The 2nd World Scout Jamboree commenced in Denmark.
We noted the huge Seventh Day Adventist International Pathfinder Campfire Camporee being held in Gillette here just yesterday.
The Saturday magazines were out.
Colliers went with a cat making mischief image.
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200,000 people attended a Ku Klux Klan rally in Kokomo, Indiana.
333 soldiers of the White Army surrendered at Ayan on the Pacific Russian coast, ending the Russian Civil War.
Turkey affected prohibition.
The French occupied the Dortmund railway station, leaving only a single rail line functional between the Ruhr and the remainder of Germany. In Germany, rioting broke out in Brandenburg over hyperinflation.
A sporting event occurred: The Baltimore Marathon of 1923
On this day in 1972 the Palestinian terrorist organization Black September attacked the Israeli quarters at the Olympic village in Munich, killing two athletes and taking nine hostages.
Black September was named for the failed Palestinian attempt to overthrow the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in September 1970, an event which was a Palestinian disaster. This event itself led to the Palestinians being expelled from Jordan and going to Lebanon. The organization's connection with the Palestinian Liberation Organization has never been clear, but it is clear that there was one. In 1973 the PLO caused the shutting down of the organization, whose violent acts had not been successful in engendering any support for the Palestinian cause.
This is an event I can recall happening, and oddly enough I believe I learned about it after the family went swimming on a Wednesday afternoon, something that was pretty common for us to do. Indeed, we swam a lot during the summer, and almost always did on Saturday afternoons and often on Sunday afternoons. It wasn't a tradition I kept up with my own family, but I probably should have. The day prior Mark Spitz had won his seventh gold medal at the Olympics, the first athlete to do so.
Spitz had intended to become a dentist, but the Olympics interrupted that pursuit, and he did not resume it after 1992, other opportunities having developed. He married the next year and the couple have two children.
Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: The Pool Returns: Back in 2019 we ran this: Lex Anteinternet: The Pool Returns : The Pool Returns The Tribune this morning has an article that the School Boa...
And yesterday, the beautiful new NCHS swimming pool opened featuring talks by those involved, and the girls swim team.
It's certainly a well done illustration, but I've always found clowns creepy.
An article appeared in that issue on Elanor Franklin, certainly an early one.
The Literary Digest featured a Rockwell.
The Country Gentleman featured an illustration that likely couldn't grace the cover of a magazine today.
Colliers simply went with the always popular female portrait.
The German Mark hit a new low.
Oil was discovered at Smackover, Arkansas, that had a population of 100. That population would reach 25,000 within a few months.
The government reported that the Catholic population of the United States had reached 23,000,000.
People were out doing Saturday things.
There must have been something going on internationally regarding attempting to prevent future wars on this date. A large anti-war rally was held in Germany, and something was also going on in the United States.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to determine what it was.
Wars were going on, of course.
And there were swimming lessons at the beach on this Monday in July.
It was, of course, Independence Day, and parades and celebrations took place in communities across the country, such as this one at Takoma Park, Maryland.
Bauer, who became engaged in college to future television host Ed Sullivan, went on to swim in the 1924 Olympics. The marriage did not take place, however, as she died at age 23 of cancer.
At Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the Marines reenacted the pivotal day of the battle.
The last race at the Tacoma Speedway took place.
Let this be a lesson to all misogynistic perverts in sport and their boot lickers - You can no longer exploit young women and girls, body shame or medically gaslight them and then expect them to represent you so you can earn your annual bonus. Time’s UP
I don't know who Maddie Groves is, really. After this story broke it became clear that she's an Australian Olympic swimmer.
She's obviously had enough, and while the details aren't fully spelled out, the gist of it sure is.
Good for her.
Obregón took Guadalajara.
It was the effective end of Victoriano Huerta's regime.
Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph was advised his council was working on an ultimatum containing demands that were designed to be rejected by Serbia.
As the recent posts have demonstrated, the "war guilt" clauses imposed on the Central Powers after World War One were not without merit.
Miss Norma Phillips.
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