Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Thursday, August 31, 1922. Flying cameras, murderous Communists, economic reprieve, drunk driving criminals, Russia of the recent past.

 

The Untied State's military was experimenting with areal cameras and gun cameras on this day in 1922.



Both would become airborne staples in future years.

Mongolian Prime Minister Dambyn Chagdarjav and his successor Dogsomyn Bodoo were executed, a fate common to early Communist who were often murdered on trumped-up charges by their own regimes.

Germany was granted a six-month reprieve of reparations payments by the Allied Reparations Commission.

Al Capone was arrested for hitting a taxicab while driving drunk.  He had also threatened to shoot one of the witnesses.

Life came out with an American Russian edition.  It'd be interesting to know what the contents of that issue were.  It depicted a Russia that was now in the past.



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