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Thursday, September 7, 2023

Friday, September 7, 1923. Interpol founded.

Interpol was founded as the International Criminal Police Commission in Vienna.  It changed its name in 1956.


Katherine Campbell won the Miss America pageant for the second time, being the only person ever to do so, and making her the second and third Miss America.  

The rules of this odd, archaic event barred running after being crowned in subsequent years.

Students at the Massachusetts Naval School, now the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, were photographed on the Nantucket, a masted sailing ship.







Founded in 1891, up until 1990 it was strictly a merchant marine school.