The Irish Free State held its first election. The Cumann na nGaedheal party, led by Prime Minister W. T. Cosgrave, won 63 seats and the Irish Republicans led by Éamon de Valera received 44. That left Cosgrave short of the 77 seats he needed for a majority, but the Republicans, exercising the goofball strategy of abstentionism, refused to take their seats, and the Irish Farmers Party joined Cosgrave in a coalition.
The Farmers Party was an agrarian party that faded in the 20s, ceasing to exist in 1932.
Italian General Enrico Tellini, on a League of Nation's mission to inspect the border between Greece and Albania, was ambushed and killed. The Italians blamed the Greeks which would soon result in a crisis, although they identity of the killers was never established.
Miss Washington, D.C. Lorraine Bunch was photographed.
A train derailed at Suman, Indiana.
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