Barney is one of our dancing friends from the Phoenix Club and he turned 86. His bride, Margo, and us arranged for a cake and we all sang happy birthday. Please join us for the celebration.
Margo and Barney Dance At Barney's 86th Birthday Party
When Barney was born:
- Adolf Hitler’s “Beer Hall Putsch” in Munich fails; in 1924 he is sentenced to five years in prison where he writes Mein Kampf. He is released after eight months.
- Earthquake destroys one-third of Tokyo.
- President Warren G. Harding suddenly falls ill (July 28) while returning from a trip to Alaska and is rushed to San Francisco, where he dies on Aug. 2.
- The second Ku Klux Klan movement in U.S. history grows, stirring widespread controversy and violence.
- Population: 111,947,000
- Federal spending: $3.14 billion
- Unemployment: 2.4%
- Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
- Russian immigrant Vladimir Kosma Zworykin patents the iconoscope, the first television transmission tube. He patents the first color tube in 1925.
- A.C. Nielsen Company is founded and provides measurements of radio audiences for advertisers.
- Harlem’s Cotton Club opens and presents all-black performances to white-only audiences. Entertainers will include Lena Horne, the Nicholas Brothers, and Cab Calloway.
- German Shepherd Rin Tin Tin becomes film’s first canine star.
- Time Magazine debuts.
