Friday, September 15, 2023

Saturday, September 15, 1923. Strife

Miguel Primo de Rivera sworn in as Prime Minister by King Alfonso XIII, who suspended the Spanish Constitution at his behest.  The appointment was in an effort to give the recent military coup the cover of legitimacy.


Oklahoma Governor Jack C. Walton declared statewide "absolute martial law" in order to combat the Ku Klux Klan.  Habeaus corpus was suspended in Tulsa County.

Marguerite Albert was acquitted of murdering her husband, Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey at London's Savoy Hotel.  You'll recall that she killed him on July 10, showing how quickly such maters proceeded in an earlier era.

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