Bulgaria gave former King Ferdinand, who had been in exile since 1918, permission to return to Sofia.
Kings in exile are more philosophic under reverses than ordinary individuals; but our philosophy is primarily the result of tradition and breeding, and do not forget that pride is an important item in the making of a monarch. We are disciplined from the day of our birth and taught the avoidance of all outward signs of emotion. The skeleton sits forever with us at the feast. It may mean murder, it may mean abdication, but it serves always to remind us of the unexpected. Therefore we are prepared and nothing comes in the nature of a catastrophe. The main thing in life is to support any condition of bodily or spiritual exile with dignity. If one sups with sorrow, one need not invite the world to see you eat.
Yugoslavia issued an ultimatum objecting to his return.
He in fact did not return, and having taken steps to secure his fortune, lived a quasi bucolic life, marked by family tragedy, and carried on in Germany, dying in 1948. The prior year, he married a third time, to his secretary, age 26.
Simon & Schuster, the legendary publishing house, was formed.
The U.S. Winter Olympic team left for the first Winter Olympics.
The Constitutionalist government of Mexico reported that is forces had achieved a victory over the rebels of Adolfo de la Huerta at Zacualpan.
The war in Mexico, and other age-old lethal vices, were making headlines far away:
Flooding in Paris closed the railroads.
Sabine Baring-Gould, composer of "Onward, Christian Soldiers", died at age 89. Clara Abbott, American businesswoman who had been the first woman to serve on the board of a major American corporation, Abbott Laboratories, died at age 66.
United States Senators Frazier and Johnson were photographed working.
A new flag for Iowa was unveiled.
It is, frankly, ugly.
It had been adopted in 1921. Iowa had lacked one before that.
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