Workmen posing before the launch of the USS Neches, Boston Navy Yard, June 2, 1920. The ship was an oiler that would serve for 22 years until sunk by the Japanese submarine I-72 on January 23, 1942.
On the same day a Shia revolt commenced in Iraq. Known as the Great Iraqi Revolt, the revolution would run its course for months before the British were able to put it down. The British would deploy aircraft using air delivered poisonous gas during the war and at least 8,000 Iraqi lives were lost during the conflict, as well as 500 British lives.
The United States Congress rejected the proposal that the country engage in a League of Nations mandate over Armenia.
