Greek voters overwhelmingly cast their ballots to abolish the monarchy and endorse the Second Hellenic Republic.
The king, however, wouldn't be gone forever. . . this time.
The round the world flight made impressive progress.
Japan, through its U.S. delegation, warned the US that grave consequences would occur if the Senate passed the Immigration Act of 1924 which limited immigration from Asian nations.
The noted was passed to the Chairman of the Senate Immigration Committee, LeBaron B. Colt.
On April 19, the U.S. Senate voted, 62 to 6, to pass the bill, which had already passed the House.
Arizona closed its border with California as part of an effort to prevent an outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease.
4,000 Germans staged a demonstration in Breslau in favor of Crown Prince Wilhelm, son of the former Kaiser, to return to Germany as Kaiser Wilhelm III. On the same day, the German Association of Industry released a statement expressing approval of the Dawes Plan.
Casper was no longer blue.
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Casper adopted a blue law:
I really do.
Also, while De la Huerta was now in exile, some fighting was apparently still going on, tragically.
The Greek parliament voted to boot out the monarchy and declare a republic, subject to an April 13, 1924 referendum.
British aviators joined in a de facto race with the US Army in attempting to be the first to complete an airborne circumnavigation of the world, when British teams departed from Calshot, near South Hampton.
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Three explosions at the Castle Gate coal mine in Utah killed all 171 miners working at the mine. It is one of the worst mining disasters in American history.
The Kingdom of Greece established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union while, on the same day, the Prime Minister was forced to resign after refusing the Army's call to abolish the monarchy.
Henry Breault, a submariner, received the Medal of Honor. He is the only enlisted submariner to have ever received the medal.
For heroism and devotion to duty while serving on board the U.S. submarine O-5 at the time of the sinking of that vessel. On the morning of 28 October 1923, the O-5 collided with the steamship Abangarez and sank in less than a minute. When the collision occurred, Breault was in the torpedo room. Upon reaching the hatch, he saw that the boat was rapidly sinking. Instead of jumping overboard to save his own life, he returned to the torpedo room to the rescue of a shipmate whom he knew was trapped in the boat, closing the torpedo room hatch on himself. Breault and Brown remained trapped in this compartment until rescued by the salvage party 31 hours later.
Portuguese Prime Minister Marcello Caetano informed the Portuguese National Assembly that Portuguese Guinea, Angola and Mozambique would retain their colonial status in spite of ongoing guerilla wars. He stated that elections "would be inappropriate for the African mentality."
Ethiopian Emperor and absolute monarch Haile Selassie pledged democratic reforms in an unprecedented national address on radio and television.
Eva Mendes was born in Miami.
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Eh?
I wouldn’t protect him. He betrayed the queen. That’s unforgivable. He would be on his own if it was down to me.
Donald Trump to a reporter at CPAC.
Seriously, does anyone think that Trump is well?
American immigration laws are a mess, to be sure, but what the crap was this about?
By the way, the British NHS publishes this as symptoms of fronto temporal dementia:
Many people with frontotemporal dementia develop a number of unusual behaviours they're not aware of.
These can include:
being insensitive or rude
acting impulsively or rashly
loss of inhibitions
seeming subdued
losing interest in people and things
losing drive and motivation
inability to empathise with others, seeming cold and selfish
repetitive behaviours, such as humming, hand-rubbing and foot-tapping, or routines such as walking exactly the same route repetitively
a change in food preferences, such as suddenly liking sweet foods, and poor table manners
compulsive eating, alcohol drinking and/or smoking
neglecting personal hygiene
As the condition progresses, people with frontotemporal dementia may become socially isolated and withdrawn.
I'm not a mental health professional, but Trump isn't right.
There's something oddly charming about this.
Theft is wrong, but stealing your service horse is oddly really Western, and somewhat charming.
I hope Reo is okay.
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On this day in 1874 supporters of Queen Emma attacked supporters of King Kalākaua in Honolulu over who would be the reigning monarch following the election for the same, which the king had won.
Marines and blue jackets from US and British warship intervened, and King Kalākaua was able to take the oath of office the following day.
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The sixth king of Hawaii reigned for only one year. The popular monarch was only 39 years old when he died of tuberculosis.
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Shoeless Joe Jackson's suit against the Chicago White Sox for back pay went to trial on this day in 1924. The trial was held in Milwaukee.
A delegation headed by Illinois Sen. William B. McKinley and former servicemen present spooled petition to Otto Wiedfeldt, the German Ambassador to the United States in Washington, D.C. to release Hooven Griffis.
Yes, he was part of a party of men that had sought to kidnap Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, notorious WWI slacker, from a hotel in Germany, take him to Paris and turn him over to authorities so he could be court-martialed for desertion.
The party was caught.
The headlines all speak for themselves.
Mussolini addressed 10,000 Blackshirts in the Palazzo Venezia predicting a complete election victory and stating that they were "ready to kill or die".
Hmmm. . . sort of a lot like what we're hearing now.
Mahecor Joof was crowned as the last King of Sine in Senegal, where he'd be allowed limited power until his death in 1969.
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Oilman Edward L. Doheny testified that he had loaned Senator Albert B. Fall $100,000, when Fall was Secretary of the Interior under Harding, breaking open the Teapot Dome Scandal.
Bulgaria gave former King Ferdinand, who had been in exile since 1918, permission to return to Sofia.
Kings in exile are more philosophic under reverses than ordinary individuals; but our philosophy is primarily the result of tradition and breeding, and do not forget that pride is an important item in the making of a monarch. We are disciplined from the day of our birth and taught the avoidance of all outward signs of emotion. The skeleton sits forever with us at the feast. It may mean murder, it may mean abdication, but it serves always to remind us of the unexpected. Therefore we are prepared and nothing comes in the nature of a catastrophe. The main thing in life is to support any condition of bodily or spiritual exile with dignity. If one sups with sorrow, one need not invite the world to see you eat.
Yugoslavia issued an ultimatum objecting to his return.
He in fact did not return, and having taken steps to secure his fortune, lived a quasi bucolic life, marked by family tragedy, and carried on in Germany, dying in 1948. The prior year, he married a third time, to his secretary, age 26.
Simon & Schuster, the legendary publishing house, was formed.
The U.S. Winter Olympic team left for the first Winter Olympics.
The Constitutionalist government of Mexico reported that is forces had achieved a victory over the rebels of Adolfo de la Huerta at Zacualpan.
The war in Mexico, and other age-old lethal vices, were making headlines far away:
Flooding in Paris closed the railroads.
Sabine Baring-Gould, composer of "Onward, Christian Soldiers", died at age 89. Clara Abbott, American businesswoman who had been the first woman to serve on the board of a major American corporation, Abbott Laboratories, died at age 66.
United States Senators Frazier and Johnson were photographed working.
A new flag for Iowa was unveiled.
It is, frankly, ugly.
It had been adopted in 1921. Iowa had lacked one before that.
The fastest expression of Revolution in Mexico was continuing on.
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It was Armistice Day for 1923. Secretary of War John Weeks, Pres. Calvin Coolidge, and Asst. Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt paid tribute at Arlington to the Unknown Solder.
German police found Adolf Hitler hiding in the attic of his friend with a country home, Ernst Hanfstaengl and arrested him.
Hanfstaengl was a member of German high society and was instrumental in polishing Hitler's early image with the elite. He fell out of favor almost as soon as Hitler came to power, however, and worked for the Allies profiling Hitler's psychology, as an exile, during World War Two.
German Chancellor Gustav Stresemann accepted the return of Crown Prince Wilhelm.
Hachikō (ハチ公) an Akita, was born. The dog would return daily to wait for his deceased owner to return from work for over nine years, living to be eleven years old.
The Saturday magazines were on the stand.
Crown Prince Wilhelm of German returned to Germany from the Netherlands.
Ludendorff was released on parole, demonstrating one of the problems Weimar Germany had with suppressing anti-democratic uprisings. . . the tendency to let those on the right, go.
Libya announced that it would completely halt oil exports to the United States. The U.S. Federal Reserve regards this as the beginning of the full Arab Oil Embargo.
President Nixon rejected the Appeals Court decision that he turn over tapes to Federal investigators. Instead, he proposed to have them transcribed, and then reviewed by Democratic Senator John C. Stennis. Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox rejected the offer and resigned the following day.
Solutions for the Yom Kippur War were being discussed on an international level.
Elizabeth II, on a trip to Australian, signed the Royal Styles and Titles Act and assumed the title of "Queen of Australia". She had previously been "Elizabeth the second, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom, Australia and her other realms and territories, queen, head of the Commonwealth.".
Miguel Primo de Rivera sworn in as Prime Minister by King Alfonso XIII, who suspended the Spanish Constitution at his behest. The appointment was in an effort to give the recent military coup the cover of legitimacy.
Oklahoma Governor Jack C. Walton declared statewide "absolute martial law" in order to combat the Ku Klux Klan. Habeaus corpus was suspended in Tulsa County.
Marguerite Albert was acquitted of murdering her husband, Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey at London's Savoy Hotel. You'll recall that she killed him on July 10, showing how quickly such maters proceeded in an earlier era.
It what was a sign of things to come, the Laotian government agreed to allow the Pathet Lao to become part of a coalition government.
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Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was held at gunpoint by his grandson, Iskinder Desta, deputy commander of the Ethiopian Navy. Ultimately, the coup attempt would be abandoned when Desta's mother, Princess Tenague, backed him off of it. A towering figure of Ethiopia in the 20th Century, this too was a sign of things to come. Things would not work out well, in the end, for Desta either.
The Spanish government was deposed in a coup led by Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2nd Marquis of Estella, a military officer. The coup came about as it's leaders were upset with the Spanish government's inability to deal with the economic conditions which were a precursor to the Great Depression.
King Boris III of Bulgaria died after becoming suddenly ill. He had met with Hitler two weeks prior, and there was suspicion at the time, and some still believe, he was poisoned while in Germany.
Former Governor of Pennsylvania, William Cameron Sproul, opined that Prohibition helped kill William G. Harding, noting:
He was accustomed to an occasional drink of scotch. I was his personal friend and I know, and in that laborious task of a trip to Alaska, I'm sure he missed it.
U.S. Army pilots Lowell Smith and John Richter broke an aviation endurance record by staying aloft for 37 consecutive hours over Rockwell Field in San Diego, a feat made possible by air-to-air refueling. The accomplishment is impressive, if frankly, pointless.
German offered to end passive resistance to French occupation of the Ruhr in exchange for the release of deportees and prisoners, and the guarantee of the "safety of life and subsistence of the Ruhr population."
Japanese Crown Prince Hirohito, the future emperor, moved into Akasaka Palace. The intended temporary state would end up bing a period of five years due to an earthquake destroying housing in Tokyo.
The patent for Lincoln longs, applied for on August 31, 1920, was granted.
Louis Cohen, aka Louis Kushner, mob hit man, killed Nathan Kaplan, gangster, while the latter was being transferred by a police car in New York City.
Kaplan was likely killed under orders of rival Louis Buchalter, aka Louis Lepke, aka Lepke Buchalter, who would rise up to be head of Murder Incorporated. Buchalter would later receive the death penalty and be executed in 1944. Cohen was gunned down in a mob hit in 1939.
Of interest, these figures were all Jewish gangsters, something we've forgotten about over time, mostly remembering the Sicilian Mafia. Indeed, Murder Inc. tended to use Jewish and Italian hitman in their role for the Mafia, which insulated the Mafia from direct involvement.
