U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill granting Indians full citizenship on the 2nd of June, 1924. He is photographed here with four Osage Indians.
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On this day: Morris Dancers in England
Young Morris dancers gather in Lymm, Cheshire, England on Whit Monday, which fell on the 21st of May, 1923.
On this day: the death of Winnipeg the bear
Winnie in 1914 X
Winnipeg (or Winnie), a female black bear from Canada and the inspiration for Winnie-the-Pooh, died in London Zoo on the 12th of May, 1934. She was twenty at the time.
Winnie and Harry Colebourn X
Winnie was purchased as an orphaned cub at a train stop in Ontario in 1914. She was bought for $20 by Harry Colebourn, a twenty-seven year old veterinarian who had volunteered for World War One and was on his way to report for duty. He named her after his hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Winnie plays with Canadian soldiers during WW1.
Winnie, who became a military mascot, was kept in London for the years Colebourn served in the war, and he eventually donated her to the zoo.
Winnie-the-Pooh makes a debut on Christmas Eve, 1925. X
The inspiration for Winnie-the-Pooh came after creator A. A. Milne’s son Christopher Robin visited the bear at the zoo and changed the name of his toy bear from “Edward Bear” to “Winnie the Pooh”.
On this day: the Butler Act is enacted
On the 21st of March, 1925, the Butler Act, a Tennessee law banning the teaching of evolution, and forcing public school teachers to acknowledge the Biblical account of the origin of humankind, came into effect.
Austin Peay
Signed into law by Austin Peay, the Governor of Tennessee, it was infamously challenged in court a few weeks afterwards.
The law stayed in effect until 1967.
On this day: a dictator and his pet
Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini photographed with his pet lion cub, Ras on the 16th of February, 1924. He would run Italy for another twenty-one years before being captured and executed alongside his mistress Clara Petacci. His wife was elsewhere at the time.
On this day: the premiere of Metropolis
Iconic futuristic German film Metropolis premiered on the 10th of January, 1927.
Filmed in 1925 but set in the year 2026, the film is set in a city with ruling elites and poor workers living beneath them.
The film’s New Tower of Babel. X
Containing ground-breaking special effects, the film’s initial budget was 1.5 million reichsmarks, but increased to 5.1 million. Stories of the director forcing long working hours in difficult conditions on the actors (including 500 children) emerged from the set.
Metropolis regularly makes film critics’ lists of history’s greatest movies.
On this day…
Italian-Americans Lodovico and Maria Angelica Calderara pose with their family in front of their Christmas tree.
26th December, 1924.
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