Miriam "Ma" Ferguson became the first female governor of Texas and the second, after Nellie Tayloe Ross, in the United States.
The Italian Chamber of Deputies repealed the "plural voting" provision in the electoral bill passed the previous day.
That didn't last long.
It was Saturday.
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Obviously, certain symbols hadn't acquired their current meaning.
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Huddie Ledbetter, aka "Lead Belly", was granted a full pardon by Texas Governor Pat Morris Neff Neff for having served the minimum seven years of his prison sentence for the 1918 killing of Will Stafford, a relative of his, in a fight over a woman.
It was a least his second period of incarceration, with his first being in 1915 for carrying a handgun, something that would not be a crime now.
While in prison for homicide, he'd be stubbled in the neck by another inmate, resulting in a permanent scar.
The pardon came about due to Ledbetter writing the Governor and seeking the same, and the Governor visiting him more than once in prison.
Ledbetter would return to prison in 1930 for attempted homicide and 1939 for assault.
Perhaps not a pacific man, he was the greatest American folk musician and one of the greatest blue musicians of all time. He was personally responsible for the survival of the twelve string guitar. He was principally a bluesman, but the blues had not quite stabilized into its form at the time, and not all of his music fits the genera. Indeed, this so much the case that at least one of his songs that is typically preformed as a blue piece, The Midnight Special, was not performed quite that way by Leadbelly. He became known to the general public due to John Lomax's recordings of him in 1933, at which time he was again in prison.
Leadbelly was born in Louisiana in 1888 or 1889, and died of Lou Gehrigs disease in 1946 at age 61 or 62. He took to music early and learned to paly the mandolin, accordion, guitar, harmonica, Jew’s harp, piano, and organ, with his principal instructor's being his uncles, Bob and Terrell Ledbetter.
His songs are widely preformed to this day, and once were part of the American music canon taught to school children. Interestingly enough, he's associated with the first recorded use of the word "woke", in a spoken item after a song in which he stated; "So I advise everybody, be a little careful when they go along through there—best stay woke, keep their eyes open."
Italy passed a bill giving double votes to academians, professors, those with diplomas, knights, military officers, those with any military decorations, officeholders, certain business personnel, all those paying a direct tax of 100 lira or more, and fathers of at least five children, triple votes to members of the royal family, members of high nobility, cardinals, highly decorated war veterans, high officeholders, or anyone who met three conditions for double votes.
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Italian prefects were ordered to control "suspect", i.e., non fascist, political organizations. Mass searches resulted.
Adolf Hitler pledged his loyalty to Bavarian Minister President Heinrich Held.
Hitler's pledge, of course, would turn out to be a lie. Held maintained Bavarian state sovereignty until the end, but ultimately the Bavarian government was removed in 1933 by Hitler. Held's pension would be revoked by the Nazis. He died in 1938.
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The commencement of Mussolini's dictatorship began with a speech in which he challenged his opponents to remove him from office within 48 hours.
The gauntlet having been thrown down, it was not picked up, and his power increased.
There's a lesson in there somewhere. . .
It was a Saturday, and the magazine racks had the latest journals.
The Sultanate of Nejd, ruled by Abdulazia Ibn Saud defeated the Kingdom of Hejaz in Mecca itself. Hejazi forces remained thereafter only at the port of port of Jeddah.
The State of Syria was smaller than contemporary Syria, in that it did not include the Alawite State.
The Italian fascists introduced legislation bringing about press censorship.
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Two V-2 rockets hit London, resulting in 174 deaths in a rocketry terror attack.
Much like what the Russians are doing to Ukraine now.
Japanese defenses arrested US progress on Leyte. Japanese resistance had been consistently very stiff.
The British crossed the Cosina River in Italy.
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Kenesaw Mountain Landis died at age 78. He was the first Commissioner of Baseball, having been appointed to that position in 1920, and still occupied it at the time of his death.
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The Fifth Army captured Modigliana, Italy.
Soviet forces took Jasbereny, Hungary.
The Japanese landing craft depot ship Akitsu Maru was sun by the USS Queenfish in the Korea Strait. 2,000 went down with her.
The 2nd Battalion, 167th Infantry Regiment landed at Pegun Island in the Mapia islands.
Project Hermes, a U.S. Army Ordinance Corps rocket research program, commenced.
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo was released.
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The Polish Orthodox Church was created as an autocephalous Orthodox Church by the signing of the Patriarchal and Synodal Tomos by Patriarch Gregory VII of Constantinople, recognizing the situation that had been created by the Russian Revolution and Poland's independence.
Mussolini introduced a bill to grant women the franchise in Italy.
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The Japanese hanged Soviet master spy Richard Sorge, one of the most effective, if perhaps ignored, spies of all time.
The 8th Army captured Forli.
The Japanese landed 2,000 reinforcements on Leyte.
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Task Force 38 struck targets on Luzon, losing 25 aircraft. The USS Lexington was damaged in Kamikaze attacks. The Japanese lost 400 planes and the cruiser Nachi.
The British 8th Army captured Ravenna. The victory cutoff rail transportation to Bologna.
The British landed at Salonika.
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