The Greek government ratified the Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations, following the Turkish ratification two days prior.
1.5 million Orthodox Christians from Turkey were accordingly involuntarily sent to Greece and 500,000 Greek Muslims involuntarily sent to Turkey.
Violence broke out in Carnegie Pennsylvania when 10,000 Ku Klux Klansman held a rally on a nearby hill and moved towards the heavily Catholic town. Town residents threw rocks and ultimately a Klansman was shot dead.
Sometimes missed, the Klan was not only racist, but nativist, and anti-Catholic.
Memories of Klan violence still echo in Carnegie today
Germany put workers on the gold basis rate in an attempt to stem inflation.
The government was trying to stave off coal labor problems again.
And a lecturer declared Woodrow Wilson's idealism too advanced for the world.
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