On this day in 1922 Luigi Facta, Prime Minister of Italy, and his ministers turned in their resignations to King Victor Emmanuel III.
Facta had wanted to declare martial law, which declared the King's signature. Victor Emmanuel refused, having sent Facta a secret note as to his decision. Facta never revealed the contents. He and his cabinet resigned in protest.
Facta would die in 1930 with the public believing that he'd been to weak to encounter Mussolini, when in fact the opposite had been his desire.
U.S. Navy Lt. Commander Godfrey Chevalier became the first person to land an airplane on an American aircraft carrier. He'd die the following month in an airplane crash at age 33.
Probably unusually for a pilot at the time, he wore glasses.
Juli Lynne Charlot, singer and designer of the poodle skirt, was born in New York. She's still living.
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