Events in History
- Jan 11 Insulin first used on humans to treat diabetes, when Frederick Banting injects fellow Canadian Leonard Thompson, aged 14
- Feb 2 James Joyce's "Ulysses" first published by Sylvia Beach in Paris (1,000 copies)
- Feb 21 Britain declares Egypt a sovereign state
- Mar 18 British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years imprisonment for disobedience
- Apr 3 Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party by an ailing Vladimir Lenin
- Sep 21 US President Warren G. Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine
- Oct 3 1st facsimile photo sent over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C.
- Nov 4 Howard Carter discovers the intact tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt
- Nov 17 The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, is expelled to Malta on a British warship
- Nov 26 English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun's virtually intact tomb in Egypt
- Dec 30 Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre, Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR
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Yitzhak Rabin
Jack Kerouac
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Kurt Vonnegut
Charles M. Schulz
Stan LeeHistorical Marriages
- Feb 14 Soldier Douglas MacArthur (42) marries 1st wife heiress Louise Cromwell Brooks (32)
- Feb 28 English Princess Mary marries Viscount Lascelles at Westminster Abbey
- Jul 18 British naval officer Louis Mountbatten (22) weds Lord Mount Temple's daughter Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley (20) at St. Margaret's in Westminster, London
Historical Divorces
- Nov 13 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (55) divorces socialite Catherine Tobin after 33 years of marriage
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Ernest Shackleton
Nellie Bly
Alexander Graham Bell
Enver Pasha
Arthur Griffith
Michael CollinsArticles and Photos
Record-Breaking Sheila, the High-Flying Aviator
The Sky's was the limit for Sheila Scott who made three solo flights around the world and was the first pilot, male or female, to fly over the North Pole.April 27End of the Ottoman Empire
The last Ottoman sultan, Mehmed VI, departs his palace in Istanbul after the abolition of the monarchyNovember 1Soviet Union Founded
Signature page of the Treaty on the Creation of the USSRDecember 30
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