The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing was dedicated in Ypres, Belgium, as a monument to nearly 90,000 soldiers of the British Empire who went missing in action in the three Battles of Ypres in World War I.
Died: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, 35, Japanese short story writer, by suicide; and Maurice E. Crumpacker, U.S. Congressman (R-Oregon), by suicide [REF].