President Harding sent a message to the Senate asking for it to grant him authority to join the World Court. The Senate instead chose not to vote on the matter.
916 America, a minor planet orbiting the Sun in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, acquired that name after the Council of Astronomers at Pulkovo Observatory in the Soviet Union decided to commemorate "the friendly relations of the astronomical observatories and astronomers".
The asteroid has a diameter of 33.2±1.3 km, with an absolute magnitude of 11.20 and an albedo of 0.053±0.004.
Fred Steiner, composer of the Star Trek, Hogan's Heroes and Gunsmoke theme songs, was born in New York.
The following letter was issued by the Department of the Interior to "All Indians".
