The Peel Commission published a report on the situation in Mandatory Palestine, recommending an end to the British mandate and that the territory be partitioned into an Arab state and a Jewish state.[1]
Tung Chee-hwa, Chinese politician and the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong after its transfer from British to Chinese control, from 1997 to 2005; in Shanghai
As part of the Great Purge in the Soviet Union, 24 people were executed in Siberia after having been convicted on charges of sabotaging Soviet railways.[14]
Joseph T. Robinson, 64, U.S. Senator for Arkansas since 1913 and U.S. Senate Majority Leader since 1933, died two days after experiencing chest pains during a Senate session
Julius Meier, 62, American banker, department store magnate and politician who served as governor of Oregon from 1931 to 1935
The German-Polish accord on Upper Silesia signed May 15, 1922 expired. Germany was no longer obligated to provide equality to all citizens in this region and so the Nuremberg Laws immediately went into effect there.[20]
Adolf Hitler opened a major art festival in Munich. He made a preview visit to the Degenerate Art Exhibition where a well-known photograph was taken of him passing the Dada wall along with several other Nazi officials.[21][22]
Died:Guglielmo Marconi, 63, Italian physicist and electrical engineer known for his invention of practical wireless communication in the form of telegraphy by radio waves, 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate, died of a heart attack.
The sale of the British newspaper The Morning Post to the rival Daily Telegraph was announced. The Post was discontinued after 165 years in print and absorbed into the Telegraph.[34][35]
Harold Davidson, 62, defrocked Church of England priest, died two days after being mauled by a lion while performing a carnival act, ""Daniel in a modern lion's den"
Hans von Rosenberg, 62, German diplomat, Foreign Minister of Germany from 1922 to 1923
Belfast was shaken by a land mine explosion in the West End, 50 yards from a police barracks.[39]
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