Il Duce
Jan 3 Benito 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 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
Event of Interest
Jan 6 Mikhail Frunze replaces Leon Trotsky as People's Commissioner of Military and Native Affairs (Minister of Defence) as Trotsky and Joseph Stalin battle for power in the aftermath of Vladimir Lenin's death
- Jan 6 Mussolini forms a cabinet composed entirely of Fascists in Italy
- Jan 8 1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, 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
US Secretary of State
Jan 11 Frank Kellogg replaces Charles Hughes as US Secretary of State
- Jan 12 John Howard Lawson's "Processional" premieres in NYC
- Jan 15 Hans Luther forms German government, with 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 21 Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe president
- Jan 22 Albania Republic proclaimed under President Achmed Zogu
- Jan 24 Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island
- Jan 24 Sandler follows Branting as premier of Sweden
- Jan 28 -46°F (-43°C), Pittsburgh, New Hampshire (state record)
Event of Interest
Jan 29 British Liberal Party chooses David Lloyd George as leader
- Jan 30 Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople
- Jan 31 Premier Ahmed Zogu becomes president of Angola
- 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
Marcus Garvey Imprisoned
Feb 8 Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta
Treaty of Interest
Feb 9 German Minister Gustav 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 25 US Women's Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran
- Feb 26 Jihad against Turkish government
German History
Feb 27 Adolf Hitler resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich
- Feb 28 Congress authorizes a special handling stamp
- 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 (near American Samoa) annexed by US
- 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
Event of Interest
Mar 10 Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to fly over Mount Demawend in Iran
Agreement of Interest
Mar 12 British government of Stanley Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement
Appointment of Interest
Mar 19 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (future Pope John 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 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 & Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde
- Apr 5 Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election
- Apr 6 1st film shown on an airplane (British Air)
The Great Gatsby
Apr 10 Scribners publishes "The Great Gatsby" by F. 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 16 During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 wounded
- Apr 17 Paul Painlevé succeeds Edouard Herriot as French premier
- Apr 18 World's Fair opens in Chicago
- Apr 21 Chuvash Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Chuvash ASSR
- 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 President
Apr 25 Paul von Hindenburg is elected the President of Germany
Diego Rivera Leaves the Communist Party
Apr 26 Artist Diego 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 30 Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity
- May 1 Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony
- May 2 Kezar Stadium opens in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park
- May 4 League of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage
- May 5 Afrikaans is established as an official language in South Africa.
John Scopes Arrested for Teaching Evolution
May 5 Dayton teacher John T. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
- 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 & Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics
Historic Publication
May 14 Virginia Woolf's novel "Mrs Dalloway" is published by The Hogarth Press
- 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 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
- Jun 3 Goodyear airship "Pilgrim" is the first to have an enclosed cabin
Chrysler Founded
Jun 6 Walter Chrysler founds automobile manufacturer Chrysler Corporation
- Jun 10 Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches held in Toronto Arena
- Jun 15 Philadelphia As go into bottom of 8th inning trailing 15-4, then score 13 times to defeat Cleveland 17-15
- 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
- Jun 29 Canada House opens in London, England
- Jul 1 SDAP wins 4 chairs in Dutch Second-Parliamentary election
- Jul 1 Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in UK
- Jul 4 44 die when Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses
- Jul 10 Jury selection takes place in US John 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 forms
Appointment of Interest
Jul 11 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands names Hendrikus Colijn of the Anti-Revolutionary Party as head of Dutch government
- Jul 13 French occupation force begins evacuating country
- Jul 16 The first parliament in Iraq opened by King Feisal in Baghdad
- Jul 18 Adolf 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 Italian-Serbian/Croatian/Slav treaty about Dalmatie
- Jul 21 John T. Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution in the “Scopes monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, fined $100 and costs
- Jul 31 Last allied occupying troops leave Ruhrgebied
- Jul 31 Unemployment Insurance Act passed in Britain
- Aug 1 Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk and Netherland East-Indies
- Aug 3 Last US troops leave Nicaragua (there since 1912)
- Aug 4 1st 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 Nation advises against Turk/Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied
- Aug 8 1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (between 25,000 and 40,000 marchers) in Washington, D.C.
- Aug 10 Hurricane strikes Borculo, 4 die
- 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 14 Mount Rushmore Monument first proposed
- Aug 14 The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.
- Aug 15 Norway annexes Spitsbergen
- Aug 18 Belgium & US sign treaty about war debts
- Aug 18 Cardinal Mercier warns Belgians against socialism/liberalism
- Aug 20 WJR-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
- Aug 25 Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem NY)
- Aug 25 Last Belgian troops vacate Duisburg
- Aug 28 Meteorite falls on Ellemeet, Schouwen, Devil Island
- Aug 30 6th Iron pilgrim at Diksmuide Belgium
Event of Interest
Aug 31 Anthropologist Margaret Mead first arrives in Samoa
- 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 13 1st US University for African Americans, Xavier University, opens in New Orleans
- Sep 23 George Kaufman's "Butter & Egg Man" premieres in NYC
- 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
- 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 12 German-Russian trade agreement signed
- Oct 14 Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee)
- 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
- Oct 19 Italian army takes Somalia
- Oct 21 Sidney Howards "Lucky Sam McGarver" premieres in NYC
- 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
- Nov 5 Mussolini disbands Italian socialist parties
- Nov 7 Italians liberal-national party joins fascist
- Nov 9 German NSDAP (Nazi party) forms Schutzstaffel (SS)
Event of Interest
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
- Nov 11 Night of Kersten - Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn's Dutch government falls by SGP-amendement
- Nov 12 US & Italy sign peace accord about war debts
- Nov 16 American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY)
- Nov 16 Philip Barry's play "In a Garden" premieres in NYC
- Nov 24 1st radio-broadcast of Dutch KRO (Catholic Radio Broadcast)
Event of Interest
Nov 24 Eugene O'Neill Theater (Coronet, Forrest) opens at 230 W 49th St NYC
Event of Interest
Nov 28 7th French government of Aristide Briand sworn-in
- Dec 1 Peace Treaty of Locarno signed between Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, and Italy