Marines landed at Nanjing to patrol near the university and to protect Americans in the vicinity.
Costa Rica, unhappy with the League of Nations failure to address regional issues, withdrew form the body.
The French mandate states of Aleppo and Damascus were united in the State of Syria.
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President Coolidge gave a press conference on the boundary dispute between Chile and Peru.
The Soviets disavowed Imperial Russian debts.
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Actor Humphrey Bogart was born in New York City.
His father was a heart surgeon and mother a commercial illustrator whose work was highly valued. He served in the Navy in World War One and turned to acting in 1922.
He died in 1957 at age 57.
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Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, December 20, 1924. Hitler released from...: That really didn't work out the way predicted. All the magazines had a Christmas theme that Saturday. Last edition: Wednesday, Decembe...
Watching the gutless wonders in the Republican Party bend over to receive the ramblings of a seemingly demented billionaire, or try to excuse them away as not serious, should give us serious pause.
It's easy to dismiss such stuff as nonsense. The problem with the nonsensical is that they believe what they say, and will act upon it.
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Constantine VI, the Metropolitan of Derkoi, was elected as the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
Prior to his election, Turkey had warned that they regarded him as subject to deportation as he was an immigrant to what was now Turkey.
All but one of the owners of the teams in the American League presented a statement to Commissioner Landis that actions would be taken to bring League President Ban Johnson's behavior to heel. He had been criticizing Landis, but ceased to do so.
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The Republic of Mali invaded the Republic of Upper Volta (Burkina Faso) in a border conflict over water rights.
The United States Senate unanimously (93 to 0) ratified the Geneva Protocol, the "Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare", almost 50 years after it had first been signed signed in Switzerland on June 17, 1925, and became effective on February 28, 1928.
Hmmm. . . .
The Safe Drinking Water Act was signed into law.
Probably wouldn't happen today.
ANZUK, a military unit created in 1971 by agreement of Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, was disbanded after slightly more than two years of having been in existence.
No surprise, given the Vietnam War and the "winds of change".
The Towering Inferno premiered. I recall seeing it in the theaters with a friend on a Saturday afternoon, even though I was 11 years old. It was awful.
Frankly, they shouldn't have let us in the movie at all. I'm sure we walked down and watched it, but it features a totally stupid 1970s example of full frontal that serves no purpose other than to be a toss out to the Playboy ethos of the era, which no 11 year old, or 21 year old, or 61 year old, should have to put up with.
It also, fwiw, runs down the National Guard, in the 1970s post Vietnam War style.
And the plot is moronic. One of the 1970s scare movies.
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The Spanish confiscation (Desamortización española) law, authorizing the government of Spain to steal the property and lands of the Catholic Church, a popular enlightenment and Reformation despoliation that happened in many places, was repealed.
The barbarity had been in place since 1766.
Amongst other things, the law resulted in millions of acres of forest falling into private hands, being deforested, with the cost of reforestation exceeding the value of their sales. The confiscations of the 19th Century were one of the biggest environmental disasters in Iberian history.
The Supreme Court of Hungary confiscated the property of former president Mihály Károlyi for high treason. He had been convicted of negotiating with Italy in 1915 to keep the Italians out of World War One in exchange for Austrian territory, and for allowing a communist revolution to happen in 1919 by deserting his position.
Former Albanian Prime Minister Ahmet Zogu, the future King Zog the First, led an invasion of Albania with guerrillas backed by Yugoslavia.
And, it was a Saturday.
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The Central Executive Committee of the USSR issued a decree prohibiting the possession of almost all firearms, with the exception of shotguns for hunting, although much hunting in much of Russia, which was fairly common, was in fact done with rifles by necessity.
Following 1933, the penalty for violation was five years imprisonment. In 1935 knives were added to the list.
During World War Two the ban was expanded with all firearms being required to be turned over to the state, although following the war, the USSR was awash in captured German weapons.
Presently, rifles may be registered for hunting.
The USSR/Russia we might note, shares this status with Ireland, in being a country whose freedom, if you will, was brought about through the private exercise of arms, that then went around banning them. In the USSR's case it isn't too surprising, as armed resistance against the Communists continued on into the 1930s in some areas and revived during the Second World War, to continue on until nearly 1950 after the war.
Truly, there's a lesson here.
The first issue of the weekly Saudi Arabian newspaper Umm Al-Qura, the official newspaper of the Saudi government, was published
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The Nobel Prizes for 1924 were announced. Recipients were honorees were Manne Siegbahn of Sweden for Physics, Willem Einthoven of the Netherlands (Medicine), and Władysław Reymont of Poland (Literature).
The Society for Human Rights (SHR) was organized in Illinois. It's charter provided that its mission as one "to promote and protect the interests of people who by reasons of mental and physical abnormalities are abused and hindered in the legal pursuit of happiness which is guaranteed them by the Declaration of Independence and to combat the public prejudices against them by dissemination of factors according to modern science among intellectuals of mature age." It advocated for rights for homosexuals. It's founders were arrested in 1925 and the organization came to an end.
Gold was discovered near the village of Boliden in Sweden.
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France rounded up over 300 communists in raids on their headquarters, including some 70 foreign ones.
Prime Minister Herriot stated: "There are too many foreign communists in France who forget their duty to the country that has given them asylum. They are indulging in political demonstrations, and we will not tolerate it, we will not let them meddle in our political life. If we meet with resistance we will break it, and we will deport as many as necessary."
