King George V and Queen Mary opened a new session of Parliament.
The first radio play, ever, was broadcast by the BBC. The play was entitled Danger. The play, which as endured and been rebroadcast over the years, involves a plot featuring a young couple and an older man trapped in a pitch-black flooding mine.
The French Cabinet drafted a plan to stabilize the cascading franc. It called for tax hikes and a reduction in the size of the civil service.
The SMS Berlin of the republican German navy, the Reichsmarine left for a two-month tour of the North Atlantic, the first German warship to do so since World War One.
Ensign of the Reichsmarine.
The current German Navy is called the Deutsch Marine. Its ensign is as follows:
The Berlin was a prewar ship that had been retained under the Versailles Treaty. She would not be in service much longer, being decommissioned in 1929, even though she had been modernized and recommissioned in 1922. She became a barracks ship in Kiel that year, and survived World War Two. in 1947 she was loaded with chemical weapons and towed out and sank thereby becoming a lasting problem to later generations.
