Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five recorded their first songs together for Okeh Records.Born: Jonathan Winters, comedic actor, in Bellbrook, Ohio (d.Le Faisceau, a French Fascist party, was founded, consisting of about 10,000 members.The process was exceedingly difficult due to the extreme fragility of the bandages and a resinous coating that held the mummy fast inside the sarcophagus. Howard Carter and an autopsy team began the unwrapping of the mummy of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.Born: Richard Burton, actor, in Pontrhydyfen, Wales (d.The Archbishop of Canterbury appointed a committee of six doctors and six clergymen to investigate the veracity of faith healing.The race film Body and Soul was released, directed by Oscar Micheaux and starring Paul Robeson in his film debut.The trial was a significant media circus event at the time. Rhinelander was seeking an annulment of the marriage on the grounds that his wife Alice had failed to inform him of her " colored" blood before the wedding. The Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander divorce trial opened in White Plains, New York.Forces allied with Wu Peifu inflicted a defeat on Zhang Zuolin after several days of fighting south of Xuzhou.Died: Domício da Gama, 62, Brazilian journalist and diplomat.The Democratic Party won a majority with 83 of the 163 seats. Parliamentary elections were held in Portugal.The film The Eagle, starring Rudolph Valentino, was released.It was announced that the remains of Manfred von Richthofen, "The Red Baron", would be disinterred from France and repatriated to Germany.Several Italian opposition leaders were arrested in connection with the assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini.The club was named the Pirates, after the baseball team also based in the city. Pittsburgh was granted a franchise by the National Hockey League.Died: Khải Định, 40, Emperor of Vietnam.This was the 65th record close of the calendar year 1925, a record in itself almost doubling the old mark of 34 set in 1899. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 159.39.Kliment Voroshilov was appointed as Soviet Union Commisar for Military and Naval Affairs following the death of Mikhail Frunze.Died: Secret agent Sidney Reilly is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.The hit war film The Big Parade opened.the Reform Party led by incumbent Prime Minister Gordon Coates won the New Zealand general election.Police had been tipped off by an intercepted phone call and stopped the would-be assassin.
Italian Socialist deputy and expert marksman Tito Zaniboni took a hotel room opposite the Palazzo Chigi with the intent of shooting Benito Mussolini with a telescopic rifle when he came out to the balcony to make a speech.Died: Lucile McVey, 34 or 35, American actress, part of the husband-and-wife comedy team Mr.Twenty-one-year-old film actress Constance Bennett married millionaire socialite Philip Morgan Plant in a hotel lobby in Greenwich, Connecticut she did not make another film until they divorced in 1929.Alfred Hitchcock's directorial debut film, The Pleasure Garden, was released.The operetta Princess Flavia opened on Broadway.The unidentified body of a young soldier was interred in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw, Poland.In Australia, 100 police clashed with 1,000 striking seamen on the wharf in Fremantle as the officers tried to board a ship that the strikers were trying to damage many were injured and 100 arrests were made.Died: Lester Cuneo, 37, American actor (suicide).17 were killed in a mine explosion near Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
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