Oklahoma adopted its current flag.
The prior flag:
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Typhoon Cobra struck the Pacific Fleet doing severe damage to the ships of Task Force 28. The destroyers Hull, Monaghan and Spence all foundered in the storm. Other ships were damaged.
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It was Saturday.
Sultan bin Saqr Al Qasimi II invaded the Emirate of Sharjah resulting in the overthrow of Khalid bin Ahmad Al Qasimi, who had been the Emir since 1914.
Sharjah was one of the Trucial States under British protectorate status. It is now one of the United Arab Emirates.
He'd find his rule ineffective as he was ignored by Beudoins and Khalid retained support. He remained the titular rule, however, until his death in 1951.
The Royal Air Force introduced its Meteorological Flight Service.
Éamon de Valera was sentenced to a month in prison for entering Ulster illegally.
Frontier lawman Bill Tilghman, age 70, was shot and killed by drunken prohibition agement Wiley Lynn, who obviously wasn't that dedicated to the cause of his employment. Tilghman would lie in State in the Oklahoma state house. Lynn would escape conviction, pleading self defense, but was killed in a gunfight in 1932.
The days headline did, and did not, read like today's.
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. premiered on CBS.
Somehow, Pvt. Pyle managed never to be deployed to Vietnam, and seemingly, with the exception of one single episode I can think of, remain in the Pre Vietnam War era entirely.
President Johnson and Mexican President López Mateos shook hands on the International Bridge at El Paso. Later that day President Johnson flew to Oklahoma for the dedication of the new Eufaula Dam and spoke about the Vietnam War, stating: "There are those that say you ought to go north and drop bombs, to try to wipe out the supply lines, and they think that would escalate the war. We don't want our American boys to do the fighting for Asian boys."
FRELIMO (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique) launched the Mozambican War of Independence.
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The modern oil filter was patented by George H. Greenhalgh. Prior to this, automobiles simply used a screen, which would partially account for the short engine life early automobiles had.
The Purolator oil filter is essentially what most vehicles use today, and is still in production.
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I'll confess the point of such stunts as this really escapes me.
Oklahoma's governor had been impeached, but he wasn't giving up.
Oklahoma's Governor, Jack C. Walton, who had tried to take on the KKK, was impeached on corruption charged by the state Senate
Mrs. Coolidge visited the Harding Memorial.
Actress Margaret Gibson was arrested on charges of running a blackmail and extortion ring. The charges would later be dropped, She would keep working in the film industry until 1929.
During her career she performed under the names Patricia Palmer, Patsy Palmer, Margie Gibson, Marguerite Gibson, Ella Margaret Lewis, Ella Margaret Arce, Pat Lewis and perhaps others. She started running into legal trouble in 1917, when she was arrested for vagrancy with allegations of opium dealing. She was acquitted, but her career did thereafter decline.
On this day in 1923 she was arrested on federal felony charges. As things developed, George W. Lasher told authorities he had paid Gibson $1155 to avoid prosecution for a reputed violation of the Mann Act. Charges were, however, later dropped.
She married in 1935 to oil executive Elbert Lewis. They lived overseas, and the marriage was successful. In 1940, at age 45, she returned to the United States without her husband for surgery. World War Two intervened, and they would not be reunited as her husband was killed when the Japanese bombed Socony-Vacuum's oil facility at Penang, Malaysia on March 15, 1942.
She returned to Hollywood in 1964, and at that time, converted to Catholicism. Only shortly thereafter, she became gravely ill, called for a priest, and confessed to neighbors the February 1, 1922, murder of Hollywood film director William Desmond Taylor. The murder of Taylor remains officially unsolved, and while there were a handful of suspects, Gibson was never one of them. In spite of her deathbed confession and her being distraught at the time, there are still those who doubt she committed the crime.
Oklahoma was impeaching its anti Klan Governor.
Gustav Krupp signed an agreement with the French which established operating conditions for his mines in the Ruhr. He was released from prison fourteen days later.
Estonia and Latvia signed a mutual defense treaty.
Finnair was founded as "Aero Osakeyhtiö". It had one airplane at the time, a Junkers F.13 seaplane.
The George Washington Memorial cornerstone was laid.
Recently retired, at age 29, Irish mob gangster Bill Lovett was murdered in his sleep at an abandoned store in Brooklyn. Lovett was a well-educated man who loved animals, and a distinguished World War One veteran, but a dedicated alcoholic who could be very temperamental when drunk. He'd been in the Irish mob before and again after World War One, but had recently given up crime and drinking after marrying. He fell off the wagon on October 31 while downtown for a job interview, and went to sleep in the store with a compatriot. He was apparently murdered by other Irish mobsters.
The Hamburg Uprising, a Communist uprising in that city, began with seventeen police stations in the city and seven outside of it being attacked before dawn in an effort to arm the participants.
Governor Jack C. Walton of Oklahoma suspended from office after that state's House of Representatives voted to impeach him.
Mine Explosion Snuffs Out Six Workers’ LivesNevada State Journal, RenoOctober 8, 1923Grand Junction, Colo., Oct. 7. -- An explosion of gas in the Midwest Coal Mine at Palisades, Colo., at 11 a.m. today killed six of the seven men working in the mine.The dead are:Robert P. Scott, managerJ. K. Keys and three sons, Harvey Keys, W. B. Keys and Robert T. KeysGeorge McKeeMcKee had entered the service of the company today, and this was his first shift.The government mine rescue crews that were fighting the fire in the Bookcliff Mine arrived an hour after the explosion, and located four bodies.Jim Benda, the other miner in the workings at the time of the explosions, was badly burned. He crawled three quarters of a mile through the smoke and gas to safety. It is said that he will recover.The usual force at the Midwest mine is 40 men, but only a short clean-up crew was at work today. Superintendent Scott had entered the mine on an inspection trip.The explosion wrecked the mine badly, it is said. The mine entry is far up on the side of Grand Mesa above Palisades.Three members of the government rescue crew attempting to recover bodies from the Midwest mine were so overcome by the smoke and gas, despite the helmets, that their companions had to carry them from the workings. All of the bodies except those of Robert P. Scott and W. B. Keys were recovered tonight and it was announced that no further efforts will be made to recover them until morning, when it is hoped that some of the gas and smoke will have cleared away.It is now believed that the mine did not take fire but that the smoke was from the explosion.The body of George McKee was the first to be recovered. He was found among wreckage of cars which had been started down grade toward the portal by the force of the explosion.The string of cars hit his body and were derailed by it. He was mangled by the cars. The bodies of J. K. Keys and one of his sons were found close to the air shaft which was wrecked by the blast. The younger men had been blown against one of the mine timbers with such force as to crush his body.The great exhaust fan at the top of the airshaft on the surface was blown from its foundation and hurled down the hill.
Today In Wyoming's History: September 27: 1923 Thirty railroad passengers were killed when a CB&Q train wrecked at the Cole Creek Bridge, which had been washed out due to a flood, in Natrona County. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
The German government ended its campaign of passive resistance to French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr. The move enraged the far right, which then began to organize towards more radical action.
Locally, there was some interesting news.
Mostly I posted this as the thought of a bond election with only one no vote is simply stunning. That wouldn't occur now.
And the Governor of Oklahoma was calling out the Guard to resist a racist impeachment attempt.
almost reads like a current headline, eh?
Governor Walton of Oklahoma called upon Oklahoman to be prepared to take up arms to assist the state as the legislature began to move towards impeachment, unhappy, as it was, due to his taking on the Ku Klux Klan.
A major raid in Chicago on speakeasies resulted in the jails being filled to capacity.
Crime was a major story in Casper as well:
