Today In Wyoming's History: October 27: 1922 The Schwartz Brothers Haberdashers store opened in Cheyenne. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
A military horse show took place in Washington, D.C. on this day in 1922.
Billy Mitchell was one of the competitors.
Elsewhere, a military funeral was also conducted.
Andrew Mellon was issuing new Treasury saving certificates.
Southern Rhodesia, which later became Rhodesia, and which is now Zimbabwe, held a referendum on joining South Africa. Voters rejected the proposal.
Italian Fascists took possession of cities around Italy as the March on Rome began. The mach was a mass demonstration that was also a slow rolling coup in progress intended, ultimately, to put so much pressure on the Italian government that it would fall, and the Fascists take control of the government. It would succeed in that aim.
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