Saturday, April 7, 1923. Japanese Cherry Trees.

 Miss Yukiko Haraguchi, daughter of Major General Hatsutaro Haraguchi, military attaché of the Japanese embassy, at the cherry trees at the tidal basin Washington, D.C.

Monday, April 2, 1923. Easter Egg Rolling, Oil Swindlers, Bad Debt Shooting, Japanese portrait.

The annual White House Easter Egg Rolling event occured.

The news of the day declared there to be oil stock swindles and a local shooting.  A New York crime waive was declared broken.
 

Two young ladies were photographed in Nippon.

They were sisters Matsu Miyoko 松美代子 ten year old and Matsu Shizue 松静枝 eight year old.

Friday, January 26, 1923. The Sun-Joffre Maniefesto (孫文越飛宣言)

Sun Yat-sen and Communist envoy Adolph Joffe entered into the Sun-Joffre Maniefesto (孫文越飛宣言) providing that the Republic of China and the Soviet Union would cooperate with each other, while acknowledging that the Soviet system wasn't appropriate for China.

Sun Yat-sen is enormously admired to this day, but frankly there's plenty of reasons to regard him at least a little questionably.  This is an early example of Nationalist China leaning pretty heavily to the left, which it did for many years.  The Republic of China and the Soviet Union were sort of uneasy fellow travelers for quite some time.

Joffe was a Trotskyite whose health was already declining.  After Lenin's death and Trotsky's expulsion from the Communist Party, he was refused exit for medical treatment by the USSR and killed himself.  He almost certainly wouldn't have made it through the 30s had he been well.

The U.S. Army was photographed driving some of its trucks in Washington, D.C.

Friday, January 15, 1943. Tragedies and the Pentagon dedication.

US B-24s bombed a Japanese convoy off the coast of Burma and sank the Nichimei Maru, which was, unbeknownst to them, carrying 1,000 Dutch and Australian POWs.  Most survived, but over 50 lost their lives.

Eric Knight, author of the Lassie books, died in a C-54 air crash in Dutch Guiana.  He was serving as a Major in the U.S. Army and assigned to Special Services at the time.

Knight had been born in 1897 in the United Kingdom.  His family moved to the US in 1912, but he'd only been an American citizen since 1942.

FBI agents Harold D. Haberfeld and Percy E. Foxworth were killed in an aviation accident in Suriname.  The were flying to North Africa at the request of Gen. Eisenhower in a role seconded to the military at the time.

Topographic map of Pentagon area in 1945.

The Pentagon was dedicated.  Construction had only commenced on September 11, 1941, which says something about. . . well something.

The British launch a new offensive against the Afrika Korps at Beurat, Libya.  Tunisia saw a lot of air action on this day, and Tripoli, Libya was bombed by US and RAF B-24s.

Andrée de Jongh

Belgian resistance worker and member of the nobility, Andrée de Jongh, organizer and leader of the Comet Line that assisted downed Allied aircrewmen to escape the Germans, was arrested in southern France.  She survived the war and went on to work in leper hospitals all over the world thereafter.  She was decorated by the United States and United Kingdom after the war, and made a Belgian Countess.

The XP-54 flew for the first time.

The airplane was a pusher, and performed below expectations and therefore did not enter service.

Monday, January 15, 1923. Puebloans in Washington, Noble Acts, Ineffective Peacekeepers, and The Mater Familias.

A group of Puebloans visited Washington, D.C.

Puebloans are an example of a native North American culture which have been able to retain their distinctiveness to a high degree.  Insular in the first place, they have remained very much so and are generally disinclined to have too much outside contact with the larger European American culture, although they do have it by necessity.

About 90% of Puebloans are Roman Catholic, although elements of their original indigenous religions have been incorporated in terms of feast days and how they are celebrated.

The patent for manufacturing insulin was assigned by its inventors to the University of Toronto, in order to make it affordable to the general public.

French troops fired on German protestors at Bochum, killing one. The French responded with threats to occupy more of the Ruhr.

Lithuanian troops captured Memel and forced the surrender of a League of Nations Peacekeeping force.

"The Queen and Princess Elizabeth talk to paratroopers in front of a Halifax aircraft during a tour of Airborne forces, 19 May 1944."

Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and Prince Albert, the Duke of York, a dignified couple whose progeny, or at least some of them, ought to be pondering, announced their wedding date.

Zübeyde Hanım, the mother of Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, died at age 66.

Ataturk on this day in 1923.

Tuesday, January 2, 1923. Steps towards independence.

While House Police in their new uniforms that debuted on this day in 1923.

Unlike this year, January 2 was not a holiday, as January 1 fell on a Monday, making it the holiday.

1923  Secretary Hall, Secretary of the Interior, resigns due to the Teapot Dome Scandal.

The Legislative Council of Burma opened.  It offered Burma limited self-government, with 80 elected seats, the balance appointed by colonial officials.

It was a step, albeit only that, toward real independence or dominion status for Britain's various remaining colonies.

Pierce Butler was sworn in as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.  We've discussed him a fair amount already.

Friday, December 1, 1922. Environment.

Protesters took advantage of the Thanksgiving Holiday to picket the White House regarding those held under sedition charges.

At the Conference of Lausanne, the Turks informed European delegates that Greeks remaining in Eastern Thrace had two weeks to leave.  They numbered 1,000,000.

Monica Cobb appeared at the Birmingham Assizes, acting in the role of a prosecutor.  It was the first appearance by a woman solicitor in court in the United Kingdom. The defendant was charged with bigamy.

A safety parade took place in Washington, D.C., viewed by President Harding.

 

Environment, a silet move about the trials of a female ex con, was released:

Monday, November 27, 1922. Safety in D.C., Change of government in Greece.

Streetcar decorated with safety slogans. Washington, D.C., Nov. 27, 1922

Lt. Gen. Stylianos Gonatas became the Prime Minister of Greece following the bloody shakeup in the prior Greek government.

Friday, November 17, 1922. Don't be a J. Walker.

Well known policeman and cartoonist Dick Mansfield in safety work lecture in Washington D.C., 11/17/22

The Irish Free State, which had come into existence due to a bunch of (mostly) men carrying around weapons and assassinating figures of English authority, executed James Fisher, Peter Cassidy, Richard Tuohy and John Gaffney. for "unauthorized possession of revolvers" in violation of the Public Safety Bill.

Defence Richard Mulcahy stated in the Dail;"People have to be shot. It was necessary to shock the country into a realization of the grave thing it is to take human life. These men were found in the streets carrying loaded revolvers ready to take the lives of other men. That's the simple case we have to put before the country."

The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI left the country, with the Ottoman Empire accordingly leaving history.  It had a long run, 1299 to 1922.

Prime Minister Benito Mussolini of Italy and his fascist government won a vote of confidence, 306 to 116.

Friday, October 27, 1922. Horse events, funerals, savings certificates. And the March on Rome begins.

Today In Wyoming's History: October 27: 1922  The Schwartz Brothers Haberdashers store opened in Cheyenne.   Attribution:  Wyoming State Historical Society.

A military horse show took place in Washington, D.C. on this day in 1922.

Billy Mitchell was one of the competitors.

 Elsewhere, a military funeral was also conducted.

Andrew Mellon was issuing new Treasury saving certificates.

Southern Rhodesia, which later became Rhodesia, and which is now Zimbabwe, held a referendum on joining South Africa.  Voters rejected the proposal.

Italian Fascists took possession of cities around Italy as the March on Rome began.  The mach was a mass demonstration that was also a slow rolling coup in progress intended, ultimately, to put so much pressure on the Italian government that it would fall, and the Fascists take control of the government.  It would succeed in that aim.

Saturday, October 17, 1942. Flooding.

The Germans took control of the Stalingrad Tractor Factory.  Fighting for the factory had been at the epic level, but the Germans took control of the factory earlier in the battle than I'd realized.

B-26 Marauders sank the Japanese destroyer Oburo northeast of Kiska.

The Oburo.

Washington D. C. experienced flooding due to heavy rain.

Blog Mirror: “Constitutional Amendments” Series – Amendment XXIII – “Extending the Vote to the District of Columbia”

A concept, frankly, I'm not impressed with:

“Constitutional Amendments” Series – Amendment XXIII – “Extending the Vote to the District of Columbia”

The District of Columbia is wholly unnecessary today.  Just make the city part of Maryland.

Tuesday, October 10, 1922. Iraq created, the beginning of the end of the IRA.

Lillian Thompson and her dog, on this day in 1922.

The United Kingdom and Iraq signed the Anglo-Iraqi Treat of 1922, creating "Irak".  It only obtained limited self-government through the treaty, and the UK controlled its foreign relations.

Irish Catholic Bishops condemned the Irish Republican Army and issued an order denying them the sacraments.  This began to cause a collapse in IRA membership.

Physicians riding in Washington, D. C., 10/10/22.