page_title: June 1920
section_title: June 25, 1920 (Friday)
hierarchical_section_title: June 1920 / June 25, 1920 (Friday)
caption_attribution_description: Kitty Gordon
context_page_description: Adolfo de la Huerta was sworn into office as President of Mexico. The former Governor of Mexico's Sonora state had prompted the revolution that had toppled the government of President Carranza in May.
  U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's request to Congress to agree to a U.S. mandate over Armenia, similar to the British and French mandates over former Ottoman territories in the Middle East, was rejected by the U.S. Senate, 52 to 23.
  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Hawke v. Smith that Ohio could not hold a referendum to reverse its ratification of the Prohibition amendment, holding that after the constitution is amended, the ratification cannot be taken back. Ohio, which had become the 36th and ratifying state in 1919, had authorized the holding of a public vote on the issue of retraction, but a restraining order had been issued by a lower court to prevent the printing of ballots. The ruling also meant that state legislatures couldn't take back ratifications of the 19th Amendment permitting women's suffrage.
  The Supreme Court ruled also that the salaries paid to the U.S. president and to federal judges were tax-exempt income.
context_section_description: Arturo Alessandri won the 1920 Chilean presidential election.  This was the last Chilean election to have been decided by the Chilean electoral college.  Luis Barros Borgoño won a majority of popular votes by a margin of 1,007 votes (83,100 to 82,083) but Alessandri had 179 electoral votes to Barros's 175.
  Russia's White Army General Pyotr Wrangel defeated the Soviet army in the Crimea and captured 10,000 prisoners.
  Kitty Gordon, British stage actress who had left London to perform in the United States, accidentally shot and wounded another actor while she was performing in a vaudeville show.  Miss Gordon's partner in the vaudeville act, Jack Wilson, had brought along a pistol "for the double duty of serving as a stage 'prop' and guarding Miss Gordon's '$250,000 worth of jewels'."  While reloading the gun with blanks, Wilson overlooked having a loaded cartridge in the chamber.  Waiting off stage was the next act in the program, the acrobatic trio of Page, Hack and Mack.  The bullet struck Joseph A. Hack and wounded him.  Hack was hospitalized, but recovered from his injuries 
  Born: 
  Jeanne Tomasini, French historical novelist; in L'Estaque (living in 2020)
  Lassie Lou Ahern, American child actress and one of the last survivors of the silent film era; in Los Angeles (d. 2018)
caption: Kitty Gordon
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