Mao: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun”
The phrase was originally used by Mao during an emergency meeting of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on 7 August 1927, at the beginning of the Chinese Civil …
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Buck v. Bell: Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Compulsory Sterilization of the Unfit
One of the worst Supreme Court rulings in history. In the 1927 case Buck v. Bell, the court upheld a statute that enabled the state …
Calvin Coolidge Address Before the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D.C. – “… As there were Fathers in our Republic so there were Mothers.”
Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution: Coming to address the Thirty-fifth Continental Congress of the National Society of the Daughters American Revolution reminds …
President Calvin Coolidge Speech At the Unveiling of the Equestrian Statue of Francis Asbury: ‘Our Government Rests Upon Religion.”
Washington, DC | October 15, 1924 This occasion cannot but recall to our minds in a most impressive way the sacrifice and devotion that has …
Lord Montagu Norman: “When, through process of law, the common people lose their homes, they will become more docile and more easily governed…”
The following quotation was reprinted in the Idaho Leader, USA, on 26th August 1924, and has been read into the Australian Federal Hansard twice: by …
Hitler Sets out His Plans to a Wealthy donor in Secret Meeting at Munich’s Regina Palast Hotel
From Chapter 10 of David Irving’s biography of Heinrich Himmler: [Canvassing a wealthy diplomat for funds at the end of 1922 Hitler put his cards …
The First Radio Broadcast of a Presidential Speech
On June 14, 1922, President Warren G. Harding, while addressing a crowd at the dedication of a memorial site for the composer of the “Star Spangled …
Tomb of Unknown Soldier is dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery
The United States Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery — following a reverential selection process that spanned the Atlantic Ocean …
Tulsa Race Riots of 1921: 26 Blacks, 10 Whites Killed, Greenwood Commercial District Destroyed
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In what some historians have called “the …
Governor Louis Hart Signs the ‘Alien Land Bill’ and a second “Prevention of Procreation” Statute
The 1921 session of the Washington State Legislature is not considered one of its most admirable. Lawmakers that year bestowed the state’s official imprimatur on …