Captain Edward H. Watson ordered a squadron of 14 ships to make a fast passage to San Diego in heavy fog resulting in the USS Delphy, USS S. P. Lee, USS Young, USS Woodbury, USS Nicholas, USS Fuller and USS Chauncey beaching and sustaining irreparable damage.
It remains the largest peacetime loss in U.S. Navy History.
Watson was court-martialed for the event. He was not universally condemned for the disaster, which some attributed to a failure in newly developed technology. He went on to be Assistant Commandant of the Fourteenth Naval District in Hawaii until he left active duty in November 1929. He died at age 67 in 1942.
After killing innocent people to achieve them, Italy's demands were adopted by the ambassadors appointed to mediate the dispute.
Boston's Logan airport opened.
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