The United States, Russia, the United Kingdom and Japan signed the Convention on the International Protection of Fur Seals, prohibiting hunting of the endangered animals in the North Pacific Ocean.
Populations rebounded by 30% within six years.
King George V and Queen Mary arrived in Dublin for a visit of Ireland, of which they were its monarchs.
The North American East Coast was in the grips of a terrible heat wave.
The first women to do so entered the United States Naval Academy.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II began a "Bicentennial tour" of several locations in the original thirteen states. As with much associated with Queen Elizabeth, her tour was a huge success.
South Africa ceased requiring black students to be instructed in the Afrikaans language, which itself is a variant of Dutch.
Soyuz 21 was launched into orbit.
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The Allied powers agreed to withdraw their troops from Italy and Bulgaria.
Fred M. Vinson was confirmed Chief Justice of the United States.
Wanrong (婉容), wife and empress consort of Puyi, the last emperor of China, died a prisoner of the Chinese Communist from malnutrition and opium withdrawal. Her fate was unknown to the outside world at the time.
As the Chinese Imperial household was polygamist, her husband remained married in spite of her death, of which he was unaware. Two of his prior spouses had divorced, but he remained married at the time to Li Yuqin, who was also a prisoner and would divorce the former emperor, Puyi (溥儀) in 1957, although she commenced visiting him in 1955. Puyi would remarry in 1962.
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Egyptian soldiers fired into a crowed of Muslims Najadis, killing 25 of them, following a protest that began when the Egyptians were playing music while carrying the Mahmal through the holy city of Mecca during the Hajj pilgrimage, to which the Najadis took offense.
It's often forgotten in the West that Islam is far more internally divided than Christianity, a fact that's aided by the fact that there is no central head of Islam.
The Fédération Internationale de Philatélie was formed for stamp collecting and other branches of philately in at Castagnola in Switzerland.
It's the oldest such organization in the world.
Princess Olga Constantinovna of Russia, 74, former Queen Consort of Greece from 1867 to 1913 as the wife of King Geórgios I, and briefly regent for one month in 1920, died in exile in Rome.
Congress was getting ready to go home.
The Kingdom of Afghanistan came into existence when Emir Amanullah Khan Barakzai of the British protectorate of Afghanistan declared the independence with British approval and himself king.
Jordan achieved full independence.
Railroads and Railway workers signed an agreement at the White House averting a Federal seizure of the railroads. Truman's order to take control was only three minutes away from implementation.
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Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil became the first reigning monarch to visit Wyoming. He was visiting the United States as part of the Centennial celebrations that year. He probably didn't appreciate it, however, as his trip into the state by train was at night and he was asleep when a reporter attempted to visit him in Cheyenne.
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The Al-Baqi' cemetery in Medina was razed under orders of Saudi King Abdulaziz ibn Saud in what some Muslims recall as The Day of Sorrow (Persian: روز غم Ruz-e Gham, Urdu: یوم غم Yaum-e Gham). The act was done primarily to enforce Wahhabi doctrine forbidding building structures over graves, viewing that as idolatry.
The Japanese government issued the Haitō Edict, The Sword Abolishment Edict (廃刀令) prohibiting people, with the exception of former lords (daimyōs), the military, and law enforcement officials, from carrying weapons in public, including swords.
It was an attack on the former samurai class, with their establishment itself having already been eliminated.
Leonard Peltier was arrested in Canada and charged with the murder of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, the husband of Queen Juliana and the inspector general of the Netherlands Armed Forces, was implicated in a bribery scandal in testimony by an official of the Lockheed Corporation. He confirmed accepting the bribe in a posthumously published memoir, acknowledging it was a mistake, but claiming all the money went to the World Wildlife Fund.
Sort of an example of how monarchy behaved, the prince is pretty far from a universally admirable person in general, although his record is mixed. A German, he worked in Germany in the 1930s for IG Faben where he was a member of the Reiter-SS (SS Cavalry Corps) before it was a full time military establishment, and to the paramilitary National-sozialistisches Kraftfahrerkorps (NSKK) although he never showed any outward Nazi sympathy or political views in general otherwise. He denied these memberships, although its certain that he belonged. He claimed to sever all of this ties after marrying Princess Julian, the future queen, in 1937. During the war, however, he actively supported the Dutch cause and saw military service and was regarded as a war hero by the Dutch, and not without good reason.
He helped found the World Wildlife Fund after the war, and was its first president.
He had four children by his wife, and two more by mistresses, all daughters.
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith warned of a new large-scale guerilla offensive against hte country and that it would entail significant military expenditure.
The caisson horse Black Jack died at age 19.
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As Emperor, he had participated in an anti French rebellion while only 16 years old, an event which lead to the French removing him from his throne. He thereafter went into exile on Réunion Island, where he retained pro independence views. During World War Two he held anti Vichy views and entered the Free French Navy, and then Army, when the island was liberated from Vichy. DeGaulle, realizing how desperate the situation in French Indochina was, was having him returned to Vietnam where he would have been re-installed as Emperor, which would have amounted to deposing Boa Dai, who had sided with Vichy. His untimely death left the Communist dominated Viet Minh as the only real functioning anti colonial force in the region.
Still highly regarded in Vietnam, most Vietnamese cities have streets named after him. His remains were reinterred in Vietnam in 1987.
The Red Chinese won the Gaoyou–Shaobo Campaign in which the Nationalist troops were principally made up of units that had formerly collaborated with the Japanese.
Admiral of the Fleet Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, who in spite of his age saw some service in World War Two, died at age 73.
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Wario2, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia CommonsThis was the conclusion of a monumental event that had been decades in the making, recreating, with slightly larger boundaries, the former extent of the First Saudi State which had come to an end in 1818. It also demonstrated the tricky nature of British support, as both sides in the conflict had been supported by the British during World War One, although only the Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz had been active supporters of the British backed Arab Revolt.
It took oil, of course, to make Saudi Arabia what it is today, and in part what it is, is a house of cards, still ruled by one family.
Henri de Jouvenel was appointed High Commissioner of the Levant, the French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon.
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The Milestone Mo-Tel, austensibly the first "motor hotel", i.e., motel, opened in San Luis Obispo. It closed in 1991, but is being restored.
The Iranian Parliament, the Majles-e Showrā-ye Mellī, declared Prime Minister, General Reza Khan Pahlavi, as the Shah of Iran and bringing an end to the Qajar dynasty that had ruled since 1789.
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Vientiane fell to the Pathet Loa, bringing to an end the devided leadership of Laos and making it a fully communist country.
It effectively brought to an end the wars that broke out with end of World War Two over what type of governments former French Indochina would have.
Ironically, the new head of state was the French educated Communist Prince Souphanouvong. While we think of Communism as being inherently anti monarchical, in Indochina this was much less the case.
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