"Battling Bob" La Follette, Socialist Senator from Wisconsin, died at age 70. He'd been ill since 1923.
The German Reichsgericht, struck down a law confiscating of all the demesne lands of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to widespread public dissatisfaction.
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Paul von Hindenburg was sworn in for a seven-year term as President of Germany.
William Jennings Bryan agreed to participate in the prosecution of John Scopes.
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Aging German war hero Paul von Hindenburg won the runoff of the German presidential election.
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The Nazi Party reconstituted itself as the Nationalsozialistische Freiheitspartei, or the National Socialist Freedom Party. . . hmmm. . . that has a familiar ring to it.
It had a new flag designed by Adolf Hitler.
President Coolidge held a press conference.
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President Coolidge signed the Federal Arbitration Act into law, allowing contractual facilitation of resolving private disputes through arbitration.
For some reason, I don't see the GOP supporting that today.
Imperial Russia's last Prime Minister Nikolai Golitsyn was arrested by the Soviets. He'd be tried and, of course, executed.
German miners in Dortmund stopped work in sympathy with the victims of the Stein mine explosion and a protest against dangerous mining conditions.
The Belgian airline SABENA (Societé anonyme belge d'Exploitation de la Navigation aérienne) started the air travel between Europe and Central Africa, the first airline to do so.
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Weimar Germany presented a conciliatory memorandum to France proposing a mutual guarantee of the existing border between the two countries.
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The Supreme Court of Kansas issued a ruling that the Ku Klux Klan was a corporation organized for profit. This had the result of banning the organization from Kansas as it could not receive a corporate charter there.
The clause of the Treaty of Versailles requiring it to grant most favored nation status to the Allied Powers of World War One expired.
France declined to withdraw form the Rhineland in spite of the negotiated date for that occurring on the baes that Germany, in its view, had violated the disarmament provisions of the treaty.
The British submarine HMH L24 sank after hitting the HMS Resolution, resulting in the loss o fits complete crew of 43.
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The Weimar Republic announced the first balanced German budget since the end of World War One.
The Soviet Union produced its first domestically manufactured motor vehicle, the AMO-15 truck.
The Alvarado Hot Springs was created when a natural gas exploratory well taped into a geothermal pool in Los Angeles County. It was operated commercially as a hot springs facility until at least 1961, following which it seem to have disappeared from history.
2BE began operating commercially, broadcasting twice a week, in Sydney. Australia's first commercial radio station would close in 1929.
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The first Canadian elections under the Indian Act were held for the Six Nations Band of Indians Council.
And also elections were held for the Norwegian parliament, resulted in a continuation of the coalition government between the Conservatives and the liberal Venstre.
The German National People's Party issued a proclamation announcing itself in favor of restoring the monarchy and terminating the Treaty of Versailles and the Dawes Plan.
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From Reddit's 100 Years Ago Sub:
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Incarcerated menace Adolf Hitler published a statement admitting that he was born in Austria, not Germany, but arguing that he had lost his Austrian citizenship after volunteering to serve in the German Army during World War I . He claimed that mentally, he'd always been a German.
He nonetheless did not renounce his Austrian citizenship until 1925, and didn't acquire German citizenship until 1932.
Ma Rainey recorded See See Rider, the first known recording of the blues standard which has an unknown origin and date of origin. It's at least a couple of decades older than the recording.
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Adolf Hitler approved the Ardennes Offensive "Wacht am Rhein", known in the west as the Battle of the Bulge.
Market Garden, the semi failed or wholly failed, hastily put together Allied invasion of The Netherlands hadn't even commenced yet and therefore makes for a remarkable contrast. The Germans were planning a mid winter offensive and it was still summer, showing planning foresight, but also an appreciate at some level of the inevitability of further retreats into the winter.
The Red Army took Sofia, Bulgaria. They then turned west to attempt to block the Germans from retreating from Greece.
The fronts were drawing close.
A general strike broke out in Denmark over deportations by the Germans.
The Royal Navy raided Sigli in Northern Sumatra.
The Second Quebec Conference ended. The course of combat across the globe was ratified, wit there being an additional agreement for a campaign in Burma, and the British joining American forces in the Pacific in its final campaigns against the British, something the US would effectively recant on as the war drew to a close.
Gustav Bauer, German Chancellor in 1919 and 1920, and very briefly a prisoner of the early Third Reich, died.
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The Dawes Plan went into effect.
Germany replaced paper marks with a coin, due to hyperinflation.
Clashes with the Ku Klux Klan resulted in six deaths in Herrin Illinois.
The French High Commission of the Levant created Lebanese citizenship.
Edwards, Prince of Wales, met with Calvin Coolidge.
Saturday magazines were out.
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AT&T announced that a color photograph had been successfully transmitted from Chicago to New York via Wirephoto.
The German built, due to reparations, USS Los Angeles made its first flight.
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Chancellor Wilhelm Marx informed the Reichstag that he would ratify the London agreement whether the Reichstag approved it or not and even if it meant a downfall of the government and new elections.
The Cheyenne paper pointed out that summer was drawing to a close.
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