The U.S. Senate passed bills creating Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, and Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee.
You can tell the likes of Harriet Hageman and Deseret Mike Lee weren't in Congress at the time.
The Kingdom of Iraq extended the "D'Arcy Concession" of the oil fields in the Diyala Governorate for an additional 35 years past its scheduled expiration date of May 27, 1961. In reality, events would cause the concessions to be renegotiated after World War Two and expire in 1958, the year that the Kingdom of Iraq itself expired.
Most of the concession territory was in Iran and was cancelled in 1932.
Mount Tokachi erupted in Hokkaidō, Japan, killing 140 people.
The volcano is located within the Daisetsuzan National Park.
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