The national anthem of the Republic of Ireland, Amhrán na bhFiann (A Soldier's Song) was officially adopted as Ireland's national anthem.
The irony is, of course, that Ireland won its independence through the use of small arms, in an era in which the British had much more lax gun control. Ireland is amongst the most restrictive nations regarding gun control today.
General Motors acquired the Flint Institute of Technology in Michigan and renamed it the General Motors Institute of Technology. It is now known as Kettering University.
Gertrude Bell, archeologist, writer, spy, and friend of T. E. Lawrence died at age 57.
Bell never married. Starting in 1892 she was courted by British diplomat Henry Cadogan but was refused permission to marry him after her father discovered that Cadogan was deeply in debt and not her social equal. Cadogan died in 1893. Thereafter she was briefly involved with British colonial administrator Sir Frank Swettenham and then Major Charles Doughty-Wylie, a married man, with whom she exchanged love letters from 1913 to 1915 but did not stray beyond that. Doughty-Wylie died in April 1915 during the Gallipoli Campaign, which devastated Bell.
Her death was due to an overdose of sleeping pills. It is not known if it was accidental or a suicide.
She was the founder of the Iraqi Museum.
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