Sixteen year old Margaret Dorman, whom we've already discussed on this site, was crowned the first Miss America in what was then called the Inner-City Beauty Contest.
Beauty contests are, its frequently noted, rather odd and antiquated, even though they still occur. At least Miss Gorman never seems to have taken the whole matter seriously.
On the same day the Catholic organization The Legion of Mary was founded by Irish civil servant Frank Duff in Dublin Today it's the largest Catholic apostolic lay organization in the world.
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