conference in Dublin.  Various southern Unionist attended, but James Craig, the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, refused as his invitation was wrongly addressed.

The U.S. Navy took stations off of Tampico in anticipation of rioting due to refineries being shut down as a result of the recent Mexican tariff on oil exports increase.

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