Adolf Hitler, Ernst Pöhner, Hermann Kriebel and Friedrich Webe were sentenced to five years for his attempted overthrow of the German government. Erich Ludendorff was acquitted.
Hitler was released from incarceration in December, giving the world a sometimes unheeded lesson about the failure to treat coups seriously.
Northern Rhodesia, which is now Zambia, became a British protectorate, its status as a private colony administered by the British South Africa Company having ended.
The Royal Canadian Air Force received royal assent from King George V, having previously been the Canadian Air Force.
Calvin Coolidge gave a press conference, as he very frequently did. Replacing Daughter was a major topic in it.
The National Guard was still in the process of re-forming, literary, following Wilson's haphazard discharging of the conscripted Guard, which came about due to an odd process itself, following World War One. We've dealt with that elsewhere. The Wyoming National Guard (it was all the Army National Guard at the time) was being reformed as cavalry, rather than infantry, as it had been before the war, and had, by that time, taken on its new unit designation of the 115th Cavalry Regiment.
As part of that process, the Guard now had a newspaper.
The paper is interesting as it demonstrated the early organization of the 115th, with the Headquarters Troop being located in Laramie.
This from Reddit's 100 Years Ago sub, the Radio News was correctly predicting medicine, and television, and maybe the Internet, of the future.
Frank Capone, age 28, was shot by Chicago police in a gun battle. He was the older brother of Al Capone.
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