U.S. troops landed in Panama to put down a renter's strike at the request of President Rodolfo Chiari, which seems like complete BS, frankly.
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The Ethel Hays cartoon for today:
The era was one in which Dude Ranches were particularly popular.
Large scale protests and strikes broke out in France, heavily influenced by the French left, against the Rif War.
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The first television transmission was made in London. The experimental broadcast was made by Scottish inventor John Logie Baird.
Spanish troops entered the Rif capital of Ajdir.
The Pact of the Vidoni Palace was signed at the Palazzo Vidoni-Caffarelli in Rome between the Fascist-dominated General Confederation of Italian Industry) (Confederazione Generale dell'Industria Italiana or CGI) and the Fascist-controlled National Confederation of Trade Union Corporations labor union. It abolished all other unions, including Catholic and Socialist unions, and gave the government effectively corporatist control, on the fascist model, of labor.
200 feet of the roof on the western end of the Church Hill Tunnel, Virginia collapsed killing 40 workers.
La Revue Nègre featuring Josephine Baker’s comic Charleston opened in Paris. Baker became a huge success overnight.
Baker was an enormous talent. Her shows of the era likely wouldn't have been legal in much of the United States due to the nudity or near nudity that they featured.
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It was a Saturday.
A real glimpse into how things have changed was provided by the denial of divorce story on the cover of the Tribune.
No fault divorce, as we've noted here before, did not exist at the time.
It shouldn't exist now.
The Saturday journals were out. Women seemed to be the theme.
Sultan Yusef of Morocco put a $25,000 bounty on the head of Rif leader Abd el-Krim.
Calvin Coolidge issued a proclamation establishing American Education Week.
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The Eastern Orthodox Church granted autocephaly to the Polish Orthodox Church. The church has approximately 500,000 members today, of which 156,000 live in Poland.
The Escadrille Cherifienne, a French Foreign Legion unit composed of Americans, bombarded the city of Chefchaouen, considered a holy shrine of the Jebala people.
Syrian rebels attack Al-Musayfirah. The attack was at first successful but deployment of the French Air Force caused the rebels to withdraw.
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Billy Mitchell was in trouble:
Yikes.
He was referring to the Shenandoah Incident and the recent Navy long distance flight to Hawaii. I didn't really cover either. I should have, as this was a big event.
The Spanish broke the siege at Tétouan.
The Byzantine cross appeared in the sky over Athens during an old calendar service of the Greek Orthodox Church of the Exaltation of the All-Honourable and Life-giving Cross of our Savior. The Orthodox Church was being repressed by the Greek government at the time.
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The first amphibious landing of armor occured at Alhucemas Bay in Morocco. This Spanish landing was successful.
The Rif War would soon end.
Washington D. C. building heights were discussed.
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It was Labor Day.
The Spanish Army attempted to make an amphibious landing at Alhucemas Bay at Spanish Morocco. It was a complete and disastrous failure.
General Maurizio Ferrante Gonzaga was appointed by Prime Minister Mussolini as the Commandant-General of the Fascist Party's Voluntary Militia for National Security (MSVN), the "Blackshirts".
British troops fired on Chinese protesters at Shanghai.
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French and Spanish ships and planes bombarded Ajdir, the Moroccan town on the Mediterranean that served as the capital of the Rif Republic.
Peruvian aviator Alejandro Velasco Astete became the first person to fly over the Andes.
The Navy was attempting to break a speed record.
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France and Spain, each occupying different portions of Morocco, agreed to cooperate in the Rif War against their common enemy, the Riffians.
It was, of course, a Saturday.
The French Chamber of Deputies approved an additional 183 million francs to fight the Rif War in Morocco, where France shouldn't have been in the first place.
Oops, not the Riffs, the Riffians.*
Footnotes:
The obscure references is to 1979's The Warriors.
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Riffians launched an offensive against Fes.
Ralph Samuelson became the first person to perform a ski jump on water.
Antonio Genna of the Genna crime family became the third member of the Genna brothers to be shot to death in less than two months in the ongoing war with Capone's North Side Gang.
Pioneering photographer Clarence Hudson White of the Photo-Secession movement died. He photographed dreamy female portraits, including nudes which debatably crossed into pornography, emphasizing, perhaps, an ongoing and developing problem in the age of film.
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Abd el-Krim of the Riffians attacked French forces in Morocco renewing the Riffian War.
Newfoundland granted women the right to vote. It was not yet part of Canada.
Ford Air Transport Service, the first dedicated cargo airline, began operations with a Stout 2-AT Pullman airplane transporting 1,000 pounds of freight from Detroit to Chicago.
The Larry Semon-directed version of the film The Wizard of Oz was released. Semon himself starred as the Scarecrow, Dorothy Dwan as Dorothy, and comedian Oliver Hardy as the Tin Man.
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The Spanish war department announced that Spain had landed 5,000 additional troops in Morocco in support of its position in the Rif War.
Hollis "Sloppy" Thurston struck out three Philadelphia A's on nine itches in the 12th inning, pitching for the Chicago White Sox.
Thurston pitched the screwball. The Nebraskan played ball, in the majors and the minors, until 1938.
The German National Socialist Party, the NASDP, commonly called the Nazi Party, held its first party congress. It was held in Munich, where the party was centered at the time, and drew 6,000 members.
The tiny Republic of San Marino was forced by local fascists into union with Italy. The micro state has since regained independence.
The Republic of the Rif released the remaining 326 prisoners of war it held to Spain, in exchange for 4,000,000 pesetas. 261 POWS had died in Rifian captivity.
The Country Gentleman had an age-old theme.
Of interest, that style of winter hat is still very popular with outdoorsmen and agriculturalist. I have two of them.
The Saturday Evening Post had an extraordinarily boring cover.
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