Friday, April 11, 1924. Closing borders.

Japan, through its U.S. delegation, warned the US that grave consequences would occur if the Senate passed the Immigration Act of 1924 which limited immigration from Asian nations.

The noted was passed to the Chairman of the Senate Immigration Committee, LeBaron B. Colt.

On April 19, the U.S. Senate voted, 62 to 6, to pass the bill, which had already passed the House.

Arizona closed its border with California as part of an effort to prevent an outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease.

4,000 Germans staged a demonstration in Breslau in favor of Crown Prince Wilhelm, son of the former Kaiser, to return to Germany as Kaiser Wilhelm III.  On the same day, the German Association of Industry released a statement expressing approval of the Dawes Plan.

Casper was no longer blue.

It hadn't been for very long.

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Thursday, April 10, 1924. Best dressed in the world?

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Tuesday, March 25, 1924. Casper goes blue.

Senator George W. Pepper of Pennsylvania. at the bat with the Page boys at the Capitol, 25 March 1924

Casper adopted a blue law:

I wish we had one now.

I really do.

Also, while De la Huerta was now in exile, some fighting was apparently still going on, tragically.

The Greek parliament voted to boot out the monarchy and declare a republic, subject to an April 13, 1924 referendum.

British aviators joined in a de facto race with the US Army in attempting to be the first to complete an airborne circumnavigation of the world, when British teams departed from Calshot, near South Hampton.

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Monday, March 24, 1924. Aid for the German poor.

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Sunday, January 20, 1974. First flight of the F-16.

First flight of the F-16.

YF-16, the aircraft before official adoption, and YF-17, a Northrup aircraft that did not gain acceptance.

It was an accident.  During high speed ground test a horizontal stabilizer was damaged and the test pilot took the aircraft off due to the severe oscillations it was experiencing. 

One of the greatest fighter aircraft of all time, it remains in production, although not for the U.S.

English professional soccer was played for the first time in history on a Sunday.

Argentina's People's Revolutionary Army attacked the headquarters of the 10th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Azul in the Buenos Aires province. President Juan Perón vowed "to annihilate as soon as possible this criminal terrorism" later that same day.

The Dutch oil tanker Kopionella rescued 23 South Vietnamese sailors who had survived the Chinese sinking of the South Vietnamese Nhat Tao during the Battle of the Paracel Islands.

On the same day, the Chinese took 47 ARVN soldiers and one U.S. advisor prisoner, although they were later be released.

Sunday, June 17, 1923. Dry Sunday

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.

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.