Calvin Coolidge was nominated for President at the GOP convention.
The Newton Gang robbed the express mail train number 57 of the Milwaukee Road (the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad) near Rondout, Illinois. The train was stopped at the time. The gang made away with more than $3M, worth about $54.3M today. Their success was brief as one of their own members wounded another, preventing their escape.
Asphyxiation following a main battery turret explosion killed 44 crewmen of the USS Mississippi. The incident was the largest peacetime loss of life in the Navy up to that time.
The ship would serve until 1956 and was broken up in 1957.
George H. W. Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts.
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