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Mead Arrives in Samoa
Aug 31 Anthropologist Margaret Mead first arrives in Samoa
- Sep 1 Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of International Olympic Committee; replaced by Henri de Baillet-Latour of Belgium
- Sep 3 The airship USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) crashes in a storm near Caldwell, Ohio, killing 14, 29 survive
- Sep 5 112 F (44°C), Centerville, Alabama (state record)
- Sep 5 29th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones
- Sep 13 1st US University for African Americans, Xavier University, opens in New Orleans
- Sep 13 MLB Brooklyn Robins pitcher Dazzy Vance no-hits the visiting Philadelphia Phillies, 10-1 at Ebbets Field
- Sep 22 New York left fielder Ben Paschal hits 2 inside-the-park-home runs as the Yankees score an 11-6 home victory over Chicago White Sox
- Sep 23 George Kaufman's "Butter & Egg Man" premieres in NYC
- Sep 23 Washington shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh is named AL MVP
- Sep 26 Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead
- Sep 29 French General of Morocco, Marshal Lyautey, is dismissed
- Sep 29 Greek republican constitution enforced
- Sep 30 General Pangulos disbands Greek parliament
Josephine Baker
Oct 2 Josephine Baker first performs in Paris in La Revue Nègre at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
Heilmann Pips Cobb
Oct 4 Harry Heilmann gets 6 hits in Detroit's doubleheader sweep over St Louis Browns, 10-4 and 11-6, to edge Tris Speaker for AL batting crown, .393 to .389; Ty Cobb bats over .300 for the 20th time
- Oct 5 The Lacarno Conference meets: Germany agrees to recognise their frontiers with France and Belgium and will apply for membership in the League of Nations
- Oct 5 WSM-AM in Nashville Tenn begins radio transmissions
- Oct 6 Greek premier Papanastasiou orders gen Pangulos arrested
- Oct 11 Belgian episcopelian speaks against Flemish activism
- Oct 11 NY Giants play 1st NFL game, lose to Providence 14-0
- Oct 12 Albert Michelsen runs world record marathon (2:19:01.8)
- Oct 12 German-Russian trade agreement signed
- Oct 14 Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee)
- Oct 15 Willem Landré's opera "Beatrice" premieres in The Hague
- Oct 16 Peace accord of Locarno signed (Rhine Pact)
- Oct 16 Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution
- Oct 18 -20] French Gen Sarrail bombs Damascus
Lazzeri Hits 60
Oct 18 Salt Lake City (PCL) Tony Lazzeri hits his 60th HR of the season
- Oct 19 Italian army takes Somalia
- Oct 21 Sidney Howards "Lucky Sam McGarver" premieres in NYC
- Oct 25 Lester Patrick takes over NY Rangers
- Oct 25 Rightist German ministers disavows Treaty of Locarno
- Oct 27 Water skis patented by Fred Waller
- Oct 30 KUT-AM in Austin TX begins radio transmissions
- Oct 31 Cossack officer Reza Chan replaces sultan Ahmad as Shah of Persia
- Nov 1 VARA, Vereniging van Workers Radio Amateurs forms in Amsterdam
- Nov 5 British secret agent Sidney Reilly ('Ace of Spies') is executed in a forest near Moscow by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union
Cosmic Rays Discovery
Nov 9 Robert A. Millikan confirms the existence of cosmic rays from outer space in a speech to the National Academy of Sciences at Madison, Wisconsin
- Nov 11 American scientist Robert A. Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays
- Nov 11 City of Chicago, Illinois renames Municipal Grant Park Stadium, as Soldier Field, in honor of US soldiers killed in combat during World War I
- Nov 11 Earnest Thalmann becomes chairman of German KPD
Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five
Nov 11 Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five begin their first recording session at Okeh Records in Chicago
Red Grange Signs
Nov 21 Red Grange plays final Univ of Illinois game, signs with Chicago Bears
- Nov 24 1st radio-broadcast of Dutch KRO (Catholic Radio Broadcast)
- Nov 24 Eugene O'Neill Theater (Coronet, Forrest) opens at 230 W 49th St NYC
- Nov 25 KPD proposes German Parliament expropriate possession of monarchy
- Nov 26 Netherlands & Germany sign trade agreement
- Nov 27 German Parliament ratifies treaty of Locarno
Aristide Briand
Nov 28 7th French government of Aristide Briand sworn-in
- Nov 28 Grand Ole Opry premieres as WSM Barn Dance on WSM radio Nashville, Tennessee
Georges Vezina
Nov 28 NHL goalie Georges Vezina collapses and dies 4 months later of TB
- Dec 1 Peace Treaty of Locarno signed between Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, and Italy
Event of Interest
Dec 5 Hans Luther forced to resign as Chancellor and head of the German Weimar government
Easy Virtue
Dec 7 Noël Coward's play "Easy Virtue" premieres in NYC
Ban Johnson's Extended Contract
Dec 9 AL extends Ban Johnson's contract to 1935 & raises to $40,000
- Dec 9 Pro football a hit in NYC; Grange & Bears beat Giants before 73,000
Shaw Awarded Literature Nobel
Dec 10 Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Dec 12 Arthur Heinman coins term "motel" from motor hotel; opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo
Last Shah Deposed
Dec 12 Last Qajar Shah of Iran is deposed; Reza Shah Pahlavi takes over
- Dec 14 Alban Berg's first opera, "Wozzeck" premieres at the Berlin State Opera.
- Dec 15 1st hockey game at Madison Square Garden, NYC: Montreal Canadiens 3, NY Americans 1
- Dec 15 1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic
- Dec 16 Alpha Phi Omega national service fraternity is founded at Lafayette College.
- Dec 17 Colonel William "Billy" Mitchell court-martialed for insubordination
- Dec 17 Soviet Union & Turkey sign non-aggresion pact
- Dec 17 Sultan Abdulaziz Ibn Saud conquers Jeddah, the last major stand of the Hashemites against the Saudis
- Dec 21 "Battleship Potemkin", Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, starring Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barksy and Grigori Aleksandrov, premieres in Moscow
- Dec 21 Test batsman Hunter "Stork" Hendry scores career best unbeaten 325 for Victoria against New Zealand in drawn tour match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
- Dec 26 1st East-West Shrine Bowl game of college football 'all-stars' played before 25,000 fans at Ewing Park, San Francisco. Proceeds continue to benefit Shriners Hospitals for Children.
- Dec 26 NY Americans and Pittsburgh Pirates set an NHL record by recording a combined 141 shots on goal in Americans' 3-1 win; Roy Worters makes incredible 70 saves for Pittsburgh and Jake Forbes has 67 for NY
- Dec 26 The Communist Party of India is founded
"T"ip-Toes
Dec 28 George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin's musical "Tip-Toes" opened at the Liberty Theatre, NYC; runs for 192 performances
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