Events by Year
Il Duce the Dictator
Jan 3Benito Mussolini dissolves the Italian Parliament and proclaims himself dictator of Italy, taking the title Il Duce (the Leader)
- Jan 4 French psychologist Emil Coué brings his self-esteem therapy to US "Every day in every way I am getting better & better"
- Jan 5 French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey, & Hugh Jennings
- Jan 5 James Gleason & Richard Tabers "Is zat so?" premieres in NYC
- Jan 5 Nellie Tayloe Ross sworn in as Governor of Wyoming, 1st woman governor in USA
- Jan 5 Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdańsk post office
Trotsky and Stalin Battle for Power
Jan 6 Mikhail Frunze replacesLeon Trotsky as People's Commissioner of Military and Native Affairs (Minister of Defence) asTrotsky andJoseph Stalin battle for power in the aftermath ofVladimir Lenin's death
- Jan 6Mussolini forms a cabinet composed entirely of Fascists in Italy
- Jan 6Paavo Nurmi, sets indoor record, 4:13.6 mile & 14:44.6 5,000m
- Jan 8 England cricket opening batsman Herbert Sutcliffe follows his 1st innings 176 with 127 in the 2nd innings but his team cannot avoid an 81 run defeat to Australia in the 2nd Test in Melbourne
- Jan 8 First all-female US state supreme court appointed in Texas
- Jan 9 German Postal Minister A Hofle resigns due to corruption
- Jan 10 Allies refuse to evacuate the Cologne area of Germany as agreed
- Jan 10 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as Governor of Texasr, 2nd US woman governor, 1st ever elected
Secretary of State Kellogg
Jan 11Frank Kellogg replaces Charles Hughes as US Secretary of State
- Jan 12 John Howard Lawson's "Processional" premieres in NYC
Chancellor Hans Luther
Jan 15Hans Luther becomes Chancellor of Germany after forming a government with the DNVP
- Jan 19 -48°F (-44°C), Van Buren, Maine (state record)
- Jan 20 The Soviet and Japan sign a convention resuming relations: Russia agrees to limit revolutionary activity of the Third Communist International, while Japan agrees to leave the Sakhalin
- Jan 24 Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island
- Jan 28 -46°F (-43°C), Pittsburgh, New Hampshire (state record)
Lloyd George Liberal Leader
Jan 29 British Liberal Party choosesDavid Lloyd George as leader
- Jan 30 Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople
- Jan 31 Albanian parliament announces itself a republic, and selects Prime Minister Ahmed Zogu as president
- Feb 1 1st national conference of KPD's Rotfrontkämpferbund in Berlin
- Feb 2 Belgian episcopacy rejects liberalism, communism & socialism
- Feb 2 Dogsleds reach Nome with emergency diphtheria serum after 1000-km
- Feb 2 NL holds Golden Jubilee Year meeting at same hotel where NL began
Event of Interest
Feb 7 AnthropologistRaymond Dart publishes his landmark paper about the discovery of Australopithecus africanus (the Taung Child), confirmingCharles Darwin's prediction of an African human origin[1]
Marcus Garvey Imprisoned
Feb 8Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta
Security Treaty
Feb 9 German MinisterGustav Stresemann proposes security treaty with France
- Feb 9 Haifa Technion (Israel) opens
- Feb 10 1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Indiana
- Feb 12 1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress
- Feb 12 E. Thieffry departs with Handley Page for the Belgian Congo
- Feb 12 Estonia passes Law on Cultural Self-Government for National Minorities, allowing a unique degree of autonomy to ethnic and religious groups of 3,000 or more
- Feb 13 US Congress makes Supreme Court appeals more difficult
- Feb 14 State of emergency crisis in Bavaria ends, NSDAP re-allowed
- Feb 16 Rescuers finally reach the body of caver Floyd Collins too late, 18 days after he became trapped in Sand Cave, Kentucky, bringing a tragic end to a story that had captured the nation[1]
- Feb 21 1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine published
- Feb 21 Mass meeting of SPD's Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold in Magdeburg
- Feb 24 Thermite explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington, NY
- Feb 25 Diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union established
- Feb 25 Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska
- Feb 26 Jihad against Turkish government
German History
Feb 27Adolf Hitler resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich
Cricket Debut
Feb 27 Test Cricket debut ofClarrie Grimmett, who took 5-45 & 6-37 v England
- Feb 28 "Tea For Two" by Marion Harris hits #1
- Feb 28 Congress authorizes a special handling stamp
- Feb 28Hans Luther assumes the role of acting head of state following the death of President Friedrich Ebert
- Feb 28 Longest win streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (9 games)
- Feb 28 Theater Museum of Amsterdam forms
- Mar 2 Dutch Socialists demand drastic disarmament
- Mar 2 Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage
- Mar 2 Nationwide road numbering system & US shield marker adopted
- Mar 2 SDAP-Second-Faction of parliament demands drastic disarmament
- Mar 4 Swain's Island, a remote coral atoll, is annexed by the United States and incorporated into American Samoa
- Mar 4 US President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations
- Mar 6 Belgium annexes Eupen, Malmö dy & Sankt Vith
- Mar 7 American Negro Congress organizes
- Mar 9 Pink's War, the first RAF operation conducted independently of the Army or Navy, begins
- Mar 10 Cyprus becomes a British crown colony
1st Flight Over Mt Demawend
Mar 10Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to fly over Mount Demawend in Iran
British Refuse Geneva Agreement
Mar 12 British government ofStanley Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement
Roncalli Made Bishop
Mar 19 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (future PopeJohn XXIII) becomes a bishop, appointed as Apostolic Visitor to Bulgaria
- Mar 21 Edinburgh's Murreyfield Stadium officially opens
- Mar 21 Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijri calendar
- Mar 21 Tennessee governor Austin Peay passes the "Butler Act," making Tennessee the 1st state to outlaw teaching the theory of evolution (repealed 1967)
- Mar 24 KSL-AM in Salt Lake City UT begins radio transmissions
- Mar 30 Stanley Cup Final, Patrick Arena, Victoria, BC: Victoria Cougars (WCHL) beat Montreal Canadiens (NHL), 6-1 for a 3-1 series win; last non-NHL team to win trophy
- Mar 31 WOWO-AM, Ft Wayne Indiana begins radio transmission (500 watts)
- Apr 1 1st transmission of Danish state radio
- Apr 1 Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated [see May 9, 1925]
- Apr 3 Great Britain goes back to gold standard
- Apr 3 Netherlands and Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde
- Apr 5 Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election
The Great Gatsby
Apr 10 Scribners publishes "The Great Gatsby" byF. Scott Fitzgerald
- Apr 10 Tsaritsyn renamed Stalingrad (now Volgograd)
- Apr 11 Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco
- Apr 13 Virginia Theater (ANTA, Guild) opens at 245 W 52nd St NYC
- Apr 14 First regular-season Chicago Cubs game broadcast on radio (WGN) by caller Quin Ryan; Cubs beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 8-2
- Apr 15 NHL's NY Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) 1st game, lose 3-1
- Apr 16 During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 wounded
- Apr 17 NY YankeeBabe Ruth has ulcer surgery
Event of Interest
Apr 17 Paul Painlevé succeeds Edouard Herriot as French premier
Sports History
Apr 21 No baseball games played in NL due toCharles Ebbets' funeral
Fallen Angels
Apr 21Noël Coward's controversial comedy play "Fallen Angels" premieres in London, after initially being refused a license due to the loose morals of the female characters
Frasquita
Apr 23 1st London performance ofFranz Lehár’s operetta "Frasquita" is staged
- Apr 23 Having badly defeated Spain and driven her out of Spanish Morocco, the native Riffi, led by Abd-el-Krim, turn on the French in French Morocco
- Apr 23 Pastor LH Perquin forms Union of Catholic Dutch Radio (KRO)
- Apr 24 88°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April
Hindenburg Elected
Apr 25Paul von Hindenburg is elected the President of Germany
Diego Rivera Leaves Communist Party
Apr 26 ArtistDiego Rivera resigns from the Mexican Communist Party
- Apr 26 Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for "So big"
- Apr 28 Kurdish rebels surrender to Turkish army
- Apr 28 Netherlands & Great Britain return to gold standard
- Apr 28 The “Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes” begins in Paris, France; it draws 16 million visitors over seven months, and later becomes the source for the term sescribing the design movement of 'art deco'
- Apr 30 Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity
Jimmie Foxx MLB Debut
May 1 Future Baseball Hall of Fame catcherJimmie Foxx makes his MLB debut at 17 for Philadelphia A's; pinch-hits a single in 9-4 loss v Washington
John Scopes Arrested for Teaching Evolution
May 5 Dayton teacherJohn T. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
- May 5 Yankee Everett Scott is benched, ending his 1,307-game playing streak
- May 6Ty Cobb hits his 5th HR in 2 games tying Cap Ansons record of 1884
- May 7 1st projection planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich, Germany
- May 7 MBA Pittsburgh Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play
- May 7 Phillies have their 8th game postponed in a row
- May 8 French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco
- May 9 Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem, laid
- May 10 To control demonstrations against foreigners, British troops in Shanghai fire into a crowd, leading to a boycott against British goods
- May 11 Communist Party of Holland splits
- May 11 Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region constituted in RSFSR
- May 12 Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan become autonomous Soviet republics
Mrs Dalloway
May 14Virginia Woolf's novel "Mrs Dalloway" is published by The Hogarth Press
Speaker Hits 3,000
May 17 Cleveland IndianTris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit
- May 21 George Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, becomes British High Commissioner in Egypt
- May 21 Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes for the North Pole
- May 26Babe Ruth is finally out of bed, 5 weeks after ulcer surgery
- May 26 Future Baseball Hall of Fame center fielderTy Cobb is first to collect 1,000 extra-base hits when he doubles in Detroit Tigers' 8-1 win against the Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park
- May 30 British mariners shoot on demonstrators
- May 30 In China protests erupt against the Great Powers infringing on Chinese sovereignty.
- May 30 Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy
Gehrig Begins Record Run
Jun 1 Future NY Yankees Hall of FamerLou Gehrig pinch hits for shortstop Pee-Wee Wanninge in a 5-3 loss to Washington; first of record 2,130 consecutive games
Collins Hits 3,000
Jun 3 MLB Chicago White Sox baseball player-managerEddie Collins becomes the 6th to collect 3,000 hits
Chrysler Founded
Jun 6Walter Chrysler reorganizes the failing Maxwell Motor Company and founds automobile manufacturerChrysler Corporation in Detroit, Michigan
- Jun 10 Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches held in Toronto Arena
- Jun 13 American William DeHart Hubbard sets men's long jump world record at 7.89m (25 ft 10 3⁄4 in) in Chicago, Illinois
- Jun 13 Charles Jenkins demonstrates the transmission of synchronized pictures and sound (early television)
- Jun 15 MLB Philadelphia As go into bottom of 8th inning trailing 15-4, then score 13 times to defeat Cleveland Indians 17-15, at Shibe Park
- Jun 16 The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek, is established
- Jun 16 The Union Government rejects a round-table conference with India on the grounds that it will constitute interference in South African affairs
- Jun 22 Spain and France fight Morocco
- Jun 23 British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers
- Jun 23 Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide Lake" (Gros Ventre Wyoming)
- Jun 25 Military putsch under General Theodorus Pangulos in Greece
The Gold Rush
Jun 26 Silent film "The Gold Rush," directed, starring, and written byCharlie Chaplin, is released and becomes the fifth highest-grossing silent film of all time
- Jun 29 Canada House opens in London, England
- Jun 30 Charles Jenkins is granted the U.S. patent for Transmitting Pictures over Wireless (early television)
- Jul 1 SDAP wins 4 chairs in Dutch Second-Parliamentary election
- Jul 1 Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in UK
- Jul 4 MLB New York Yankees Herb Pennock beats Philadelphia A's Lefty Grove 1-0 in 15 innings in first game of a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium
- Jul 4 The former Dreyfus Hotel collapses in Boston, Massachusetts, killing 44 of an estimated 200 patrons dancing in the second floor Pickwick Club
- Jul 8 Ralph Samuelson (19) performs the world's first water ski jump on Lake Pepin n Lake City, Minnesota[1]
- Jul 10 Jury selection takes place in USJohn T. Scopes evolution trial
- Jul 10 Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
- Jul 10 USSR's official news agency TASS is formed
Hendrikus Colijn Prime Minister
Jul 11 QueenWilhelmina of the Netherlands appoints Hendrikus Colijn of the Anti-Revolutionary Party as head of the Dutch government
- Jul 13 French occupation force begins evacuating country
- Jul 16 The first parliament in Iraq opened by King Feisal in Baghdad
- Jul 17Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits
- Jul 18Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf, original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice"
- Jul 20 Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France
- Jul 20 Treaty of Nettuno between Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia) is signed but is only ratified in 1928
Scopes Monkey Trial
Jul 21John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in the “Scopes monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, fined $100 and costs
Yankees Buy Durocher
Jul 22 NY Yankees buy future Baseball Hall of Fame shortstopLeo Durocher from Hartford Senators (Eastern League)
- Jul 23 NY YankeeLou Gehrig hits his first of 23 career grand slams
- Jul 31 Last allied occupying troops leave German Ruhr region
- Jul 31 Unemployment Insurance Act passed in Britain
- Aug 1 Shortwave radio link between Kootwijk and Netherlands East Indies
- Aug 3 Last US troops leave Nicaragua (there since 1912)
- Aug 4 First Dutch government of Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn forms
- Aug 4 US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation
- Aug 5 Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language, which is in danger of dying out
- Aug 7 League of Nations advises against the Turkish/Iraqi division of the Mosul region
- Aug 8 First national march of the Ku Klux Klan (between 25,000 and 40,000 marchers) in Washington, D.C.
- Aug 9Babe Ruth pinch-hits for Bobby Veach and flies out
- Aug 10 Hurricane strikes Borculo, Netherlands, killing four people
- Aug 12 KMA-AM in Shenandoah, IA, begins radio transmissions
- Aug 12 The first cast of Alpha Psi Omega, drawn from The Masquers of Fairmont College, West Virginia, is initiated
- Aug 12 The tariff law comes into force in Germany, setting tariffs for industry and agriculture based on pre-war rates
- Aug 14 Moccasin Powerhouse along the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct in California is completed
- Aug 14 Mount Rushmore Monument is first proposed
- Aug 15 Norway annexes Spitsbergen
- Aug 18 Belgium and US sign treaty about war debts
- Aug 18 Cardinal Mercier warns Belgians against socialism and liberalism
- Aug 20 WJR-AM in Detroit, Michigan, begins radio transmissions
- Aug 21 Dutch football club FC Emmen is formed in the town of Emmen in the northeastern province of Drenthe in the Netherlands
- Aug 25 Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes in Harlem, New York
- Aug 25 Last Belgian troops vacate Duisburg
- Aug 28 Meteorite falls on Ellemeet, Schouwen, Devil's Island
- Aug 29 After a night on the town,Babe Ruth shows up late for batting practice, and Miller Huggins suspends Ruth and imposes a $5,000 fine on him
- Aug 30 Sixth Iron Pilgrimage at Diksmuide, Belgium
Mead Arrives in Samoa
Aug 31 AnthropologistMargaret 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) in Centerville, Alabama (state record)
- Sep 13 1st US University for African Americans, Xavier University, opens in New Orleans
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