Newly appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. on this day in 1921.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., whom friend called "Ted", was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy, the same position that his father had held in the first McKinley administration and his cousin Franklin had held in the Wilson administration.
Like his father, his personal connection with the military was in the army. His father was an officer in the New York National Guard prior to his appointment, and of course went on to become a cavalry colonel in the Spanish American War, winning a Congressional Medal of Honor, conferred very much posthumously, for his leadership of the assault on Kettle Hill. Ted Roosevelt had served as an officer during the Great War and would go on to be a Brigadier General during World War Two, also winning a Congressional Medal of Honor, in his case for his role in Operation Overlord on June 6, 1944.
Ted Roosevelt was a rising figure in politics at the time, but after the election of his cousin Franklin, which he opposed, he retired from that pursuit seemingly with all of the remaining descendants of his famous father.
Helen of Greece and Denmark.
Princess Helen of Greece and Denmark, daughter of the deposed King of Greece, married the louse Crown Prince Carol II of Romania. He'd ultimately abandon her some years later, renounce his thrown (he was then the king) and take up permanently with a mistress.
She went on to be the Queen Mother of Romania as her son Michael grew up. Michael would go on to be the last King of Romania, occupying that position during World War Two and, fairly amazingly, for a time after it even as the country had Communism foisted upon it. Helen and her son would be tragic figures, but Helen is notable for her efforts to save Romanian Jews during the Holocaust, for which she was later counted as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.
