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1,300 convicts in 5-hr riot at Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N Y, set fire to bldgs and storm walls; 3 killed and 20 wounded
Both countries give pledge to Sec Stimson not to start war; border clashes denied
ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 22.--Confident of establishing tomorrow a new world's record for sustained flight, Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brien were flying smoothly high over Lambert-St. Louis field tonight in their monoplane St. Louis Robin.
500 die in Black Sea region; great loss of life in Anatolia
Delegates to unofficial city convention chosen
1929Danny Barcelona, American drummer (died 2007)[†]
Danny Barcelona was an American jazz drummer best known for his years with Louis Armstrong's All-Stars. He was a Filipino-American born in Waipahu, Hawaii, a community of Honolulu, Hawaii. He was also frequently introduced to audiences by Armstrong as "The Little Filipino Boy." Armstrong usually followed up by calling himself "the little Arabian boy."
1929Lateef Jakande, Nigerian journalist and politician, 5th Governor of Lagos State (died 2021)[†]
Lateef Kayode Jakande was a Nigerian journalist and politician who served as governor of Lagos State from 1979 to 1983, and later Minister of Works under the Sani Abacha military regime.