The Kimes-Terrill Gang and the Al Spencer Gang robbed a train on the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railorad near Okemah, Oklahoma.
It was one of the last train robberies in the U.S.
The USS Shenandoah was launched for the first time, but was tethered and not under power. It was the first US rigid airship to use helium.
Strikes broke out in the Ruhr and Rhineland. German inflation, it might be noted, was now massively out of control.
Stretching a decline in public morals, Broadway began a 312 performance run of Artists and Models which featured nude and seminude female subjects. Rather obviously, going to peep at the nude subjects was the only purpose to go to the "review".
It's sometimes noted that The Roaring Twenties was as prelude to the 1960s in lots of ways. More accurately, the 1930s and the Great Depression interrupted trends started in the 20s which revived in the 60s, including this one.
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