Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King won a by-election for the representative for Prince Albert, Saskatchewan district, ending the situation of a Prime Minister governing without his own seat in the Parliament
Air mail through a commercial air carrier was accomplished in the U.S. for the firs time.
Ford Motors was the contracted carrier.
Mehmet Celal Bey, Turkish Ottoman administrator who declined to carry out orders during the Armenian genocide, died at age 62. He paid for his refusal with his official position.'
He compared himself to "a person sitting by the side of a river, with absolute no means of saving anyone. Blood was flowing in the river and thousands of innocent children, irreproachable old people, helpless women, strong young men, were streaming down this river towards oblivion. Anyone I could save with my bare hands I saved, and the others, I think they streamed down the river never to return."
In another context, he'd be regarded as a "righteous amongst the nations"
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