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15 hours ago · t. e. William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was an American politician and lawyer who was the 27th president of the United States, serving from 1909 to 1913, and the tenth chief justice of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1930, the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen ...
15 hours ago · Website. GoAztecs.com. The San Diego State Aztecs football team is the college football program that represents San Diego State University. The Aztecs compete in NCAA Division I (FBS) as a member of the Mountain West Conference (MW). The team plays its home games at Snapdragon Stadium.
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Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier of Belgium issued a pastoral lettercalling on Belgians to help their government restore the country's finances.Born:Shefqet Vërlaci became the new Prime Minister of Albania after Ahmet Zogu's serious injury in the assassination attempt of February 23.The Turkish National Assembly formally ended the Ottoman Caliphate that had operated for 407 years, voting "almost unanimously" to abolish the office, and ordered that Abdulmejid II and his harem w...Seán O'Casey's drama Juno and the Paycock opened at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.Born:A 7.1 magnitude earthquake, with an epicenter at Orotina in Costa Rica, struck at 5:23 in the morning local time and killed 70 people. Damage was caused in the capital at San Jose, 40 miles (64 km)...Aidan de Brune became the first person to walk all the way around Australia, returning to Sydneyfrom whence he had departed on September 20, 1921.The University of North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team completed a perfect season of 26 wins and no losses, as one of the major unbeaten team in the nation, by winning the 16-team Souther...Born:Just two days after Turkey abolished the caliphate, Hussein bin Ali, King of the Hejaz (now Saudi Arabia) and Sharif of Mecca, was proclaimed the Caliph of all Muslims by Muslim leaders in Mesopota...Born: Harvey Bernhard, American film producer known for horror films The Omen and The Lost Boys; in Seattle(d. 2014)Died: Viktor von Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen, Austrian ornithologist, 76. Among the birds named in his honor are the European goldfinch Carduelis tschusii common reed bunting Emberiza schoeniclus tschu...In an elaborate nighttime ceremony at Luxor under floodlights, Egypt's Prime Minister Saad Zaghloulformally opened the site of Tutankamun's tomb to the Egyptian public, which reportedly attracted t...Turkey's first government was reorganized as Prime Minister Ismet Pasha formed a new council of ministers at the request of President Mustapha Kemal Ataturk.Ismet replaced four members of his Cabin...Born: Obi James Anyasi II, African tribal monarch who ruled the Esan people of Idumuje-Unor in southeast Nigeriafrom 1946 to 2013 (d. 2013)The Delahueristas, rebel supporters of former Mexican President Adolfo de la Huerta, surrendered across Mexico as President Álvaro Obregón offered an amnesty, bringing an end to the De la Huerta re...A representative of the Irish Republican Army Organisation (IRAO) handed an ultimatum to Ireland's President W. T. Cosgrave, from Major-General Liam Tobin and Colonel Charles Dalton, demanding an e...Born: Kōbō Abe, Japanese novelist; in Kita, Tokyo(d. 1993)Died: Pat Moran, 48, American baseball player from 1901 to 1914, manager of the Cincinnati Reds in 1922 and 1923, died of kidney disease during spring training in Florida while preparing for the 19...All 171 miners were killed in two explosions at the Castle Gate mine at Castle Gate, Utah, near the town of Helper.The Governor-General of British India, Lord Reading transferred full power of administration of the princely state of Bahawalpur (now part of the Punjab province of Pakistan) to the 19-year-old Naw...Inventor Nikola Teslaspoke out for the first time in years, announcing he had perfected a system of transmitting power without wires.Georgios Kafantaris was forced by the Greek Army to resign as Prime Minister of Greece, along with his cabinet, less than a month after succeeding Eleftherios Venizelos, after refusing to endorse t...The French Cabinet held an emergency meeting to consider extraordinary measures to stabilize the collapsing franc, which dropped to 117.60 francs against the British pound sterling.Died: General Panagiotis Danglis, 70, former Greek Army leader and Minister of Military Affairs during World War One, co-inventor of the Schneider-Danglis mountain gunU.S. Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby resigned over the Teapot Dome scandal. He said that by quitting before he could be asked to resign, he was "dying with my face toward the enemy."France obtained a $50 million credit from American banks and a £5 million credit from London to stabilize the franc.In the case of Radice v. New York, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New Yorkstate statute banning late-night working for women on grounds of health.Born:The worst Atlantic gale in twenty years hit the east coast of the United States, downing telephone and telegraph lines and killing nine people.Belva Gaertner, a cabaret singer, was arrested for the murder of her abusive lover, Walter Law, who was found dead from a bullet wound in her car in Chicago. She would be acquitted based on reasona...Born:Died:15 hours ago · Jorge Avila-Torrez. Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia. 10 years, 105 days. Northern Neck Regional Jail. 16054-084. Avila-Torrez was later linked to the rapes and murders of eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias in his hometown of Zion, Illinois.
