In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Evans_Hughes" id="mw2Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Charles Evans Hughes">Charles Evans Hughes</a> and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes–Peynado agreement, which ends the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_the_Dominican_Republic_(1916–24)" id="mw2g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–24)">United States occupation of the Dominican Republic</a>.