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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The USS Arizona was launched.
The press was reporting that Carranza was in retreat, which was correct.
The Danish monarchy decreed that Iceland could have its own flag.
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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German forces retook the lost Austro Hungarian fortress of Przemyśl.
British forces repulsed a major Ottoman counter attack at Gallipoli.
Women obtained the franchise in Denmark and Iceland.
The U-14 was sunk in the North Sea by the HMT Oceanic II.
The HMS E-11 slipped back through the Dardanelles.
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Mayan rebels attacked the town of Valladolid, Mexico. They killed 40 people, including local police resulting in the dispatch of the gunboat Morelos with 600 troops.
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Australian troops beat back the last major Ottoman attack at Gallipoli. On the same day, New Zealand troops captured a defense post overlooking ANZAC Cove.
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