The Gros Ventre landslide near Jackson occurred following heavy rains and a 4.0 magnitude earthquake. Approximately 38,000,000 m3 (1.3×109 cu ft) of sedimentary rock came down the Tetons, dammed a river, and created the Lower Slide Lake. The dam partially failed in 1927, wiping out Kelly.
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Nguyen Ai Quoc (Ho Chi Minh) founded the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League (Việt Nam Thanh niên Cách mệnh Đồng chí Hội; chữ Hán: 越南青年革命同志會) in Guangzhou, China. It was Vietnam's first Communist organization and had the support of the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang.
It'd dissolve due to internal splits in 1929.
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Benito Mussolini launched "The Battle for Grain" ("La battaglia del grano"), aimed at increasing Italy's wheat production to the point of becoming completely self-sufficient.
FWIW, today Italy uses a lot of Ukrainian wheat.
Audie Murphy was born into a sharecropping family in Hunt County, Texas. He'd grow up under difficult conditions, learning to hunt in order to help feed his large family, and leaving school to pick cotton in fifth grade.
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"Battling Bob" La Follette, Socialist Senator from Wisconsin, died at age 70. He'd been ill since 1923.
The German Reichsgericht, struck down a law confiscating of all the demesne lands of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to widespread public dissatisfaction.
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The Geneva Protocol, officially the "Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare", was signed in Switzerland by representatives of Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Turkey, the United Kingdom United States Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Denmark, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Greece, British India, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Nicaragua, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Siam, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Arguably US use of CS gas in Vietnam violated the treaty. The USSR violated it with lethal gas in Afghanistan.
The first National Spelling Bee was held in Washington, D.C.
The competition was won by 11-year-old Frank Neuhauser of Kentucky, who became a patent lawyer in his adulthood.
A sad Flapper Fanny went to print.
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The Amundsen Polar Expedition team of six explorers, stranded since May 22 near the North Pole, was able to depart on Amundsen's Dornier Wal N-25 seaplane. A second seaplane was left behind.
The Philadelphia Athletics tied the record for greatest comeback in a major league baseball game. Trailing 14 to 2, after six innings, the Athletics scored 13 runs in the eighth inning to win, 17 to 15, tying the record set on June 18, 1911 by the Detroit Tigers against the Chicago White Sox.
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Canada's largest protestant denomination, the United Church of Canada, was created by the merger of the Methodist Church, Canada and the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec, as well as most of the congregations of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, and the Association of Local Union Churches. The union is surprising in that the base churches had real theological differences.
The Catholic Church is the largest church in Canada overall.
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The Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial was unveiled in France on grounds where the Battle of the Somme had been fought.
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Walter P. Chrysler incorporated the company that bears his name.
The Great Syrian Revolt against the French started when representatives of the Jabal Druze State were treated poorly by the French administrator. Syrian rejection of French rule, however, had been smouldering since the end of World War One.
Indeed, this ties right into the events we've been otherwise cataloging regarding France at the end of World War One. Syria and Lebanon had been granted near independence during the war, which France tried to renege on as soon as the Germans were defeated. Only British intervention, which nearly resulted in fighting between the French and British, stopped that from occurring and assured rapid Syrian and Lebanese independence. French insistence on occupying the same territory at the end of the Great War nearly resulted in fighting between the same two European powers then and France had never been welcome by most of the regions inhabitants.
French attachment to the region is hard to really explain, but it is in part cultural and goes all the way back to the Kingdom of Jerusalem,1099–1187, 1192-1291, the long running "Crusader Kingdom" in the same region. Lasting almost two hundred years, the kingdom, which was mostly governed by French Crusaders, formed a strong cultural attachment to the region with the French.
The Saturday magazines hit the stands.
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Marines in Shanghai and Amundsen lost.
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This is the birthday of Malcolm Little, known to history as Malcolm X.
I've discussed him to some extent here on this blog before, but I had neglected to enter him as a topic category until today. An extremely intelligent man and the son of a Baptist lay minister, he had undergone a continuing religious evolution and was a Muslim at the time of his murder. I suspect that, had he lived, he would have returned to Christianity.
It is also the birthday of Pol Pot
Pol Pot has featured on this blog a lot recently. Born Saloth Sâr the Cambodian Communist leader would go down in history as one of the greatest mass murderers of all time. Quite well educated, he became a Communist while studying in France after World War Two. He died in exile in 1998.
Casey Stengel played his last major league game.
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