A cold snap hit Washington, D. C.
As noted for this day, among other things, on our companion blog This Day In Wyoming's History, a disaster struck in Evanston..
1922 On this day in 1926, the Joss House, a Chinese house of traditional worship, burned down in Evanston.
In spite of really pronounced discrimination against them, southeastern Wyoming retained a significant Chinese and Japanese population into the mid 20th Century, reflecting a population that had been brought into the region due to the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad. Following World War Two the population largely dispersed and this is no longer true.
Pope Benedict XV was buried in St. Peter's Basilica on this day.
An anti lynching bill was passed in the House of Representatives, but it never came to a vote in the Senate.
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