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- Jan 1 Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMSR.
- Jan 1 Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established
- Jan 2 Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood Florida, 8 killed (compensation awarded in 1995)
- Jan 4 1st broadcast of "Barn Dance Show" (WBAP - Fort Worth Texas)
- Jan 7 Baltimore Sun warns of the Ku Klux Klan
- Jan 8 Romanian conductor George Enesco makes his American debut leading the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York City
- Jan 8 Typography strike in Amsterdam
- Jan 9 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro flight, Spain
Event of Interest
Jan 9 Swaraj political party founded in India with Chittaranjan Das as president and Motilal Nehru its secretary
Britain's War Debt
Jan 19 UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Stanley Baldwin and US Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon agree to reschedule repayment of Britain's $4.5 billion war debt over 62 years
- Jan 19 WMC-AM in Memphis TN begins radio transmissions
- Jan 23 Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins (through March 9th)
- Jan 24 Aztec Ruins National Monument in New Mexico established
- Jan 25 NVV donates 100,000 guilders to mine workers of Ruhrgebied
- Jan 28 Demonstration against a Dutch University in Ghent
- Jan 29 1st flight of autogiro (Juan de la Cierva, Madrid Spain)
- Jan 31 Montreal Canadiens beat Hamilton Tigers, 5-4 at the Mount Royal Arena, Montreal; first penalty-free game played in NHL history
- Feb 1 Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel
Fascists Voluntary Militia
Feb 1 Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Benito Mussolini
"The Young Idea"
Feb 1 Noël Coward's stage comedy "The Young Idea" premieres at the Savoy Theatre, London; runs for 60 performances
- Feb 2 Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton, Ohio
- Feb 2 US signs friendship treaty with Central American countries
- Feb 3 Soviet Commisision of Commasars (Sovnarkom) approves plans for expanding the Red Air Fleet mail service to include passenger service, seen as the country's start of civil aviation
- Feb 3 Soviet Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) approves plans for expanding the Red Air Fleet mail service to include passenger service, seen as the country's start of civil aviation
- Feb 3 The Alpha Zeta chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia founded at Pennsylvania State University.
- Feb 5 General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar
- Feb 5 Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy
- Feb 8 Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120
- Feb 8 German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily
- Feb 9 Soviet Union Council of Labour and Defence passes resolution creating the Civil Air Fleet of the USSR, the forerunner of Aeroflot Airline
- Feb 10 Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company
- Feb 10 Owen Davis' "Icebound" premieres in NYC
- Feb 10 SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of the Ruhr
- Feb 13 1st Black pro Basketball team, "Renaissance", organizes
- Feb 16 Allies accept Latvia's occupation of Memel territory
Tutankhamun's Burial Chamber Found
Feb 16 Howard Carter opens the inner burial chamber of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb and finds the sarcophagus
NHL Record
Feb 17 Ottawa left wing Cy Denneny passes Joe Malone as all-time NHL goal scoring leader; scores his 143rd career goal in Senators' 2-0 win over Montreal Canadiens
- Feb 18 Belgium: Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages
Music Premiere
Feb 19 Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony premieres
- Feb 19 Philip Barry's play "You & I" premieres in NYC
- Feb 20 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Christy Mathewson becomes President and owner of Boston Braves; buys the team for $300,000 with NY attorney Judge Emil Fuchs and Bostonian James McDonough
- Feb 21 Andre Charlot's musical "Rats" premieres in London
- Feb 22 1st successful chinchilla farm in US (Los Angeles California)
- Feb 22 Transcontinental airmail service begins
- Feb 23 German Republic day with laws against worker
- Feb 23 Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5%
- Feb 24 "Flying Scotsman" locomotive of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), built at Doncaster Railway Works, goes into service [1]
- Feb 24 Mass arrests in US of mafia
- Feb 25 Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 marks
- Feb 26 Italian nationalist & fascists merge (blue-shirts & black-shirts)
- Feb 28 Swedish King Gustaaf V begins state visit to Netherlands
- Mar 1 Allies occupy Ruhrgebied: killing railroad striker
- Mar 3 Time magazine publishes 1st issue featuring Joseph G. Cannon (Speaker of US House of Representatives)
- Mar 3 US Senate rejects membership of the International Court of Justice, The Hague
Lenin on Bureaucracy
Mar 4 Vladimir Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Soviet bureaucracy)
Gardel Argentine Citizenship
Mar 7 French-born tango singer-songwriter Carlos Gardel applies for Argentine citizenship
- Mar 9 Amsterdam taxi strike ends
Adding Machine
Mar 9 Elmer Rice's play "Adding Machine" premieres in NYC
1st President to Pay Tax
Mar 14 US President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st president to pay taxes
- Mar 15 Vladimir Lenin suffer his 3rd stroke
- Mar 16 Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Der Unbestechliche" premieres in Vienna
- Mar 20 Bavarian minister of interior refuses to forbid Nazi Sturm Abteilung
- Mar 20 Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent
- Mar 21 US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition
- Mar 23 Frank Silver and Irving Conn publish their hit song "Yes, We Have No Bananas"
- Mar 25 British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy
- Mar 30 Zeta Phi Beta Sorority formed at Howard U in 1920 incorporates
- Mar 31 First dance marathon in New York City; Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hours with 6 different partners
- Mar 31 Occupying French soldiers fire on workers when surrounded at Krupp auto factory in Essen, Germany; 6 die, dozens wounded
- Mar 31 Stanley Cup Final, Denman Arena, Vancouver, BC: Ottawa Senators (NHL) edge Edmonton Eskimos (WCHL), 1-0 for a 2-0 series sweep
- Apr 3 2 "Black Sox" sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary
- Apr 6 King Oliver and his Creole band record “Dippermouth Blues” during the second day of sessions at Gennett Records in Richmond, Indiana [1]
- Apr 6 The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia
- Apr 7 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney
- Apr 7 Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
- Apr 9 In 'Adkins vs Children's Hospital', the US Supreme Court finds that the minimum wage law for women and children, adopted by the District of Columbia, is unconstitutional
- Apr 9 Sean O'Casey's "Shadow of a Gunman" premieres in Dublin
- Apr 10 Adolf Hitler demands "hatred & more hatred" in Berlin, Germany
- Apr 13 US Army wins 1st college three-weapon fencing championships
- Apr 14 Etienne Oehmichen sets helicopter distance record of 358 meters
- Apr 15 1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (NYC)
- Apr 15 Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics
- Apr 17 Longest NL opening game, Phillies & Dodgers tie 5-5 in 14
- Apr 18 74,000 (62,281 paid) on hand for opening of Yankee Stadium
- Apr 18 Poland annexes Central Lithuania
- Apr 19 New Egyptian law allows suffrage for men, except soldiers
- Apr 23 Inauguration ceremonies take place at Gdynia, Poland to mark its new status as a temporary military port and fishers' shelter
- Apr 24 General harbor strike begins in NYC
- May 1 Adolf Hitler and Ernst Rohm attempt to break up socialist May Day demonstrates, inviting Nazis from as far away as Nuremberg to take part in the violence
Sports History
May 2 MLB Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches his 100th shutout, beats Yanks 3-0
- May 3 1st nonstop north American transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed
- May 4 Bloody street battles between Nazis, socialist & police in Vienna
- May 4 New York state revokes its Mullan-Gage Act Prohibition law; federal Volstead Act still in place
- May 7 Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad
Hobbs Scores 100th Century
May 8 England Test opening batsman Jack Hobbs scores his 100th 1st-class cricket 100 with 116 not out for Surry v Somerset at Bath
- May 11 10 HRs hit in Phillies 20-14 victory over St Louis Cardinals at the Baker Bowl in Philadelphia
- May 13 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Willa Cather for her World War I-based novel "One of Ours"
- May 15 Cooperation of Dutch Molen forms
- May 17 Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School, South Carolina
- May 19 KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies
- May 23 Launch of Belgium's SABENA airline: first flight from Brussels to Lympne, England
Stanley Baldwin Prime Minister
May 24 Stanley Baldwin succeeds Andrew Bonar Law as British Prime Minister
- May 25 Britain recognizes Transjordan with Abdullah as its leader
- May 26 Inaugural 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race for cars starts through public roads around Le Mans, France; inaugural winners: André Lagache and René Léonard (France) for Chenard & Walcker
- May 26 Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg
- May 28 US Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere
Hansen's Nordic Premieres
May 30 Howard Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic" premieres
BBC Radio Sports
Jun 6 Edgar Wallace becomes the first British radio sports journalist reporting on The Derby for the British Broadcasting Company (BBC)
Albert Anastasia Convicted
Jun 6 Gangster Albert Anastasia is convicted of illegal possession of a firearm and sentenced to two years in prison
- Jun 9 American cash carrying company Brinks unveils 1st armored security vans
Bulgarian Premier Overthrown
Jun 9 Bulgarian premier Aleksander Stamboliyski overthrown in a coup led by the military
Houdini's Straight Jacket Escape
Jun 12 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in NYC
Marcus Garvey Sentenced
Jun 21 Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud
1st Aerial Refueling
Jun 27 Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
- Jun 28 MLB Brooklyn Robins blow 7-0 lead, as Phillies win 8-7 at the Baker Bowl in Philadelphia
Queen's UK State Visit
Jun 28 Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry of the Netherlands state visit to London, England
Dempsey vs Gibbons
Jul 4 Jack Dempsey beats Tommy Gibbons on points over 15 hard fought rounds in Shelby, Montana to retain world heavyweight boxing title
- Jul 6 Rail crash on New Zealand's main trunk line; 17 killed and 28 injured
Soviet Union Founded
Jul 6 The Central Executive Committee accepts the Treaty of Union, signed in Moscow in December 1922, and the Russian Empire becomes the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Jul 7 Cleveland Indians set an AL record 27 runs including 13 in the 6th in 27-3 win v Boston Red Sox
- Jul 7 University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne)
Mittelholzer Flies to Spitsbergen
Jul 8 Walter Mittelholzer flies a Junkers F-13 to Spitsbergen/Oostland
- Jul 8 Warren G. Harding becomes 1st sitting US President to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla)
- Jul 10 2-pound hailstones kill 23 and many cattle in Rostov, Russia
- Jul 10 All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy
- Jul 11 Harry Frazee, sells the baseball team Red Sox to Ohio businessmen for $1M
- Jul 13 American explorer Roy Chapman Andrews discovers the first recognised dinosaur eggs, in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia
Hollywoodland
Jul 13 The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland" but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949
- Jul 15 Italian parliament accepts new constitution
- Jul 17 Carl Mays gives up 13 runs and 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians
- Jul 18 British House of Lords accepts new divorce law
- Jul 19 WRC-AM in Washington, D.C. begins radio transmissions
- Jul 20 New York Yankees hit into a triple-play, but beat Philadelphia A's 9-2
- Jul 21 Phillies score 12 in 6th and beat Cubs 17-4
- Jul 22 Washington Senators future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Walter Johnson becomes 1st to reach 3,000 career strikeout milestone (en route to 3,508) with 5 K's in 3-1 win over Cleveland Indians
- Jul 24 Allied Powers and Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne
- Jul 25 German mark devalued to 600,000 Mark=$1
Einstein on Pacifism
Jul 29 Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin
- Jul 29 KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany
- Jul 30 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica
- Jul 31 Belgian Chamber discusses bilinguality at Ghent University
- Aug 3 Baseball games cancelled following the death of US President Warren G. Harding
President Calvin Coolidge
Aug 3 Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th US President upon death of President Warren G. Harding
Gustav Stresemann Chancellor
Aug 6 Gustav Stresemann is named chancellor and foreign minister during riots and strikes in Germany
- Aug 6 Henry Sullivan becomes 3rd person and first American to swim English Channel (27 hours 25 minutes Dover-Calais)
- Aug 9 NY State Golf Association formed
- Aug 11 Dutch Premier de Geer resigns
- Aug 12 Dutch AR-leader Coair replaces De Geer as minister of finances
- Aug 12 Enrico Tiraboschi is 1st to swim English Channel westward
- Aug 13 Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of German coalition government
President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Aug 13 Turkish National Congress selects Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Pasha as 1st President of Turkey
- Aug 13 US Steel Corp initiates 8-hour work day
Arrest of de Valera
Aug 15 Eamon de Valera arrested in Irish Free State
Mile World Record
Aug 23 Paavo Nurmi of Finland runs world record for 1 mile of 4:10.4 in Stockholm; record stands until 1931
- Aug 24 Paavo Nurmi of Finland runs world record 3 mile time of 14:11.2 in Stockholm; intermediate time during 5000m event
- Aug 31 Italian troops occupy Corfu
- Aug 31 League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German)
- Aug 31 Mussolini orders the Greek Government to apologize for the deaths of an Italian general and his staff on the Greco-Albanian border
- Sep 1 A magnitude 7.9 earthquake strikes Tokyo and Yokohama in Japan, killing 142,000 people
- Sep 3 Dorothys Donelly's "Poppy" premieres in NYC
- Sep 4 A Charlot & N Coward's revue "London Calling" premieres in London
- Sep 4 Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah
- Sep 4 New York Yankees pitcher "Sad" Sam Jones no-hits Philadelphia A's, 2-0
- Sep 5 Flyweights Gene LaRue & Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously
- Sep 6 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands celebrates her silver jubilee
- Sep 7 Boston Red Sox Howard Ehmke no-hits Philadelphia A's, 4-0
- Sep 7 Interpol forms in Vienna
- Sep 8 Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost.
- Sep 9 Albin Stenroos runs world record 20 km (1:07:11.2)
- Sep 10 Irish Free State joins League of Nations
- Sep 11 After a single, Boston Red Sox pitcher Howard Ehmke retires next 27 New York Yankees
- Sep 11 Bernie Neis, hits the 1,000th Dodger home run
- Sep 11 ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower
- Sep 12 Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co.
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