Events 1 - 200 of 308
- Jan 1 9th Rose Bowl: Southern California beats Penn State, 14-3
- 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
- Jan 9 Swaraj political party founded in India with Chittaranjan Das as president and Motilal Nehru its secretary
- Jan 10 Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany)
- Jan 10 Lithuania seizes & annexes country of Memel
- Jan 11 1st Dutch Dada-evening (Theo Van Doesburg & Kurt Schwitters)
- Jan 11 French & Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations
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
Event of Interest
Feb 1 Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Benito Mussolini
Music History
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 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 Aeroflot airlines forms
- 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
- Feb 16 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
Sports History
Feb 16 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
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
Event of Interest
Mar 4 Vladimir Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Soviet bureaucracy)
Music History
Mar 7 Carlos Gardel applies for Argentine citizenship
- Mar 9 Amsterdam taxi strike ends
Event of Interest
Mar 9 Elmer Rice's "Adding Machine" premieres in NYC
Event of Interest
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 82nd Grand National: Capt. Tuppy Bennett wins aboard 13-year-old 100/6 shot Sergeant Murphy; first US bred horse to win race
- 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 French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die
- 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 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
Boston Marathon
Apr 16 27th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar in 2:23:37.4 for second straight year; 3rd race victory
- 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
- Apr 28 Wembley Stadium opens - Bolton Wanderers vs West Ham United (FA Cup)
- 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
Cricket History
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 12 48th Preakness: Benny Marinelli aboard Vigil wins in 1:53.6
- May 13 Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter for "One of Ours"
- May 15 Cooperation of Dutch Molen forms
- May 17 Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School, South Carolina
49th Kentucky Derby
May 19 49th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande wins aboard Zev for his first Derby success
- 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
Event of Interest
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
- May 30 Indianapolis 500: 1921 champion Tommy Milton becomes first multiple race winner; Howdy Wilcox drives relief for laps 103-151 as Milton's hands are bandaged due to blisters
- May 31 China & USSR exchange diplomats
- May 31 The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) forms in Durban, South Africa, with Omar Hajee Amod Jhaveri as President
- Jun 1 New York Giants rout Philadelphia Phillies, 22-5 at the Baker Bowl; first time in 20th century a MLB team has scored in every inning
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 55th Belmont: Earl Sande riding Zev wins in 2:19
- Jun 9 Brinks unveils 1st armored security vans
Film & TV History
Jun 12 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in NYC
British Golf Open
Jun 15 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Troon GC: Englishman Arthur Havers holes a bunker shot on 72nd hole to win his only major title, 1 stroke ahead of defending champion Walter Hagen
Event of Interest
Jun 16 Sun Yat Sen founds Chinese military academy
- Jun 19 Comic Strip "Moon Mullins" debuts
Event of Interest
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 Dodgers lost 7-0 lead, as Phillies score 8 in bottom of 9th
Event of Interest
Jun 28 Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry of the Netherlands state visit to London
Boxing Title Fight
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
- 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
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 6 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen of France beats Kitty McKane 6-2, 6-2 for her 5th straight Wimbledon singles title
- 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)
- Jul 7 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bill Johnston beats fellow American Frank Hunter 6-0, 6-3, 6-1 for his only Wimbledon title
Event of Interest
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 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
US Golf Open
Jul 15 US Open Men's Golf, Inwood CC: Amateur legend Bobby Jones captures his first career major championship, defeating Bobby Cruickshank by 2 strokes in an 18-hole Sunday playoff
- 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 Yanks hit into a triple-play but beat A's 9-2
- Jul 21 Phillies score 12 in 6th and beat Cubs 17-4
- Jul 22 17th Tour de France won by Henri Pelissier of France
- 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
Event of Interest
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
Event of Interest
Aug 3 Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th US President upon death of President Warren G. Harding
Event of Interest
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
Appointment of Interest
Aug 13 Turkish National Congress selects Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Pasja as 1st President of Turkey
- Aug 13 US Steel Corp initiates 8-hour work day
Event of Interest
Aug 15 Eamon de Valera arrested in Irish Free State
- Aug 15 Mexico & US reaches accord over oil concession of 1917
- Aug 18 Australasian Championships Men's Tennis, Brisbane: Pat O'Hara Wood wins his 2nd Australasian title; beats fellow Australian Bert St John 6-1, 6-1, 6-3
- Aug 18 Australasian Championships Women's Tennis, Brisbane: Margaret Molesworth retains title; beats Esna Boyd 6-1, 7-5
US Open Women's Tennis
Aug 18 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Germantown CC, PA: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla Bjurstedt Mallory 6-2, 6-1 for her first of 7 US singles crowns
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)