The League of Nations voted to admit Germany.
The National Revolutionary Army entered Jiangxi Province.
It was a Saturday.
Mexico enacted the Calles Law attacking the Catholic Church. Clergymen were to be punished for various crimes including wearing clerics and criticizing the government. In a little over a month the Cristero War would break out as a result.
Catholicism was, and is, strong in Mexico, although the Mexican Revolution, which saw the rise of various anti Catholic figures within it, while others remained very loyal to the Church, weakened it. Most historians do not regard the Cristero War as part of the Mexican Revolution, but I'm not most historians and I do. By the same token, the extent to which the Mexican Revolution was part of a worldwide rise of left wing insurrections is not often appreciated.
Anti Catholic elements in Mexico had existed since at least the mid 19th Century, and interestingly reflected similar movements in Europe, which itself shows the extent to which those revolutions in the country in the mid 19th Century reflected how close Mexico was to Europe in comparison to the United States. For all his faults, Porfirio Díaz, who came from a devout Catholic family and who had originally intended to be a Priest, seemingly put those stresses behind the country, but they revived during the Mexican Revolution. Madero was not a practicing Catholic, which in some ways made him an odd leader for the Revolution. Zapata, while he certainly strayed in regard to sexual morality (he had a least fifteen children, but only two by his wife Josefa "La Generala" Espejo Merino, was Catholic. Other figures were most definitely not practicing Catholics and some were anti Catholic within Madero's ranks. In Baja California, American and foreign Wobblies tried to estaliblish an Anarch Socialist state.
Had Madero, who was not a practicing Catholic, but who was egalitarian in nature, survived, Mexico would not have taken the giant left word lurch it did.
Brazil announced its withdrawal from the League of Nations.
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The Powell Valley Riding club was formed in Powell Wyoming.
The League of Nations dissolved and transferred its assets to the United Nations.
Jackie Robinson appeared in his first minor league game in the farm teams for Major League Baseball. He had previously played for the Kansas City Monarchs. His current team was the Montreal Royals.
The US recognized the government of Tito in Yugoslavia.
The International Court of Justice held its first meeting.
English actress and 1960s Disney teen queen Haley Mills was born.
She managed to transition into adult roles after her Disney era and still acts. Probably her most famous early movie was The Parent Trap.
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Eamon de Valera proposed the name "Fianna Fáil" for his new political party which was scheduled to organize on May 16. "Fianna" (soldiers) and the Lia Fáil, the coronation stone for the ancient kings of Ireland, formed the basis of the name.
The hard to characterize republican party is still around. It's political positions have shifted a great degree over the past century and indeed the ability to do so is a self acknowledged feature of the party.
Watts residents voted to become part of Los Angeles.
Calvin Coolidge declined an invitation to send American delegates to a League of Nations conference in Geneva to discuss America's reservations about joining the World Court.
Coolidge gave a press conference.
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The Italian Senate banned all non-Fascist labor unions and declared all strikes and lockouts to be unlawful, with compulsory arbitration before special labor magistrates to resolve any disagreements between labor and industry. Premier Benito Mussolini declared that the bill was "the most courageous, most audacious, most radical and most revolutionary reform yet proposed by the Fascist government in its 40 months of office.
Sort of like the Wyoming Freedom Caucus dominated 2026 legislature banning union dues from being automatically deducted from state employee paychecks.
Well, to some people, freedom's just another name for everything you'll lose.
Éamon de Valera resigned as the leader of Sinn Féin after the Ard Fheis general assembly failed to approve, by five votes (218 to 223) his motion for the party to have representation in both the Oireachtas (the bicameral parliament of the Irish Free State) and the Parliament of Northern Ireland.
The Council of the League of Nations voted to approve the award of most of the former Ottoman Empire's Mosul province, to the British Mandate of Iraq and to extend the British mandate an additional 25 years.
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Germany applied to join the League of Nations and indicated that it would submit the South Tyrol dispute to the body.
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Billy Mitchell's troubles hit the front page.
Beer in Chicago did as well.
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France's Senate Finance Committee voted to keep its embassy at the Vatican, over the wishes of Prime Minister Édouard Herriot.
The Council of the League of Nations expressed its hopes that Germany would join the body.
Sun Yat-sen died at age 58.
The British government rejected the Geneva Protocol on the basis that the lack of US participating in the League of Nations rendered the Protocol unenforceable.
It's interesting that while the US had competent leadership at the time, as opposed to the rampaging buffoons who govern it now, the isolationist mallogic was strong at the time, helping to doom the world to a Second World War.
The Nazi stand in Großdeutsche Volksgemeinschaft disbanded in favor of the Nazis, with its populist members folding right back in.
Yes, populists. The Nazi Party was a populist right wing party.
Retired General W. R. E. Murphy, Commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, launched overnight raids on all of the brothels ("Kip-Houses") in the Irish capital signalling the end of the tolerance of prostitution.
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The League of Nations abandoned proposals to limit the private manufacture of arms in advance of a conferences on arms trafficking The thought was the United States would oppose such actions, which is interesting in that this is the first instance of such a proposal of which I'm aware.
Gun control itself had gained support, somewhat, after World War One. It did exist to some extent before, but after the war it really started to advance, in no small part due to social concerns, rather than criminal ones. It came into the UK for the first time, for example, as the British upper class feared that the lower class had been radicalized.
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Marines landed at Nanjing to patrol near the university and to protect Americans in the vicinity.
Costa Rica, unhappy with the League of Nations failure to address regional issues, withdrew form the body.
The French mandate states of Aleppo and Damascus were united in the State of Syria.
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Governor General of Canada Julian Byng ordered the termination of the Six Nations Confederacy Council and ordered that it be replaced by an elected body.
This followed the Council's attempt to bring its existence to the attention of the League of Nations.
The Six Nations are the Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Seneca and Tuscarora. They have a large reserve in Ontario.
The Polish Border Protection Corps was established by Poland to protect against Soviet invasion and address bandits crossing the border.
Calvin Coolidge gave an electronic signal from the Oval Office to commences electrical generation from the Skagit River Hydroelectric Project.
Prince Wolfgang of Hesse married Princess Marie Alexandra of Baden over the objections of Wolfgang's uncle, the former German Kaiser Wilhelm II. The couple would have no children.
She died in an American air raid on Frankfurt am Main on January 29-30, 1944. She had been working as an aid worker there. He joined the Nazi Party and was appointed a Landrat (district administrator) of Obertaunuskreis, a landkreis in the state of Hesse. He remarried after the war and died in 1989 at age 92.
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The League of Nations began drafting a plan to take over the supervision of German disarmament.
The Hanapēpē Massacre occurred on Kaua'i when a dispute broke out between police were called to a dispute at a labor striked and arrived with arrest warrants sparking resistance. Sixteen Filipino laborers and four policemen were killed.
The US, UK Japan and Italy deployed troops in Shanghai as it appeared that a Chinese civil war was imminent.
President Coolidge, after waiting for four hours in the rain, met the aviators circumnavigating the world at Boling Field.
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Mexican mountaineer irregulars loyal to the government took Oaxaca.
France rejected a British proposal in the League of Nations to investigate separatism in the Rhineland.
Bill Donovan, age 47, a former major league baseball player, was killed in a train accident in New York.
The Convention and Statute on the International Régime of Maritime Ports is a 1923 was signed in Geneva providing for open ports. It's still in effect.
The Lebanese legislature voted to end the French League of Nations mandate. The French would accordingly arrest the government.
Radio Moscow reported only one Jew remained alive in Kyiv out of a prewar population of 140,000.
The two-day Battle for Piva Trail commenced on Bougainville.
From Sarah Sundin's blog:
Today in World War II History—November 8, 1943: US C-53 cargo plane carrying 13 flight nurses & 13 medics of the 807th Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadroncrash-lands in Nazi-occupied Albania.
She reports they walked out over a period of two months.
Southern Rhodesia became a British colony when the British government took it over from the British South Africa Company due to a 1922 referendum. Prior to that time, it had been informally been known as Zambesia, based on the Zambezi River. It would form a government on October 1 and would retain its status, sort of, as a British colony until 1964.
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Southern Rhodesia, massively British in terms of its colonial character, saw itself in that fashion, and its white residents had been highly supportive of World War One. They would be again of World War Two.
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Flag of Northern Rhodesia.
In 1953, it was confederated by the British with Northern Rhodesia, which had a larger landmass. In the 1950s, it began to fall apart with the rise of African nationalism. Northern Rhodesia became independent and changed its name to Zambia in 1964, interestingly changing its name during the course of the Olympics, and therefore entering the games with one name and exiting it with another.
When Northern Rhodesia became independent, with the cooperation of the British government, it struck fear into Southern Rhodesian whites, and the country, which was controlled by them, issued its Unilateral Declaration of Independence as Rhodesia in 1965. The winds of change already well set in, Rhodesia, while it had cooperation from various countries, was unrecognized by any. It fought an increasingly losing battle against African nationalist forces in the 60s and 70s, and returned to British colonial status brief in 1979, before becoming the current state of Zimbabwe.
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