Events in History
Events 101 - 200 of 208
- May 30 Memorial to Capt Eddie Grant, killed in WW I, unveiled at Polo Grounds
- May 30 Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany
- May 31 Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1,700
- Jun 1 Race riot in Tulsa Oklahoma (21 whites & 60 blacks killed)
- Jun 3 A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado
- Jun 6 Detroit Stars' Bill Gatewood pitches the 1st no-hitter in Negro League history, defeating the Cuban Stars 4-0
- Jun 11 Brazil adopts women's suffrage
- Jun 15 Bessie Coleman reaches France as US 1st black pilot
- Jun 19 Census held in Great Britain
- Jun 19 Turks and Christians of Palestine sign a friendship treaty against Jews
- Jun 20 11.5" (29.2 cm) of rainfall, Circle, Montana (state record)
- Jun 20 At the Imperial Conference in London, V.S. Srinivasa Sastri puts forward a case for the granting of full citizenship rights to Indians in South Africa and other British colonies
- Jun 21 The UK, the Dominions, and India, become the British Commonwealth of Nations
World Record
Jun 22 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:40.2)

Paavo Nurmi
Event of Interest
Jul 2 Warren G. Harding signs a joint congressional resolution declaring the official end of war with Germany

Warren G. Harding
Event of Interest
Jul 16 Encouraged by the British, King Constantine of Greece launches a drive to take Asia Minor from nationalists under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- Jul 18 Black Sox trial begins in Chicago
Event of Interest
Jul 20 Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson becomes the first woman to preside over the floor of US House of Representatives

Alice Mary Robertson
- Jul 21 Indians (9) & Yankees (7) hit a record 16 doubles
- Jul 21 To prove his contention that air power is superior to sea power, US Colonel William Mitchell demonstrates how bombs from planes can sink a captured German battleship
- Jul 23 Chinese communist party forms under guidance of Henk Sneevliet
- Jul 27 2nd government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
Event of Interest
Jul 27 Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto

Frederick Banting
- Jul 29 New rules of language assumed (equal rights Flemings/Walen Belgium)
Event of Interest
Jul 29 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party

Adolf Hitler
- Jul 30 The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) forms; the party changed its name to the South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1953, after it had been forced underground
- Aug 2 Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox
- Aug 3 1st aerial crop dusting in Troy, Ohio, to kill caterpillars
- Aug 5 Treaty of Berlin: US and Germany sign separate peace treaty
- Aug 6 Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins

Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Aug 13 Simon Kaufman & Marc Connelly's "Dulcy" premieres in NYC
- Aug 14 Tannu Tuva, later Tuvinian People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Russia).
- Aug 16 Members of the Dail (parliament) swear allegiance to the Irish Republic at their first meeting, held at Dublin House
Event of Interest
Aug 22 J. Edgar Hoover becomes Assistant Director of the FBI

J. Edgar Hoover
- Aug 23 British declare a truce with Irish Nationalists Sinn Fein
- Aug 23 Austria and the US formally end war; the US does the same with Germany on the 25th, and Hungary on the 29th
- Aug 24 Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey & Greece
- Aug 24 British airship R-38 crashes in River Humber, 44 die
- Aug 25 US signs peace treaty with Germany
- Aug 25 The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain, a civil uprising in Logan County, West Virginia
- Aug 28 2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels & Paris)
- Sep 1 Nederlander Theater opens at 208 W 41 St NYC (Billy Rose, Trafalgar)
- Sep 3 KPB, Communist Party of Belgium forms
- Sep 9 Guatamala, Honduras, and San Salvador agree to Central American Union
- Sep 11 Nahalal, the first moshav in Israel, is settled.
- Sep 15 Pope Benedict XV publishes encyclical Alcohol Paraclitus
- Sep 15 WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions
- Sep 21 Pope Benedictus XV donates 1 million lire to feed Russians
- Sep 21 A storage silo at a BASF fertiliser producing plant explodes in Oppau, Germany, 500—600 killed
- Sep 22 The League of Nations accepts membership of independent Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
- Sep 26 Yankee Ruth hits HRs 57 & 58 to beat Indians 8-7
- Sep 27 Yanks beat Indians 21-7 in Polo Grounds
- Sep 29 Pirates drop doubleheader to Cards to allow idle Giants to clinch NL
- Oct 1 WJZ, Newark NJ begins broadcasting
- Oct 4 League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians
- Oct 4 Riccardo Zanella becomes first elected President of Free State of Fiume
- Oct 5 Present constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect
- Oct 6 Century Theater opens at 7th Ave & 59th St NYC (demolished 1962)
- Oct 6 International PEN is founded in London.
- Oct 17 Belgium's public library law goes into force
- Oct 18 Biding its time, Soviet Russia agrees to independence for the Crimea
- Oct 19 Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup
- Oct 20 Germany and Allies comes to an agreements over reparation payments in a meeting at Wiensbaden
- Oct 20 The French and Mustafa Kemal nationalists sign a treaty at Ankara fixing the Turko-Syrian border
- Oct 21 Tuschinski Theater opens in Amsterdam
- Oct 21 Former Hungarian King Karl stages a second attempted coup and is arrested
- Oct 26 Solomon Porter Hood named US minister to Liberia
- Oct 28 First American gubernatorial recall election is held in South Dakota. Governor Lynn Frazier loses to Ragnvald A. Nestos.
- Oct 29 The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
- Nov 1 National Birth Control League & Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League
- Nov 2 Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie" premieres in NYC
- Nov 4 The Sturmabteilung or SA (the "Brown Shirts") is formally formed by Adolf Hitler
- Nov 4 Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo
- Nov 5 Soviet Russia signs a treaty with Mongolia, temporarily supporting the new government against China and Japanese incursions
- Nov 7 Hungary passes a law invalidating the Habsburg line of succession to the throne

Benito Mussolini
- Nov 11 US President Warren G. Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery
- Nov 12 Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
- Nov 13 US, France, Japan and British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty
- Nov 14 The Communist Party of Spain is founded
- Nov 15 KYW-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
- Nov 21 The trial of the accused of the Bulhoek Massacre commences in South Africa
- Nov 23 US President Warren G. Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes
- Nov 28 Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Baha (Baha'i festival-Qawl 6, 78)
- Nov 29 Coldest day in November in Netherlands -14.0°C
- Dec 1 1st US helium-filled dirigible makes 1st flight
- Dec 1 US Post Office establishes philatelic agency
- Dec 4 The Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle ends in a hung jury
Treaty of Interest
Dec 6 Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland

Michael Collins
Election of Interest
Dec 6 Mackenzie King, leader of the Labor Party and architect of a liberal coalition, is voted Prime Minister of Canada

Mackenzie King
Birthdays in History
Birthdays 101 - 200 of 273
Arthur Leonard Schawlow
May 5 Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work with lasers, born in Mount Vernon, New York (d. 1999)

Arthur Leonard Schawlow
- May 6 Erich Freid, Austrian and British writer, born in Vienna (d. 1988)
- May 6 Robert Fell, CEO (British Stock Exchange)
- May 8 Graham Leonard, Bishop of London
- May 9 Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004)
- May 9 Daniel Berrigan, American Jesuit priest and peace activist (Vietnam War), born in Virginia, Minnesota (d. 2016)
- May 9 Sophie Scholl, German anti-Nazi political activist, active in the non-violent resistance group, the White Rose (Die Weisse Rose), born in Forchtenberg, Germany (d. 1943)
- May 11 Ian Percival, British politician (C) and Solicitor General (d. 1998)
- May 11 Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician
- May 12 Giovanni Benelli, archbishop (Florence)/Papal candidate
- May 12 Henry Mackie, designer of the Belfast Calorimeter
- May 12 Joseph Beuys, German avant-garde painter/politician
- May 12 Farley Mowat, Canadian writer and naturalist, born in Belleville, Ontario, (d. 2014)
- May 13 Syd[ney G] Vincent, British mine workers leader
- May 16 Robert Croften Brown, politician
- May 17 Dennis Brain, french-hornist (Serenade), born in London, England
- May 17 John Garlick, British senior civil servant
- May 18 Anthony Epstein, FRS/pathologist
- May 19 Charles van de Reve, slavic (Belief of Kameraden)
- May 19 Karel van het Reve, Dutch Slavist (Comrade's Religion)
- May 19 William H. Stewart, 10th US Surgeon General (1965-69), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 2008)
- May 20 John Harrison, British vice admiral/surgeon
- May 20 John Marchi, US Senator (Rep-R-NY)
- May 20 Wolfgang Borchert, German writer, born in Hamburg (d. 1947)
Andrei Sakharov
May 21 Andrei Sakharov, Russian nuclear physicist and an activist for disarmament, peace and human rights (1975 Nobel), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1989)

Andrei Sakharov
- May 23 Sanderson Temple, circuit judge
- May 27 Caryl Chessman, kidnapper who got death penalty (1960)
- May 28 Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999)
- May 28 Tom Uren, Australian politician, Australian heritage and conservation campaigner, born in Sydney, New South Wales (d. 2015)
- May 29 George Terry, chief constable (Sussex England)
- May 31 Andrew Grima, British jeweller
- May 31 Robert Arthur Ley, UK, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X)
- Jun 2 Alexander Salkind, producer (Superman)
- Jun 8 Alwyn Williams, Vice-Chancellor (Glasgow U)
Prince Philip
Jun 10 Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh and consort of Great Britain's Elizabeth II, born in Mon Repos, Corfu, Greece

Prince Philip
- Jun 11 Beatrice "Fiet" van Ommeren-Samson, Suriname writer
- Jun 11 Michael Meyer, UK, novelist/Ibsen translator (Hedda Gabler)
- Jun 12 H. C. Artmann, Austrian writer, born in Vienna (d. 2000)
- Jun 12 Christopher Derrick, British writer (d. 2007)
- Jun 16 Lord Perry of Walton, SDP/vice chancellor (Open University England)
- Jun 19 Allan Davis, London mayor (1985-86), born in London (d. 1994)
- Jun 19 Herman Berserik, Dutch painter/graphic artist
- Jun 19 Howell T Heflin, (Sen-D-Alabama, 1979- )
- Jun 19 Rosalyn Yalow, famed award winning medical physicist
- Jun 21 Jean de Broglie, French politician
- Jun 22 Barbara F Vucanovich, (Rep-R-NV, 1983-1997), (d. 2013)
- Jun 22 Gower Champion, choreographer (42nd Street, Showboat)
- Jun 23 Jean [Jean Benoît Guillaume Robert Antoine Louis Marie Adolphe Marc d'Aviano], Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1964-2000), born in Berg Castle, Luxembourg
- Jun 26 Abe Jan Koldijk, SS-physician (Limburg's family doctor)
- Jun 26 Violette Szabo, French WWII secret agent, born in Paris, France (d. 1945)
- Jun 27 G M J Veldkamp, Dutch politician (CDA)
- Jun 28 P.V. Narasimha Rao, Indian politician, Prime Minister of India (1991-96), born in Warangal District, India (d. 2004)
- Jun 29 Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000)
- Jul 1 Seretse Khama, 1st President of Botswana (1966-80), born in Serowe, Botswana (d. 1980)
- Jul 4 Gerard Debreu, French economist (Nobel 1983)
Nancy Reagan
Jul 6 Nancy Reagan [Anne Francis Robbins], US First Lady (1981-89), born in NYC, New York (d. 2016)

Nancy Reagan
Dmitri Polyakov
Jul 6 Dmitri Polyakov, Soviet Major General and spy for the CIA, born in Ukraine (d. 1988)

Dmitri Polyakov
- Jul 7 Adolf von Thadden, German politician (d. 1996)
- Jul 9 Jacob J Hage, Dutch farmer/WW II resistance fighter
- Jul 10 Harvey Ball, American inventor (d. 2001)
- Jul 12 Trevor Illtyd Williams, scientific writer
- Jul 13 Friedrich Peter, Austrian poltitician (d. 2005)
- Jul 14 Geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist
- Jul 14 Leon Garfield, English children's author (d. 1996)
- Jul 14 Sixto Durán Ballén, Ecuadorian politician, President of Ecuador (1992-96), born in Boston, America (d. 2016)
- Jul 16 Bernard Rogers, supreme Allied commander Europe
- Jul 16 Trevor Williams, scientific consultant
John Glenn
Jul 18 John Glenn, American astronaut (1st American to orbit the earth) and politician (Senator D-Ohio), born in Cambridge, Ohio (d. 2016)

John Glenn
- Jul 19 Rosalyn Yalow, medical physicist
- Jul 22 William V Roth Jr, (Sen-R-Delaware, 1971- )
- Jul 23 David Lawmn, CEO (Prestige Group)
- Jul 23 Harry Hookway, pro-chancellor (Loughborough University)
- Jul 23 Peter Twiss, test pilot
- Jul 25 John Christopherson, artist/collector
- Jul 29 Aled Eames, Welsh maritime historian, born in Llandudno (d. 1996)
- Jul 30 Jacques Vander Schueren, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs
- Jul 31 Whitney M Young Jr, civil rights leader, head of Urban League
- Jul 31 Peter Benenson, British founder of Amnesty International, born in London (d. 2005)
- Aug 1 Vic Marshall, chemist
- Aug 3 Hayden Carruth, novelist (Crow & Heart), born in Waterbury, Connecticut
- Aug 7 M J bin Gorion, writer
- Aug 8 John Herbert Chapman, British physicist (d. 1979)
- Aug 8 Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian medical scientist (d. 2001)
- Aug 9 J James Exon, (Sen-D-Nebraska, 1979- )
- Aug 9 Ernest Angley, televangelist
- Aug 10 Leonard Lickorish, dir-gen (British Tourist Authority)
Alex Haley
Aug 11 Alex Haley, writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), born in Ithaca, New York (d. 1992)

Alex Haley
- Aug 12 Patrick Howard-Dobson, president (Royal British Legion)
- Aug 14 Giorgio Strehler, theatre director
- Aug 17 Geoffery Rudolph Elton, historiographer
- Aug 18 Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., Polish art historian
- Aug 19 Philip A Potter, Dominica sec-gen World council of Churches
- Aug 22 James Menter, British physicist and principal (Queen Mary College), born in Teynham, Kent (d. 2006)
- Aug 23 Kenneth Arrow, American economist, (Nobel Prize 1972), born in NYC, New York (d. 2017)