The Irish Free State saw its pubs swamped with visitors as Northern Ireland experienced its first "Dry Sunday", a day brought about due to a new law in Ulster.
Northern Ireland, reflecting its Presbyterian heritage, had a particularly notable set of Blue Laws. Soccer was banned on Sundays prior to 2008. Public playgrounds were closed on Sundays, and swings locked, in Belfast until 1965. Stores over 280 square meters in size are still restricted to the hours of 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays.
Mount Etna erupted.
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Released on this day in 1923. The plot involved a woman who is widowed at 38 and takes a job as a college librarian and starts dating over the objection of her children.
