24th July 1919
Aftermath of War
General Sir H. H. Wilson promoted to Field-Marshal.
Military sent into Washington, D.C. to restore order after race riots rampage all over the city.
Five members of the US Air Service departed Bolling Field, Washington, D.C., in a Glenn Martin Bomber for the “Round-the-Rim Flight” around the periphery of US. They arrived back at Bolling on Nov. 9, 1919. The distance of approximately 10,000 miles was flown in 114 hours, 45 minutes.
A man and a woman on their way to being executed as German spies.
At the Erzurum Congress, the Turkish Revolutionaries elect Mustafa Kemal as chairman of the congress and declare “the motherland [Turkey] is a whole and cannot be divided.”
