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Herakles
Sep 1 Frank Wedekind's play "Herakles" premieres in Munich
Treaty of Versailles
Sep 3 President Woodrow Wilson set out on a tour of the USA to rouse public opinion behind the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations
- Sep 4 British intervene in Petrograd
Sivas Congress
Sep 4 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.
- Sep 9 Boston's police force goes on strike
Hydrofoil Sets Speed Record
Sep 9 Hydrofoil designed by Alexander Graham Bell, his wife Mabel Bell and F.W. Casey Baldwin sets new water speed record of 114 km/h on Bras d'Or, Nova Scotia [1]
- Sep 10 China becomes a member of the League of Nations
- Sep 10 Cleveland Indians pitcher Ray Caldwell no-hits New York Yankees, 3-0 at the Polo Grounds, NYC
NYC Welcomes Pershing
Sep 10 NYC welcomes home General John J. Pershing and 25,000 WWI soldiers
- Sep 10 Treaty of St Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany
- Sep 11 US Marines again send troops to Honduras
Hitler Joins Worker's Party
Sep 12 Adolf Hitler joins the obscure German Worker's Party as its seventh member, agreeing not with worker's rights, but with its German Nationalism and antisemitism
Italian Regency of Carnaro
Sep 12 The poet Gabriele D'Annunzio organizes a militant nationalist group and takes Fiume (Rijeka) for Italy
- Sep 13 Guy Bolton & George Middleton's "Adam & Eve," premieres in NYC
- Sep 14 British regime forbids Sinn Féin Dáil
- Sep 16 American Legion incorporated by an act of US Congress
- Sep 16 Dutch Ruether beats Giants 4-3 to clinch Cincinnati 1st NL pennant
- Sep 18 Dutch second chamber accepts female suffrage
- Sep 18 Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drowns 280 along Gulf Coast
- Sep 20 Booth Tarkington's play "Clarence," premieres in NYC
Woodrow Wilson's Breakdown
Sep 25 US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a breakdown in Pueblo, Colorado, his health never recovers
- Sep 27 Boston Red Sox slugger Babe Ruth takes his MLB home run record to 29 with a 3rd inning blast in a 7-5 defeat at the Washington Senators' Griffith Stadium
- Sep 27 British troops withdraw from the North Russian town of Archangelsk after fighting Bolsheviks/Soviets
- Sep 27 Democratic National Committee votes to allow female members
- Sep 27 Pitcher Bob Shawkey sets then Yank record with 15 strike-outs
- Sep 28 Fastest major league game (51 mins), Giants beat Phillies 6-1
- Sep 30 Avery Hopwood's "Gold Diggers" premieres in NYC
- Sep 30 Elaine Massacre: Arkansas state militia and rioters kill over 200 hundred Black people in response to sharecroppers' attempt to organize against landowners; trials of survivors for murder leads to Supreme Court enacted judicial reforms [1] [2] [3]
- Oct 2 First edition of the Dutch newspaper "Volkskrant" (The People's Paper) is published
- Oct 2 US President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed
- Oct 3 Serbian, Croatian and Slavic Parliament passes an accord for an 8 hr work day
- Oct 5 Norwegian population agrees to prohibition
- Oct 6 Stambuliski becomes premier of Bulgaria
- Oct 7 KLM (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij), Royal Dutch Airlines, one of the oldest existing airline) is founded in Amsterdam
- Oct 9 Baseball World Series: Cincinnati Reds beat Chicago White Sox, 10-5 at Comiskey Park for a 5-3 series victory; due to 'Black Sox Scandal' last WS to take place without a Commissioner of Baseball in place
The Woman Without a Shadow
Oct 10 Richard Strauss and Hugo van Hofmannsthal's opera "Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without A Shadow)", premieres in Vienna, Austria
- Oct 15 14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vermont to Massachusetts for $1000 prize money
- Oct 17 Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is created as a subsidiary of General Electric
- Oct 18 Belvin Maynard wins the first transcontinental air race in round trip of nine days, four hours, 25 minutes and 12 seconds, race costs nine lives with 54 crashes or forced landings
1st Earl Beatty
Oct 18 David Beatty is created 1st Earl Beatty, Viscount Borodale, and Baron Beatty of the North Sea and Brooksby
- Oct 19 1st US Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a living female recipient, Anna Howard Shaw
- Oct 23 Orchestra Hall, designed by C. Howard Crane opens in Detroit, Michigan; home of the Detroit Symphony, 1919-39 and 1989 to present, also known as The Paradise Theater, featuring top jazz performers and films, 1941-51
- Oct 23 Romberg & Atteridge's musical "Passing Show" premieres in NYC
- Oct 26 B C Hilliam's musical "Buddies" premieres in NYC
Elgar's Cello Concerto
Oct 26 Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, his last notable work, premieres at Queen's Hall, London
- Oct 26 US President Woodrow Wilson's veto of Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden
- Oct 27 Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim
- Oct 28 Volstead Act passed by US Congress, establishing prohibition, despite President Woodrow Wilson's veto
- Oct 30 Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of spitball
- Nov 1 British Admiral David Beatty becomes First Sea Lord
- Nov 5 Ir à Steringa Idzerda begins hosting "soirée-musical" on Dutch radio
- Nov 6 1st Dutch radio program: Soirée Musicale with "Turf in you(r) ransel" is broadcast
- Nov 7 US police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers
- Nov 10 1st observance of National Book Week
- Nov 10 American Legion's 1st national convention (Minneapolis)
- Nov 11 Pope Benedictus XV states Roman Catholics political and business views
- Nov 12 Ross & Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia
- Nov 14 Red Army captures Omsk, Siberia
- Nov 15 US Senate 1st invokes the Cloture Rule to end a filibuster, passes Versailles Treaty [1]
- Nov 16 Admiral Miklós Horthy, head of the Hungarian National Army, seizes Budapest and will later become regent of the restored Kingdom of Hungary
- Nov 18 H. Tierney & J. McCarthy's musical "Irene" premieres in NYC
- Nov 19 US Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 55 to 39; Congress two years later approves resolution ending hostilities with Germany and Austria-Hungary
- Nov 20 1st municipally owned airport in US opens in Tucson, Arizona
- Nov 22 15,000 men are cremated at Domela Newenhouse, Amsterdam
- Nov 22 Labor conference committee in US urges 8-hour work day and 48-hour week
Paderewski Resigns
Nov 27 Ignacy Jan Paderewski resigns as Polish Prime Minister after ten months
- Nov 27 Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine: Allies & Bulgaria
1st Woman MP
Nov 28 American-born Lady Nancy Astor elected as the 1st female member of the British House of Commons (to take her seat)
- Dec 1 AA Milne's comedy play "Mr Pim Passes By" premieres in Manchester
- Dec 1 Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament
- Dec 10 NL votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers
- Dec 10 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US President Woodrow Wilson
Ban Johnson Controversy
Dec 10 NY, Boston, & Chicago, oppose AL resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties
- Dec 11 Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Alabama
- Dec 13 Ross & Smith land in Australia from a flight from London
- Dec 15 Edna St Vincent Millay's play "Aria da Capo" premieres in NYC
- Dec 15 Fiume (Rijeka, modern Croatia) declares its Independence
- Dec 17 Austrian parliament approves 8-hour working day
- Dec 19 American Meteorological Society found
- Dec 20 Canadian National Railways established (N America's longest, 50,000 KM)
- Dec 20 US House of Representatives restricts immigration
US Deports Radical Aliens
Dec 21 J. Edgar Hoover persuades US to deport 250 alien radicals, including anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman and her husband to Russia
- Dec 23 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched
- Dec 23 Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace
- Dec 26 Yankees and Boston Red Sox reach agreement to move future Baseball Hall of Fame pitching slugger Babe Ruth to New York
- Dec 27 Red Sox owner Harry Frazee announces they will deal any player except Harry Hooper, Hooper is sent to the White Sox after 1920 season
- Dec 30 Lincoln's Inn in London admits its first female bar student.
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