Then, as now, it was the 4th of July holiday, and all the usual events occured, including parades and events of all sorts.
This event happened at Takoma Park, Maryland.
In the West, numerous rodeos were held, but in Shelby, Montana, something else was tried Jack Dempsey fought Tommy Gibbons.
Shelby was a small oil town and only about 7,000 of the 20,000 spectators paid to see the fight, causing a large financial loss to the promoters. Some of the deficit, like that of the much later major event of Woodstock, would be made up by promoting a movie of the event.
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A crowd of up to 200,000 attended a Ku Klux Klan rally in Kokomo, Indiana in what may have been the largest rally in its history.
The Klan was very strong in Indiana at the time.
Stunt pilot B. H. DeLay died when his plane, later thought to be sabotaged, crashed. Passenger R. I. Short also died in the event, which occured at Venice, California.. DeLay had been involved in a heated dispute over an airport, but no suspects were ever arrested for sabotage to his plane.
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