Chronography of events from 1 January 1920 to 31 December 1929
Page last modified 12 June 2023
(-9999) = Day count to end of World
War Two in Europe (day zero = Tuesday).
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31 December 1929, Tuesday (-5,607) Pope
Pius XI condemned co-education as harmful to Christian training.
29
December 1929, Sunday (-5,609) William
Maybach, German car designer, died aged 83.
24 December 1929, Tuesday (-5,614)
Philip Sandeman Ziegler, author, was born
23 December 1929, Monday (-5,615) Chet Baker,
US singer, was born in Yale, Oklahoma (died 13 May 1988 in Amsterdam)
22 December 1929. Sunday (-5,616) (1) The All-India National Congress demanded Indian
independence.
(2) China and Russia agreed to withdraw troops from the
border as their dispute over the eastern railway ended.
19
December 1929, Thursday (-5,619) UK
Parliament passed the Coal Mines Bill, It allocated quotas and provided for a 7
�� hour day.
16
December 1929, Monday (-5,622) Ivor
Allchurch, footballer, was born.
12 December 1929, Thursday (-5,626) Alberto da Costa Pereira, Portuguese
footballer, was born.
11 December 1929, Wednesday (-5,627) Sir Kenneth MacMillan, dancer and
choreographer, was born
10 December 1929, Tuesday (-5,628) Harry Crosby, wealthy American poet and
publisher, died aged 31 from a self-inflicted gunshot.
9 December 1929, Monday (-5,629) Bob
Hawke, Australian Labour Prime Minister 1983-91, was born.
8 December 1929. Sunday (-5,630) Hitler�s
Nazi Party won municipal elections in Bavaria.
7 December 1929, Saturday (-5,631) (India, Islam) Agha
Khan 1I1 was married at a private ceremony in Aix les Bains, France, to a
former candy store clerk and dressmaker. He was founder and first President of
the all-India Muslim League.
6 December 1929, Friday (-5,632)
US marines were sent to Haiti to quell a revolt there.
5 December 1929, Thursday (-5,633) 94 mph winds swept across Britain,
killing 26 people.
4 December 1929, Wednesday (-5,634)
The House of Lords voted 43 to 21 against the UK resuming diplomatic relations
with the USSR.
3 December 1929, Tuesday (-5,625) President Hoover delivered his first State
of the Union speech to Congress.
2 December 1929. Monday (-5,636) Britain got its first 22 public phone boxes.
1 December 1929. Sunday (-5,637) Major Thames floods.
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30 November 1929, Saturday (-5,638) (Russia, China) Soviet planes bombed the Manchurian
town of Pokutu.
29 November 1929. Friday (-5,639) US Admiral Richard Byrd, with pilot
Bernt Balchen, became the first to fly over the South Pole.
28 November 1929. Thursday (-5,640) Berry Gordy, US musician, was born
in Detroit
24
November 1929, Sunday (-5,650) Georges
Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France, died.
21 November 1929. Thursday (-5,647) Henry
Ford raised workers wages in all his car plants.
20 November 1929, Wednesday (-5,648)
First exhibition of work by Salvador Dali.
19 November 1929, Tuesday (-5,649) Sean
Kelly, cycling champion, was born in Waterford, Ireland.
17
November 1929, Sunday (-5,651) Nikolai
Bukharin, Head of the Third International since 1926 and a potential rival to
Joseph Stalin, was expelled from the Soviet Communist party.
13 November 1929, Wednesday (-5,655)
(1) The Toronto stock market crashed.
(2) The Bank for International Settlements was founded.
12 November 1929, Tuesday (-5,656)
Grace Kelly, US actress, was born.
11 November 1929, Monday (-5,657) Anti-Japanese occupation
protests in Korea.
9 November 1929, Saturday
(-5,659) Imre Kertesz, writer, was born.
7 November 1929, Thursday (-5,661) The
Museum of Modern Art opened in New York on a rented space on 5th
Avenue, Manhattan.
6 November 1929, Wednesday (-5,662) The Week in Westminster was first
broadcast on UK radio.
5 November 1929, Tuesday (-5,663)
Christopher Davidge, rower, was born.
3
November 1929, Sunday (-5,665)
2 November 1929, Saturday (-5,666) The first News Theatre Cinema opened
in New York, the Embassy.
1 November 1929, Friday (-5,667) The Pony Club movement was founded in
Britain.
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31 October 1929, Thursday (-5,668)
(Canada,
Morals)
Nova Scotia voted to repeal Prohibition. This left Prince Edward Island as the
only �dry� region in Canada.
30 October 1929, Wednesday (-5,669) General Election in Ontario. The
Conservatives, led by Howard Ferguson, won with an increased majority.
29 October 1929, Tuesday
(-5,670) The
Montreal stock market crashed.
28 October 1929, Monday (-5,671) The London stock market crashed.
27 October 1929, Sunday (-5,672) Elections in Czechoslovakia were won by the
Republican Party of Agricultural and Smallholder Peoples.
26 October 1929, Saturday (-5,673) All London buses to be painted red.
Earlier trials with yellow and red proved unpopular.
25 October 1929, Friday (-5,674) Chewing gum magnate William Wrigley Jr
stated that business was good and prospects bright.
24
October 1929. Thursday (-5,675) New York stock market
crash. See 22 May 1933. The Stock market opened to brisk selling and as the
ticker tape was unable to cope with the volume of shares trading (12 million
shares were traded that day), prices fell further, and worried investors sold
more as prices fell. By 11.30 am. There was total chaos on the market. There
were eleven suicides from ruined investors in New York alone. On 28 October 1929
the London Stock Exchange also fell sharply, and New York stocks fell further on 29 October 1929.
23 October 1929, Wednesday (-5,676)
A sudden and unanticipated rush of selling hit the New York stock market.
22 October 1929, Tuesday (-5,677) The Brazilian airline Panair do Brasil
began operation as NYRBA do Brasil S.A.
21 October 1929, Monday (-5,678) (1) Irish rural electrification received a boost
when the Shannon hydroelectric scheme began operating this day. Until now only
about a third of Dublin and a quarter of Cork had electricity; the new scheme,
at a cost of �5 million, would greatly increase the electricity supply.
(2) The BBC began transmitting regional services, from an
aerial at Brookman�s Park, north of London.
(3) In Egypt, the Wafd Nationalist Party won the
elections.
18
October 1929, Friday (-5,681) Violeta Chamorro, President of
Nicaragua, was born.
15 October 1929, Tuesday (-5,684)
Nadir Khan was proclaimed King of Afghanistan, after Emir Amanullah fled the
country on 22 May 1929.
14 October 1929, Monday (-5,685) The R101 airship went on its first
trials above London from its Cardington hangar in Bedfordshire.� The airship was 732 feet long and held 5
million cubic feet of hydrogen; power was from 5 diesel engines.
13 October 1929, Sunday (-5,686) Walasse
Ting, Chinese-American poet, was born in Shanghai. He died in 2010.
12 October 1929, Saturday (-5,687) (1) The
last British troops left the Rhineland, moving out of their base in Wiesbaden.
(2) Magnus Magnusson, British writer and TV presenter of
the quiz show Mastermind, was born in Reykjavik, Iceland.
11 October 1929, Friday (-5,688) Graham
Roberts, actor, was born.
10 October 1929, Thursday (-5,689) (Astronomy)
Irvin Shapiro was born in New York City, USA. In 1971 he researched quasars.
8
October 1929, Tuesday (-5,691)
Betty Boothroyd, UK politician, was born.
3 October 1929. Thursday (-5,696) The name of the Kingdom of the
Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes was changed to Yugoslavia. The name change was an attempt
to eradicate longstanding historical divisions within the country.
2 October 1929, Wednesday (-5,697) Britain set up a committee to consider
the establishing of National Parks.
1 October 1929, Tuesday (-5,698) Britain resumed diplomatic relations
with Soviet Russia.
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30 September 1929, Monday (-5,699)
The first experimental TV broadcast was made by the BBC.
29 September 1929, Sunday (-5,700)
Lata Mangeshkar, musician, was born.
28 September 1929, Saturday (-5,701) In India, marriage of girls
aged under 14 was banned by the Sarda Act.
27 September 1929, Saturday (-5,764) In France, Raymond Poincare resigned due to
ill health. Aristide Briand became Prime Minister.
26 September 1929, Thursday
(+5,703) John Schrober became chancellor of Austria.
25 September 1929, Wednesday
(-5,704) Jimmy Doolittle, champion US aviator, performed the first
�blind flight�, taking off, flying a set course and landing again all under a
fabric hood so he couldn�t see outside the plane.
24 September 1929. Tuesday (-5,705) Workers in the USSR were given 2
days off a week.
23 September 1929, Monday (-5,706) The $1.5 million, 21,000-seat St. Louis
Arena opened.
22 September 1929. Sunday (-5,707) Communists and Nazis fought on the
streets of Berlin.
20
September 1929, Friday (-5,709) Anna
Meara, actress, was born.
18 September 1929, Wednesday (-5,711)
Professor Dick Grimsdale, who built the first transistorised computer, was born
(died 6 December 2005)
17 September 1929, Tuesday (-5,712)
Stirling Moss, motor racing champion, was born.
16 September 1929. Monday (-5,713) Bolivia
and Paraguay signed an agreement to end their 10 month border dispute.
15 September 1929, Sunday (-5,714) Murray
Gell-Mann, US physicist who researched sub-atomic particles, was born.
14 September 1929, Saturday (-5,715) Larry
Collins, writer, was born (died 20 June 2005)
12
September 1929, Thursday (-5,717) (1) (Aviation) AH
Orlebar, UK, set a new aviation speed record of 357.75 mph.
(2) �KLM airlines
now instituted a regular, fortnightly, service between Amsterdam and Jakarta.
The 9,500 mile route included 18 stops, including Istanbul, Baghdad, Karachi,
Calcutta (Kolkata) and Bangkok.
10 September 1929. Tuesday (-5,719) A
British seaplane reached a record speed of 355.8 mph.
9 September 1929. Monday (-5,720) Heavy
fighting between Russia and China on their border.
7
September 1929, Saturday (-5,722) Sonny
Rollins, US jazz saxophonist, was born in New York
5 September 1929. Thursday (-5,724) Aristide
Briand, the French Prime Minister, proposed a United States of Europe.
4 September 1929, Wednesday (-5,725)
The German airship Graf Zeppelin completed its 20-day round the world trip
from Friedrichshafen on the shore of lake Constance via Tokyo, Los Angeles, and
Lakehurst.
3 September 1929. Tuesday (-5,726) The
New York Stock Exchange reached a new high of 381.17.
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31
August 1929, Saturday (-5,729)
25 August 1929. Sunday (-5,735) Britain
declared martial law in Jerusalem as Arabs and Jews continued fighting. Arabs
killed 8 Jews and then burned whole streets of houses; the rioting was sparked
by Arab hostility to Jewish access to the Wailing Wall, situated in the heart
of Arab east Jerusalem. Order was not restored by the British until 31 August 1929.
24 August 1929, Saturday (-5,736) Yasser
Arafat, Palestinian leader, was born.
23 August 1929, Friday (-5,737)
Zoltan Czibor, Hungarian footballer, was born.
19
August 1929, Monday (-5,741)
Sergei Diaghilev, Russian impresario, died.
16
August 1929, Friday (-5,744)
Helmut Rahn, West German footballer, was born.
14
August 1929, Wednesday (-5,746) Gene
Scott, TV evangelist, was born (died 21 February 2005).
11 August 1929, Sunday (-5,749) Professor Alun Hoddinott, composer, was born.
10 August 1929, Saturday (-5,750) John Aldis, conductor, was born.
9 August 1929, Friday (-5,751) Jeff Butterfield, rugby player, was born.
8 August 1929, Thursday (-5,752)
Ronald Biggs, great train robber, was born in Lambeth, south London.
7 August 1929, Wednesday (-5,753) James Pilditch, designer, was born.
6 August 1929, Tuesday (-5,754) Britain and Egypt agreed a draft
treaty for the withdrawal of British troops from Egypt, except from the Canal
Zone.
5 August 1929, Monday (-5,755) Millicent Garrett Fawcett, British feminist
activist, died aged 82.
4 August 1929, Sunday (-5,756) Kishore Kumar, Indian actor, was
born.
3 August 1929, Saturday (-5,757) Emile Berliner, US inventor of the
flat phonographic record, died.
2 August 1929, Friday (-5,758) (Railways) The
first Trans-Australian Railway, N-S, was completed.
1 August 1929, Thursday (-5,759) Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer, died.
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31 July 1929, Wednesday (-5,760) World Boy Scouts jamboree opened
at Arrowe Park, Merseyside.
30 July 1929, Tuesday (-5,761) Christine McGuire, American singer, was
born.
29 July 1929, Monday (-5,762) Britain�s
Foreign Secretary, Arthur Henderson, had talks with his Soviet counterpart
about restoring Anglo-Soviet diplomatic relations.
28 July 1929, Sunday (-5,763) Jacqueline Onassis, widow of President
Kennedy, was born in Southampton, New York State, as Jacqueline Lee Bouvier.
27 July 1929, Saturday (-5,764) Jack Higgins, novelist, was born
26 July 1929, Friday (-5,765) Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian
pianist, was born in Sofia (died 2012)
25 July 1929. Thursday (-5,766) Pope Pius XI became the first Pope
for 59 years to leave the Vatican. The creation of the Papal state under the Lateran treaties had
clarified the politico-legal position of the Pope, who until then had been a
virtual prisoner within the Vatican.
24 July 1929, Wednesday
(-5,767) Peter Yates, film producer, was born
21
July 1929, Sunday (-5,770) The
Puymorens rail tunnel, France, 5.5 km long, opened.
17 July 1929. Wednesday (-5,774)
Russia broke off diplomatic relations with China and began to mobilise
troops on the border.
16 July 1929, Tuesday (-5,775) In Dublin, the Censorship of
Publications Act came into force, to control obscenity.
15 July 1929, Monday (-5,776) Hugo
von Hoffmannsthal, Austrian author, died aged 55.
14 July 1929, Sunday (-5,777) Sir
Walter Baldwin Spencer, anthropological writer, died.
12
July 1929, Friday (-5,779)
10 July 1929, Wednesday (-5,781) Charles
Kingsford Smith and his crew arrived in England having flown from Australia in
the record time of 12 days, 21 hours and 18 minutes.
9 July 1929, Tuesday (-5,782)
Gerhard Hanappi, Austrian footballer, was born.
8 July 1929, Monday (-5,783) Lord
Mark Carlisle of Bucklow, UK politician, was born (died 14 July 2005).
7 July 1929, Sunday (-5,784)
Transcontinental Air Transport Company began the first coast to coast air
service in the USA. The company soon became Trans World Airlines (TWA).
6
July 1929, Saturday (-5,785)
5 July 1929, Friday (-5,786) Tony
Lock, cricketer, was born (died 30 March 1995).
4 July 1929, Thursday (-5,787) In
London, 12 paintings of nudes by DH Lawrence were seized by police, after
complaints from the public.
3
July 1929, Wednesday (-5,788)
2 July 1929, Tuesday (-5,789) The
Giichi Tanaka Government in� Japan fell.
1 July 1929. Monday (-5,790) Britain
refused Leon Trotsky asylum.
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29
June 1929, Saturday (-5,792)
28 August 1929, Friday (-5,793)
Harold Evans, editor of the Times and Sunday Times, was born.
27 June 1929, Thursday (-5,794) In
Turkey, President Kemal outlawed Communist propaganda.
26 June 1929. Wednesday (-5,795)
The Japanese government signed the anti-war Kellogg-Briand pact, the last
government to sign it.
25
May 1929, Tuesday (-5,796)
24 June 1929, Monday (-5,797) Sybil
Queenie Newall, archery champion, died.
23 June 1929, Sunday (-5,798) June
Carter Cash, singer, was born.
22 June 1929. Saturday (-5,799) Bruce
Kent, campaigner for nuclear disarmament, was born.
21 June 1929, Friday (-5,800) A
US-brokered peace deal ended the Cristero war in Mexico.
16
June 1929, Sunday (-5,805) Bramwell
Booth, second General of the Salvation Army, died.
14
June 1929, Friday (-5,807) Journalist
Arthur Schrieber became the first stowaway on na transatlantic flight.
12
June 1929. Wednesday (-5,809)
Birth of Anne Frank, Dutch Jewish schoolgirl who wrote her famous dairies
before going to her death in a Nazi concentration camp.
10
June 1929, Monday (-5,811) Margaret
Bondfield became the first British woman Cabinet Minister when she was
appointed Minister of Labour.
8 June 1929. Saturday (-5,813) At
The Hague, Germany�s war debts were rescheduled. Germany was no longer required
to pay for the reconstruction of France�s war-damaged provinces. The Young
Plan, named after its American author Owen Young, removed controls on the
German economy. However Germany must still repay �1.65 billion over the next 40
years, including �2 million a year that Britain insists upon to cover its
American debt. Militant Germans, including the Nazis, demonstrated against these payments. The Plan was intended
to strengthen the position of the Weimar Government but instead undermined it
further.
7 June 1929. Friday (-5,814) The
Papal State, extinct since 1870, was revived as the Vatican City State in Rome
under the Lateran Treaty.
6 June 1929, Thursday (-5,815)
Sunil Dutt, actor, was born.
4
June 1929, Tuesday (-5,817)
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31 May 1929, Friday (-5,821) The Ford Motor Company signed an agreement
with the USSR to produce cars there. The USSR wanted to create jobs in the
automotive industry, and Henry Ford believed that he could undermine Communism
by introducing capitalism there. The first Ford cars assembled in the USSR were
only completed in 1932.
30 May 1929. Thursday (-5,822) UK
General Election. Labour secured its first Parliamentary majority � see 22
January 1924. The Labour Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, running Britain�s second Labour government,
appointed Margaret Bondfield as Britain�s first woman minister. She was
Minister of Labour, a key post, given the lengthening dole queues Britain
faced. Labour won 288 seats, the Conservatives 260.
28
May 1929, Tuesday
(-5,824) Edward Seaga, Jamaican Prime Minister, was born.
26 May 1929, Sunday (-5,826)
Bodewalte J Lampe, composer, died in New York (born in Ribe, Denmark, 8
November 1869)
25 May 1929, Saturday
(-5,827) Beverly Sills, soprano singer, was born.
24
May 1929, Friday
(-5,828)
22 May 1929, Wednesday
(-5,830) In Italy, Mussolini banned beauty contests as immoral.
21 May 1929, Tuesday (-5,831) (1) Lord Roseberry, British Liberal Prime
Minister, died.
(2) King Alexander I of Yugoslavia used his dictatorial
powers to ban the Croat Party and other political factions.
20 May 1929, Monday (-5,832) Under
pressure from boycotts and foreign disapproval, Japan began evacuating the
Shandong Peninsula, China.
19
May 1929, Sunday (-5,833)
17 May 1929, Friday (-5,835)
Branislav Zebec, Yugoslav footballer, was born.
16 May 1929, Thursday (-5,836) The
first Academy Awards were presented in Hollywood, by the Academy�s President,
Douglas Fairbanks.
15
May 1929, Wednesday (-5,837)
14 May 1929, Tuesday (-5,838)
Henry McGee, actor, was born (died 28 January 2006)
13 May 1929, Monday (-5,839) Burt
Bacharach, composer, was born,
7
May 1929, Tuesday (-5,845)
5 May 1929.
Sunday (-5,847) In Bombay a curfew was imposed to quell
Hindu-Moslem fighting.
4 May 1929, Saturday
(-5,848) Audrey Hepburn, actress, was born.
3 May 1929.
Friday (-5,849) Severe civil unrest in
Berlin.
2 May 1929, Thursday
(-5,850) Fred Lincoln Wray, rock guitarist, was born (died 5 November 2005)
1 May 1929,
Wednesday (-5,851) Communists in Berlin
attacked policemen. Three days of clashes ensued, with 15 dead.
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30 April 1929,
Tuesday (-5,852) Ernst Streeruwitz was
appointed Chancellor of Austria.
29 April 1929,
Monday (-5,853) The future Liberal
Party leader, Jeremy Thorpe, was
born.
26 April 1929.
Friday (-5,856) The first non-stop
flight from England to India of 4,130 miles in 50 hours 37 minutes was made by
two RAF officers. They were Squadron leader A G Jones-Williams and Flight
Lieutenant N H Jenkins.
24 April 1929,
Wednesday (-5,858) Denmark elected a
socialist government.
23 April 1929, Tuesday
(-5,859) Professor George Steiner, author, was born.
22 April 1929,
Monday (-5,860) Britain�s
first municipal airport opened, at Chat Moss, Manchester.
20 April 1929.
Saturday (-5,862) The first Italian Parliament composed
exclusively of Fascists led by Benito Mussolini was opened by King Victor
Emmanuel III.
17
April 1929, Wednesday
(-5,865) James Last, composer, was born.
15 April 1929,
Monday (-5,867)
Chancellor Winston Churchill, in his budget, abolished the 325-year-old tea
duty, knocking 4d off the price of a pound of tea.
14 April 1929.
Sunday (-5,868) (1) The first air mail from India arrived at
Croydon.
(2)
The Monte Carlo Grand Prix was run for the first time, 76 laps round the narrow
streets and harbour of Monte Carlo.
12 April 1929,
Friday (-5,870)
11 April 1929.
Thursday (-5,871) (1)
Germany refused asylum to Leon Trotsky.
(2)
Popeye the cartoon character
first appeared in a comic strip in a New York newspaper.
10 April 1929,
Wednesday (-5,872) Michael Hawthorn, motor
racing champion, was born (died 27 January 1959).
8
April 1929, Monday
(-5,874) Jacques Brel, Belgian composer, was born in Brussels (died
9/10.1978 in Bobigny, Paris).
6 April 1929, Saturday
(-5,876) Willis Hall, playwright, was born (died 7 March 2005).
5 April 1929,
Friday (-5,877) (Science)
Ivar Glaever, Norwegian-US physicist, was born in Bergan, Norway. In 1973 he
was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on superconductors and semiconductors.
4 April 1929.
Thursday (-5,878) The engineer Carl Benz, who built the first
internal combustion car, died aged 84.
3
April 1929, Wednesday
(+5,879)
2 April 1929,
Tuesday (-5,880)
Catherine Gaskin, author, was born.
1 April 1929, Monday
(-5,881) Milan Kundera, writer, was bron.
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31 March 1929,
Sunday (-5,882) Easter Sunday.
30 March 1929, Saturday (-5,883) The first commercial air
service between London and Karachi began.
29 March 1929, Friday (-5,884)
Lennart Meri, President of Estonia, was born (died 28 March 2006)
27
March 1929, Wednesday (-5,886)
25 March 1929, Monday (-5,888) Tim
Brookshaw, champion jockey, was born (died 8 November 1981).
24 March 1929.
Sunday (-5,889) Mussolini�s single party Fascist state
claimed it had won 99% of the vote in elections.
23 March 1929,
Saturday (-5,890) Roger Bannister, the first man to run
a mile in under 4 minutes (3 minutes, 59.4 seconds), was born in Harrow,
London.
22
March 1929, Friday
(-5,891)
21 March 1929, Thursday
(-5,892) First performance in London of Ralph Vaughan William�s opera Sir John in Love, based on Shakespeare�s
play The Merry Wives of Windsor.
20 March 1929.
Wednesday (-5,893) The French military
commander Marshal Ferdinand Foch died aged 68.
17 March 1929,
Sunday (-5,896) The Spanish Government closed Madrid
University because of student political agitation.
15
March 1929, Friday
(-5,898) Clarence (Pine Top) Smith, US jazz pianist, was born in Troy,
Alabama.
11 March 1929.
Monday (-5,902) Major H O D Seagrave
reached 231.36 mph in his racing car at Daytona Beach.
10 March 1929.
Sunday (-5,903) Egyptian women were granted limited
rights of divorce.
8
March 1929, Friday
(-5,905)
6 March 1929,
Wednesday (-5,907) David Sheppard, cricketer,
was born.
5 March 1929, Tuesday
(-5,908) David Buick, founder of the Buick motor company, died.
4 March 1929.
Monday (-5,909) Herbert Hoover was inaugurated as the President of the USA.
3 March 1929,
Sunday (-5,910)
Streatham to Wimbledon via Haydons Lane, was electrified
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27 February 1929,
Wednesday (-5,914) Patricia Ward, tennis
player, was born (died 22 June 1985).
25 February 1929, Monday
(-5,916) All Embassy staff had now evacuated Afghanistan as the situation
grew more tense.
24 February 1929, Sunday (-5,917)
Andre Messager, French composer, died in Paris (born 30 December 1853 in
Montlucon)
21 February 1929.
Thursday (-5,920) France refused asylum
to Leon Trotsky, Stalin�s most feared opponent, now exiled from the USSR.
18 February 1929,
Monday (-5,,923)
The First Academy Awards, known as Oscars from 1931, were announced.
17 February 1929,
Sunday (-5,924) The first in-flight movie was shown, on an
internal flight in the USA.
16 February 1929,
Saturday (-5,925) The
New York Stock Exchange posted widespread losses after the Federal Reserve
Advisory Council's warning about speculators the previous day.
15 February 1929.
Friday (-5,926) German unemployment was
over 3 million. In 1926 it
had been 2 million, falling to around 1.3 million in 1927 and 1928.
14 February 1929.
Thursday (-5,927) The St Valentine�s Day Massacre took place in Chicago. Seven members of
Bugsy Moran�s gang were machine-gunned to death by a rival gang.
13 February 1929, Wednesday
(-5,928) The US expanded its Navy. Congress passed the Cruiser Act,
authorising 15 new cruisers and 1 new aircraft carrier.
12 February 1929, Tuesday
(-5,929) Lillie Langtry, US actress, died.
11 February 1929.
Monday (-5,930) The 109 acres of the Vatican in Rome were made an independent state under
the Lateran Treaty, which was signed by Benito Mussolini and
Pietro Gasparri, Pope Pius XI.
10 February 1929, Sunday (-5,931)
Jerry Goldsmith, US composer, was born in Los Angeles.
9
February 1929, Saturday
(-5,932)
7 February 1929, Thursday
(-5,934) Hindu-Muslim riots in Bengal.
6 February 1929,
Wednesday (-5,935) Germany ratified the
Kellogg-Briand anti-war pact.
5 February 1929,
Tuesday (-5,936) �amon de Valera was arrested
for entering Northern Ireland.
4 February 1929,
Monday (-5,937) The first Green Belt
area was approved, a five-mile wide strip near Hendon.
3 February 1929,
Sunday (-5,938) Val Doonican, singer, was born.
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31 January 1929.
Thursday (-5,941) Leon Trotsky was
expelled from Russia by Stalin.
He found asylum in Mexico.
29 January 1929, Tuesday
(-5,943) General Motors car company purchased Opel.
28 January 1929, Monday
(-5,944) Acker Bilk, British clarinettist, was born in Pensford, Somerset.
27 January 1929, Sunday (-5,945) Mohamed
al Fayed, owner of Harrods, was born.
25
January 1929, Friday (-5,947)
24 January 1929,
Thursday (-5,948) Wilfred Baddeley, tennis
player, died.
23 January 1929, Wednesday
(-5,949) Jeanne Moreau, actress, was born.
20
January 1929, Sunday (-5,952)
In Old Arizona, the first full-length
talking ,movie filmed outdoors, was released.
17 January 1929, Thursday
(-5,955) The cartoon character Popeye
the Sailor Man, created by Elzie Crisler Segar, first appeared in the comic
strip Thimble Theatre.
16 January 1929, Wednesday
(-5,956) In Russia, Comintern Chief Bukharin was forced from office.
15 January 1929,
Tuesday (-5,957) (1) US
civil rights leader Martin Luther King
was born in Atlanta, Georgia, son of a Baptist pastor.
(2)
The USA ratified the Kellogg-Briand anti-war pact.
14 January 1929,
Monday (-5.958) Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan, facing revolt, abdicated and left the
throne to his brother Anayatullah
Khan. However Anayatullah was a weak
ruler, and fled the country on 22 May 1929, amidst general civil war.
13 January 1929,
Sunday (-5,959) Wyatt Earp, American lawman and hero of the OK
Corral, died peacefully aged 81.
12 January 1929,
Saturday (-5,960) The Cascade Tunnel, USA, 12 km, long, was
opened.
11 January 1929,
Friday (-5,961)
10 January 1929,
Thursday (-5,962) (Newspapers) Tin Tin first appeared in Le Vingtieme Siecle, Belgium.
9 January 1929,
Wednesday (-5,963)
(Medical) Fleming treated his assistant Stuart
Craddock for an infection by washing it out with a penicillin solution; this
cleared the infection.
6 January 1929,
Sunday (-5,966) (Yugoslavia)
King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (born 1888, ruled 1921-34) became dictator.
1 January 1929. Tuesday
(-5,971) (1) In the UK,
there were now 3.6 telephones per 100 people.
(2)
The Polish airline, LOT was founded.
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31 December 1928, Monday (-5,972)
Ross Barbour, US musician, was born.
30 December 1928, Sunday (-5,973)
Bo Diddley, US rock singer, was born in McComb, Missouri.
23
December 1928, Sunday (-5,980)
An evacuation of all women and children from foreign Legations in Kabul began
as unrest intensified.
20 December 1928.
Thursday (-5,983) (1) Harry
Ramsden started his first fish and chip restaurant in a hut near Bradford, West
Yorkshire, which soon became the most famous in the world.
(2)
The UK recognised the Kuomintang government of China.
18 December 1928, Tuesday
(-5,985) Galt McDermot, Canadian composer, was born in Montreal
17 December 1928, Monday
(-5,986) Jean Cherry Drummond, writer, was born (died 11 March 2005).
14
December 1928, Friday
(-5,989)
12 December 1928,
Wednesday (-5,991) In Romania, the Peasant�s
Party won elections.
11 December 1928,
Tuesday (-5,992)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian author, was born.
10 December 1928,
Monday (-5,993)
In London, the new Underground Station at Piccadilly Circus opened.
9
December 1928, Sunday (-5,994)
7 December 1928,
Friday (-5,996) Noam Chomsky, US social
scientist, was born.
6 December 1928, Thursday
(-5,997) Border clashed between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Chaco region
began.
5 December 1928,
Wednesday (-5,998) Wilhelm Miklas was elected
President of Austria, succeeding Michael Hainish.
3
December 1928, Monday
(-6,000) Andy Williams, US singer, was born in Wall Lake, Iowa.
1 December 1928,
Saturday (-6,002) Arthur Gore, tennis champion, died (born 2
January 1868).
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30 November 1928, Friday
(-6,003) Emilio Portes Gil was sworn in as President of Mexico.
29 November 1928,
Thursday (-6,004) In Britain the Government was concerned at
the rising toll of road accidents. In 1927 there were 133,943 accidents and
5,329 deaths on Britain�s roads. The number of private cars was just 200,000 in
1920 but forecast to reach one million by 1930. However anyone aged 17 could
drive with no more than a self-certification of physical fitness. The speed
limit of 20 mph was widely ignored. Motoring
had been the preserve of the wealthy but the Austin Seven car, introduced in
1921, cost just �225, within the reach of many people.
28
November 1928, Wednesday
(-6,005)
27 November 1928,
Tuesday (-6,006) John Conroy, hockey player,
was born (died 9 November 1985).
26 November 1928, Monday (-6,007) (1) The first twins
to be born by Caesarean section in Britain were delivered in Manchester.
(2)
(Food) Otto
Rohwedder patented a bread slicing machine, He first began work on this concept
in 1912; bakers responded that sliced bread would quickly go stale, and slices
could be stolen. Therefore a wrapping was necessary. Rohwedder suffered various
setbacks including serious illness and a fire in 1917 that destroyed his work.
He only secured financial backing for his work in 1922.
25
November 1928, Sunday (-6,008)
23 November 1928,
Friday (-6,010)
Jerry Bock, US composer, was born in New Haven, Connecticut.
22 November 1928,
Thursday (-6,011) In Britain, the ten shilling and one pound notes went into circulation,
21 November 1928,
Wednesday (-6,012) Hermann Sudermann, German
author, died.
20 November 1928,
Tuesday (-6,013) John Disley, athlete, was
born.
19 November 1928,
Monday (-6,014)
18 November 1928,
Sunday (-6,015) Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer, was born in
Tbilisi (died 1994)
17 November 1928,
Saturday (-6,016)
Lala Rajpat Raj, Indian politician, died.
16 November 1928,
Friday (-6,017) Dick Gamble, ice hockey
player, was born in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada (died 2018)
15 November 1928,
Thursday (-6,018) Emmanuel Mercer, horse
racing champion, was born (died 26 September 1959).
12 November 1928,
Monday (-6,021) Grace Kelly, US actress, was
born (died 1982)
10 November 1928,
Saturday (-6,023) Hirohito was enthroned as the 124th Emperor
of Japan, continuing a line dating back to 660 BCE. He ruled until his death in
1989, aged 87.
9 November 1928, Friday
(-6,024) Anne Sexton, poet, was born.
8
November 1928, Thursday
(-6,025)
7 November 1928,
Wednesday (-6,026) Bob McIntyre, motorcycle
racer, was born.
6 November 1928.
Tuesday (-6,027) Herbert Hoover, Republican, was elected 31st
President of the USA.
5 November 1928.
Monday (-6,028) Mount Etna erupted.
4 November 1928,
Sunday (-6,029) The Nicaraguan general election was held; Jos�
Mar�a Moncada was elected president.
3 November 1928.
Saturday (-6,030) Turkey abolished the use of the Arabic script and adopted the Roman
alphabet.
2 November 1928, Friday
(-6,031) Paul Johnson, writer, was born
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30 October 1928,
Tuesday (-6,034)
(1) The Col de Braus rail tunnel, France, 6
km long, opened.
(2)
Static pictures were first transmitted by radio. Receivers required a special
device called a Fultograph, attached to the radio set. This utilised a
revolving drum upon which a stylus marked half-tone lines on special paper. The
result was about as good as a mediocre picture in an underfunded local
newspaper, and the device never became popular.
28 October 1928,
Sunday (-6,036) Lawrence Reilly, footballer, was born.
27 October 1928, Saturday
(-6,037) Cleo Laine, British singer, was born in Southall, near London
25
October 1928, Thursday
(-6,039) Marion Ross, actress, was born.
15 October 1928.
Monday (-6,049) The German airship Graf
Zeppelin, captained by Hugo Eckener, completed its first transatlantic
flight.� It flew from Friedrichshafen,
Germany, to Lakehurst in New York.
14 October 1928, Sunday (-6,050)
Jose hector Rial, Argentinean footballer, was born.
13
October 1928, Saturday
(-6,051)
12 October 1928.
Friday (-6,052) The first iron lung was
used at the Boston Children�s Hospital, Massachusetts.
11 October 1928,
Thursday (-6,053) The LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin
departed Friedrichshafen with 20 passengers and 40 crew, bound for the United
States.
10 October 1928.
Wednesday (-6,054) The King and Queen
opened the new Tyne road bridge.
8 October 1928,
Monday (-6,056) John Brockway, champion
swimmer, was born.
6 October 1928.
Saturday (-6,058) Chiang Kai-Shek became President of Nationalist China.
3
October 1928, Wednesday
(-6,061) Shridrath Ramphal, Secretary General of the Commonwealth, was born
1 October 1928.
Monday (-6,063) Stalin�s first Five Year Plan began. The idea was for rapid industrialisation of the USSR, especially in coal,
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to rise sharply. Agriculture was to be
collectivised, which meant disempowering the wealthy rural peasantry, or Kulaks.
On 5 January 1930 Stalin sent thousands of government agents to the Russian
countryside to persuade the Kulaks to join the new collectives. Under Stalin�s
scheme, every poor farmer who turned his land over to the collective would be
allowed to own a house, stable, garden, and one car, and to keep the income
from any sales of garden vegetables.
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23 September 1928, Sunday (-6,071) Frank Foster, saxophonist, was
born.
22 September 1928, Saturday (-6,072) Donald Cockell, boxer, was born in
Battersea, London (died 18 July 1983).
21 September 1928, Friday (-6,073)
20 September 1928, Thursday (-6,074)
In Rome the supreme legislative body, the Chamber of Deputies, was taken over
by the Fascists.
19 September 1928.
Wednesday (-6,075) The first cartoon
talking picture, Walt Disney�s Steamboat
Willie, with Mickey Mouse (originally called Mortimer Mouse), was shown in
New York.
18 September 1928,
Tuesday (-6,076)
The airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin entered service.
17 September 1928,
Monday (-6,077) A hurricane hit Lake
Okeechobee, Florida, USA drowning some 2,000 people.
16 September 1928,� Sunday (-6,078) In Glasgow the P&O liner
Viceroy of India was launched; she was the first to have oil-fired electric
turbines.
15 September 1928. Saturday (-6,079) Alexander Fleming reported the discovery of
penicillin.
14 September 1928,
Friday (-6,080)
Italo Svevo, writer, died.
13
September 1928, Thursday
(-6,081)
12 September 1928, Wednesday
(-6,082) Howard Talbot, British composer, died in Reigate, Surrey (born 9
March 1865 in Yonkers, New York)
11 September 1928,
Tuesday (-6,083)
In New York the world�s first television drama was broadcast. It was a 40
minute two-character play called The
Queen�s Messenger.
9 September 1928,
Sunday (-6,085) Mavis Steele, bowls champion, was born.
6
September 1928, Thursday
(+6,088) Maura Murphy, author, was born (died 5 October 2005)
2 September 1928, Sunday (-6,092)
Horace Silver, US jazz pianist, was born in Norwalk, Connecticut.
1 September 1928.
Saturday (-6,093) Zogu was proclaimed King Zog I of
Albania.
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31 August 1928, Friday
(-6,094) First performance in Berlin of the opera Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny
Opera), with music by Kurt Weill, adapting John Gay�s The Beggar�s Opera (1728)
to the setting of 1920s Soho, London.
29
August 1928, Wednesday (-6,096)
28 August 1928,
Tuesday (-6,097)
(1) In Britain the Dangerous Drugs Act
(1925) was amended to make the use of cannabis illegal.
(2)
The Benguela Railway opened in Angola, for copper exports.
27 August 1928.
Monday (-6,098) In
Paris, 15 nations signed
the Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war. The USSR signed the pact on 6
September 1928.
26 August 1928,
Sunday (-6,099) Actress Barbara Stanwyck and vaudeville
comedian Frank Fay were married in St. Louis.
25 August 1928, Saturday (-6,100)
Anfield�s famous Kop terrace at Liverpool football ground opened.� It was probably named after the Battle of
Spion Kop in the Boer War (1899-1902); �kopje� means �small hill�.
24 August 1928, Friday (-6,101) Tommy
Docherty, football manager, was born.
23
August 1928, Thursday (-6,102)
22 August 1928, Wednesday (-6,103) Karlheinz
Stockhausen, composer, was born
21 August 1928, Tuesday (-6,104)
Christopher Brasher, athletics champion, was born in Guyana.
19
August 1928, Sunday (-6,106) (1) Greek
elections produced a victory for the Liberals under Venizelos.
(2) Lord Haldane,
who founded the Territorial Army in 1908, died in London.
16
August 1928, Thursday (-6,109)
Sheila Lerwill, athlete (high jump) was born.
14
August 1928. Tuesday (-6,111) (1) The world�s first scheduled television
programmes were broadcast by WRNY in New York.
(2) The world�s first coach service to have sleeping
bunks began, between London and Liverpool.
12 August 1928, Sunday (-6,113) Leos
Janacek, Czech composer, died aged 74.
11 August 1928, Saturday (-6,114) Arthur
J Lamb, US actor, died (born 12 August 1870)
10 August 1928, Friday (-6,115) British cigarette smoking was
rising fast. In 1924 the country consumed 77,458,000 lbs of tobacco, up from 23,766,000
lbs in 1907, according to figures from the Imperial economic Committee. In 1927
Britons consumed 3.4 lbs of tobacco per head. All the increase was from
cigarettes; pipe smoking and cigars have declined. Cigarette sales were boosted
by marketing techniques such as free cards, and cigarette smoking had become a
powerful symbol of female emancipation. Younger females also saw the habit as
romantic. However some doctors were concerned about links to the rise in
various cancers.
8
August 1928, Wednesday (-6,117)
Peter Keenan, boxer, was born in Glasgow.
6
August 1928, Monday (-6,119) Andy Warhol, US artist, was
born.
2 August 1928, Thursday (-6,123)
Italy signed a 20 year treaty of friendship with Ethiopia.
1 August 1928, Wednesday (-6,124) The Morris Minor car was
launched.
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31
July 1928, Tuesday (-6,125)
28 July 1928, Saturday (-6,128) The 9th Olympic Games
opened in Amsterdam.
27 July 1928, Friday (-6,129) Sakari Mononen, Finnish composer, was born
in Korpiselka (died 1997)
26 July 1928, Thursday (-6,130) Stanley Kubrick, US film director, was
born (died 1999).
25 July 1928, Wednesday (-6,131) Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor; was
born in Pagsanjan (died 1988)
24 July 1929, Tuesday (-6,132) Oriana Fallaci, journalist, was born.
23 July 1928, Monday (-6,133) (Astronomy)
Vera C Rubin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1973, with W Kent, she
established that the Milky Way has a proper motion of around 500 km / second
relative to distant galaxies.
22 July 1928. Sunday (-6,134) Japan severed all relations with China.
21 July 1928, Saturday (-6,135) Ellen Terry, British actress, died.
20 July 1928, Friday (-6,136) A government decree in Hungary
ordered the country's Romani people to integrate with the general population in
dress and language and live in fixed abodes.
19 July 1928, Thursday (-6,137) China annulled the �unequal treaties�
formerly made with European powers.
18 July 1928, Wednesday (-6,138) (Rail
Tunnels) The Somport Tunnel, 7,874 metres long, opened between France
and Spain.
17 July 1928, Tuesday (-6,139) Alvaro Obregon, newly-elected President of
Mexico, was assassinated before taking office. Congress appointed Emilio Portes
Gil as successor.
16 July 1928, Monday (-6,140) Robert Sheckley, science fiction writer, was
born (died 9 December 2005)
15 July 1928, Sunday (-6,141) Jimmy Leadbetter, footballer, was born (died
18 July 2006)
14 July 1928, Saturday (-6,142) Moira Redmond, actress, was born (died 16
March 2006)
13 July 1928, Friday (-6,143) Leroy Vinnegar, jazz bassist, was born in
Indianapolis, Indiana (died 1999)
12 July 1928, Thursday (-6,144) Sir Alistair Burnet, newsreader, was born.
10
July 1928, Tuesday (-6,146)
7 July 1928, Saturday (+6,149) Sliced bread was first produced.
6 July 1928, Friday (-6,150) The
first all-talking feature film, Lights of New York, was presented at The
Sound Theatre, New York.
5
July 1928, Thursday (-6,151)
4 July 1928, Wednesday (-6,152)
Giampiero Boniperti, Italian footballer, was born.
3 July 1928. Tuesday (-6,153) (1) In
Greece, Eleutherios Venizelos was again appointed Prime Minister, following his
return in March.
(2) The first
TV sets went on sale in the USA, at $75 each. John Logie Baird made the first
colour TV transmission, from the Baird Studios, London.
2 July 1928, Monday
(-6,154) In Britain women aged 21 and over got the vote, equalising the age
of suffrage with men. This had not happened on 6 February 1918 as women, after
the First World War, outnumbered men and there were fears that a specifically
women�s Party would emerge and dominate politics. By 1928 it was clear that
this would not happen.
1 July 1928, Sunday (-6,155) Alvaro
Obregon was elected President of Mexico.
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30
June 1928, Saturday (-6,156)
28 June 1928, Thursday (-6,158) In
Germany, Hermann Muller, Social Democrat, was appointed Chancellor following
the resignation of Wilhelm Marx on 13 June 1928.
27 June 1928, Wednesday (-6,159) In
Poland, after elections, Kazimierz Bartel replaced Pilsudski as Prime Minister.
However Pilsudski remained Minister of Defence.
26
June 1928, Tuesday (-6,160)
25 June 1928, Monday (-6,161) Bill
Russo, Us composer, was born in Chicago
24 June 1928, Sunday (-6,162) France
devalued the Franc against the US Dollar.
22
June 1928, Friday (-6,164)
20 June 1928, Wednesday (-6,166) During a heated debate in the Yugoslav
Parliament, a Serb deputy pulled a gun and shot dead three Croat members,
including the opposition leader. Shortly afterwards, the King of Yugoslavia
declared a �royal dictatorship�, superseding Parliament.
19 June 1928, Tuesday (-6,167) The Earl of Minto was born.
18 June 1928. Monday (-6,168) (1) Roald
Amundsen, Norwegian explorer who was the first to reach the South Pole in 1911,
was lost in the North Sea after a flying accident..
(2) American aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly the Atlantic. She
and her two male companions landed safely in Wales.
17 June 1926, Sunday (-6,169) The Seventh Street Bridge (now the Andy Warhol
Bridge) opened in Pittsburgh.
16 June 1928, Saturday (-6,170) (Arctic) Arctic
Norwegian explorer Roald Engelbregt Amundsen died in a plane crash whilst
searching for shipwreck victims.
15 June 1928. Friday (-6,171) A race between a train and a plane
from London to Edinburgh was won by the train, the �Flying Scotsman�.
14 June 1928. Thursday (-6,172) (1) Birth
of the Argentine revolutionary, Che Guevara, at Rosario, Argentina.
(2) Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragette, born 13 February 1858,
died.
13 June 1928, Wednesday (-6,173) In Germany, Chancellor Wilhelm Marx
resigned.
12 June 1928, Tuesday (-6,174) Vic Damone, US singer, was born in
Brooklyn, New York.
11 June 1928, Monday (-6,175) Alan Paterson, athletics (high jump), was
born.
10 June 1928, Sunday (-6,176) Maurice Sendak, writer, was born.
9 June 1928, Saturday (-6,177) Bob Bolling, US� writer, was born in Brockton, Massachusetts
8 June 1928, Friday (-6,178) (1)
Charles Kingsford-Smith and Captain Ulm completed the first flight across the
Pacific, landing at Brisbane, Australia.�
They had taken off from Oakland, California, and flew via Hawaii and
Fiji in their plane, the Southern Cross.
(2)
Beijing fell to Nationalist forces under Chiang Kai Shek, ending the Chinese
civil war.
7 June 1928, Thursday (-6,179) Ken (Robert) McKinlay, speedway champion,
was born.
4
June 1928, Monday
(-6,182) Marshal Chang was killed when his train was mined. The assassination
was done by Japanese Kwantung Army staff who wanted to secure Manchuria for
Japan.
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29 May 1928.
Tuesday (-6,188) In the USA, the
Chrysler and Dodge motor companies merged.
27
May 1928, Sunday (-6,190)
Thea Musgrave, composer, was born.
25 May 1928, Friday
(-6,192) Possible birth date of Pol Pot, dictator of Cambodia from 1975.
This is the date according to French colonial records; his family insisted his
birth year was 1925. He was born as Saloth Sar, to a Khmer farmer in the
village of Prek Sbauv, close to the provincial capital of Kompong Thom
24 May 1928, Thursday
(-6,193) William Trevor, novelist,, was born.
23 May 1928, Wednesday
(-6,194) Rosemary Clooney, US singer, was born in Maysville, Kentucky.
22
May 1928, Tuesday
(-6,195)
21 May 1928.
Monday (-6,196) In Italy, Catholics
were told to disassociate themselves from Fascism.
20 May 1928,
Sunday (-6,197) In Germany, Socialists won the
elections. The result was, Social Democrats rose from 131 seats to 153, to
become the largest party but without an overall majority. Centre Party, 62
seats. Communists, 54 seats. German National People�s Party, 73 seats. German
People�s Party, 45 seats. Nazis, 12 seats.
17
May 1928, Thursday
(-6,200)
15 May 1928.
Tuesday (-6,202) Australia began the
flying doctor service. It began at Cloncurry, Queensland; the first doctor was
Dr Vincent Welsh.
12 May 1928.
Saturday (-6,205) The Italian electorate was reduced
from 10 million to 3 million, under Mussolini. Now
only men who paid taxes of 100 lira or more could vote, and women had no vote
at all.
8 May 1929, Tuesday
(-6,209) Norway formally annexed Jan Mayen island.
7 May 1928.
Monday (-6,210) In Britain, women aged
between 21 and 30 won equal suffrage in elections. This was known as the
�flapper�s vote�. The women�s voting age in Britain had previously been 30.
5
May 1929, Saturday
(-6,212)
4 May 1928, Friday (-6,213) Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak was born.
3 May 1928, Thursday (-6,214) Chinese Nationalist forces suffered
major losses against the Japanese.
2 May 1928.
Wednesday (-6,215) Croydon Airport officially opened.
1 May 1928.
Tuesday (-6,216) Ebenezer Howard, founder of the New
Towns movement, knighted in 1927, of Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City, died in
the latter town.
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30 April 1928, Monday (-6,217) Charles Lindbergh flew the
Spirit of St. Louis one last time, to Washington, D.C., so that it could be
placed on permanent exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution
29
April 1928, Sunday (-6,218)
Professor Heinz Wolff, bioengineer, was born.
28 April 1928, Saturday (-6,219) Yves Klein, painter, was born.
27 April 1928. Friday (-6,220) The Piccadilly Theatre, London,
opened.
26 April 1928, Thursday
(-6,221) Madame Tussauds waxworks museum
re-opened on Marylebone Road, after its previous address in Baker Street burnt
down.
25 April 1928, Wednesday (-6,222) Cy Twombly, US-Italian painter and
sculptor, was born.
24 April 1928, Tuesday (-6,223) Thomas Docherty, footballer, was born.
23 April 1928, Monday (-6,224) Okke Jager, Dutch theological writer, was
born.
22 April 1928.
Sunday (-6,225) (1) In French elections Right-wing Parties won
325 out of the 610 seats.
(2) Earthquake
in Corinth left 50,000 homeless.
21 April 1928, Saturday (-6,226) Jack Evans, Welsh-Canadian ice hockey
player, was born.
20 April 1928, Friday (-6,227) Archaeologist Gerard Stanley Hawkins was
born in Norfolk, England,
19 April 1928.
Thursday (-6,228) The Japanese occupied
Shantung, China.
18
April 1928. Wednesday (-6,229)
Ken Colyer, British jazz trumpeter, was born in
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (died in France, 11 March 1988).
16
April 1928, Monday
(-6,231) The Somerset Women�s Bowling Association was formed.
10 April 1928,
Tuesday (-6,237) English writer Stanley John
Weyman died, aged 72.
9 April 1928.
Monday (-6,238) Turkey abolished Islam as the State religion.
8 April 1928,
Sunday (-6,239) Easter Sunday.
7 April 1928,
Saturday (-6,240) (China)
Chinese Nationalists launched an offensive to capture Beijing.
6 April 1928,
Friday (-6,241) In Italy, handshaking
was banned as it was deemed unhygienic.
4
April 1928, Wednesday
(-6,243) Maya Angelou, author, was born.
3 April 1928,
Tuesday (-6,244)
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31 March 1928,
Saturday (-6,247) (Switzerland) Gustave
Ador, Swiss statesman (born 23 December 1845) died.
30 March 1928,
Friday (-6,248) (Aviation)
M de Bernardi, Italy, set a new aviation speed record of 318.64 mph.
29
March 1928, Thursday
(-6,249)
28 March 1928.
Wednesday (-6,250) France shortened its
term of compulsory military service to one year.
27 March 1928, Tuesday
(-6,251) Leslie Stewart, British composer, died in Richmond, Surrey (born
15 March 1864 in Southport, Lancashire)
26
March 1928, Monday
(-6,252)
25 March 1928,
Sunday (-6,253) (1) James
Lovell, American astronaut, was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
(2)
The Purley to Caterham railway was electrified.
24 March 1928,
Saturday (-6,254) Lloyds Building, Leadenhall Street, London,
was opened by King George V.
22/
March 1928, Thursday
(-6,256)
20 March 1928, Tuesday
(-6,258) James Packard, founder of the Packard car company, died.
19 March 1928,
Monday (-6,259) In Britain, the Revised
Book of Common Prayer was published.
17
March 1924, Saturday
(-6,261)
16 March 1928,
Friday (-6,262) In Egypt, the Nationalist
leader Nahas Pasha became Prime Minister.
15 March 1928, Thursday
(-6,263) Bob Wilber, US musician, was born in New York
14
March 1928, Wednesday
(-6,264)
13 March 1928,
Tuesday (-6,265) In Los Angeles, 450
died when a dam burst.
12 March 1928,
Monday (-6,266) US playwright Edward Albee was
born (died 2016).
10
March 1928, Saturday
(-6,268) In the Soviet Union, show trials of �bourgeois� engineers accused
of sabotage began.
8
March 1928, Thursday
(-6,270)
6
March 1928, Tuesday
(-6,272) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, writer, was born
4 March 1928, Sunday (-6,274)
Allan Sillitoe, writer, was born.
3 March 1928, Saturday
(-6,275) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, writer, was born.
1
March 1928, Thursday
(-6,277) Vitamin F was discovered by US scientist Dr Herbert Evans.
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27 February 1928,
Monday (-6,280) The Moffat rail tunnel, USA,
9.997 km long, opened on the Denver-Glenwood Springs line.
26 February 1928, Sunday (-6,281)
Fats Domino, US pianist, was born.
24
February 1928, Friday (-6,283)
23 February 1928, Thursday
(-6,284) Vasili Lazaref, cosmonaut, was born.
22 February 1928.
Wednesday (-6,285) Mr Bert Hinkler
arrived in Port Darwin, having set a record time for the flight from England,
15 � days.
21
February 1928, Tuesday
(-6,286)
20 February 1928.
Monday (-6,287) Britain recognised the independence of the Kingdom of Transjordan
(now Jordan).
19 February 1928.
Sunday (-6,288) A new world land speed record of 206.35
mph was set by Malcolm Campbell in the US.
18 February 1928, Saturday
(-6,289) Professor John Ostrom, paleontological writer, was born (died 16
July 2005)
17
February 1928, Friday
(-6,290)
16 February 1928, Thursday
(-6,291) Eddie Foy, US comedian, died in Kansas City (born 9 March 1854 in
new York).
15 February 1928.
Wednesday (-6,292) (1)
Herbert Harry Asquith, Liberal Prime Minister in the UK from 1908 to 1916,
died.
(2)
The Oxford English Dictionary was completed after 70 years of work.
12 February 1928.
Sunday (-6,295) The British colony of Malta gained
Dominion status.
9 February 1928, Thursday
(-6,298) Rinus Michels, football manager, was born (died 3 March 2005)
8 February 1928, Wednesday
(-6,299) Oslan Ellis, harpist, was born.
6 February 1928.
Monday (-6,301) 50,000 fled as
Communists raided Peking.
3
February 1928, Friday
(-6,301) Rioting in India as the Simon Commission arrived from Britain to
report on the furure government of the country.
1 February 1928.
Wednesday (-6,306) In the USA, Dr
Herbert Evans discovered vitamin E.
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31
January 1928, Tuesday
(-6,307)
30 January 1928,
Monday (-6,308)
Croydon Aerodrome began operations, see 29 March 1920 and 2 May 1928.
29 January 1928,
Sunday (-6,309) General Earl Haig, WW I Commander and
founder of the British Legion, died in London. He was buried at Dryburgh Abbey.
28
January 1928, Saturday
(-6,310)
26 January 1928, Thursday
(-6,312) Roger Vadim, film director and actor, was born.
25 January 1928,
Wednesday (-6,313)
Edvard Shevardnadze, Soviet Foreign Minister under Gorbachev, was born.
24 January 1928, Tuesday
(-6,314) Desmond Morris, zoologist, was born.
23 January 1928, Monday
(-6,315) Jeanne Moreau, actress, was born.
21 January 1928,
Saturday (-6,317) George Washington Goethals, American,
chief engineer of the Panama Canal, died.
18 January 1928,
Wednesday (-6,320) The first passenger flight
by Pan-American Airlines,
17 January 1928, Tuesday (-6,321) Vidal
Sassoon, English hair stylist, was born in London.
16 January 1928,
Monday (-6,322) The
6th International Conference of American States opened in Havana. US
President Coolidge presided at the opening.
15 January 1928, Sunday (-6,323)
Joanne Linville, US actress, was born in Bakersfield, California (died 2021)
14 January 1928.
Saturday (-6,324) Clashes between Italians and
tribesmen in Libya, 100 tribesmen killed.
13 January 1928.
Friday (-6,325) Allied military control
in Bulgaria ended.
12 January 1928,
Thursday (-6,326) The
Italian press was banned from reporting suicides or sensational crimes
11 January 1928.
Wednesday (-6,327) Thomas Hardy,
English poet and novelist, author of Tess of the D�Ubervilles, died in
his native Dorset aged 87.
10 January 1928.
Tuesday (-6,328) (1) Stalin purged his opponents. Many were
arrested by his security police, the OGPU, and sent to exile in Siberia.� Trotsky was exiled from the USSR.
(2)
Aviators Hood and Moncrieff were lost whilst attempting the first flight across
the Tasman Sea, from Australia to New Zealand.
8 January 1928,
Sunday (-6,330)
7 January 1928.
Saturday (-6,331) Fourteen people drowned when the
River Thames flooded parts of London, including the Palace of Westminster. A
sudden thaw swelled the river as high tides and strong winds also drove up
water levels.
6 January 1928,
Friday (-6,332) Italian Finance Minister
Giuseppe Volpi banned industries from taking out foreign loans without
government approval.
5 January 1928.
Thursday (-6,333) The first over 65s in
the UK received their State Pensions.
The sum was 10 shillings a week.
Walter Mondale, US Vice-President, was born in Ceylon,
Minnesota.
4 January 1928,
Wednesday (-6,334) Severe flooding hit large
areas of England.
3 January 1928,
Tuesday (-6,335) US troops went to
Nicaragua to fight the Sandinistas.
2 January 1928,
Monday (-6,336) Daily Service was first broadcast on radio in the UK.
1 January 1928,
Sunday (-6,337)
Nearly 250,000 domestic slaves in the British Protectorate of Sierra Leone were
freed by decree of 1927.
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31 December 1927,
Saturday (-6,338) (1) In Britain the Electricity Supply Act provided
for the setting up of a Central Electricity Board, which will create a uniform
national supply via a national grid. At the time, there were many small
competing power companies, delaying the spread of electrification, and only
about 10% of UK homes could run the new electrical gadgets such as vacuum
cleaners.
(2)
The use of the lance was abandoned by the British Army, except for ceremonial
purposes.
27
December 1927, Tuesday
(-6.,342) First performance in New York of Jerome Kern and Oscar
Hammerstein II�s musical Show Boat.
25 December 1927,
Sunday (-6,344) A White Christmas in London.
23 December 1927,
Friday (-6,346) John Cockett, hockey player,
was born.
19 December 1927,
Monday (-6,350)
In China, 600 Communists were executed by the Nationalists.
15 December 1927,
Thursday (-6,354)
China broke off diplomatic relations with the USSR. This was after an attempted Communist uprising in Guangzhou.
14 December 1927.
Wednesday (-6,355) Chiang Kai Shek�s
forces suppressed an attempted Communist coup in Canton.
13 December 1927, Tuesday
(-6,356) Christopher Plummer, actor, was born
12 December 1927, Monday
(-6,357) Honor Blackman, actress, was born.
10 December 1927,
Saturday (-6,359)
As greyhound racing grew in popularity, London�s third racecourse opened, at
Wembley, to join those at Haringey and White City. Harringey
stadium closed in 1987 to make way for a Sainsbury superstore.
5
December 1927, Monday
(-6,364) King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand was born iu Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
3 December 1927, Saturday
(-6,366) Andy Williams, singer, was born.
2 December 1927,
Friday (-6,367)
Ford�s Model A car went on sale as the successor to the Model T.
1 December 1927, Thursday
(-6,368) Chiang Kai Shek (also, Jiang Jieshi) married Song Meiling (Sung
Mei Ling), a wealthy and Christianised US educated member of one of China�s
wealthiest families. He had earlier divorced his previous wife.
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25 November 1927, Friday (-6,374) The UK
announced the setting up of the Simon Commission, headed by Sir John Simon, to
study the governance of India.
22
November 1927, Tuesday (-6,377) 200 unemployed Welsh miners marched to
London, but Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin refused to meet them.
18
November 1927. Friday (-6,381) The
head of the International Football Association announced the creation of a World
Cup.
15 November 1927, Tuesday (-6,384)
Trotsky and Zinoviev were expelled from the Communist Party, USSR.
14 November 1927, Monday (-6,385) The
Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party voted to expel both Trotsky and
Zinoviev from membership, along with 81 of their associates. The resolution
became effective on December 2, when the Fifteenth Congress of the CPSU purged
93 other Party members associated with the "Trotsky-Zinoviev faction"
13 November 1927, Sunday (-6,386)
The Holland Tunnel, linking New York City to New Jersey, was opened.
12 November 1927. Saturday (-6,387) (1) The first automatic telephone exchange opened,
in Holborn, London.
(2) The first London to
Brighton veteran car rally, sponsored by the Daily Sketch.� It was won by
John Bryce, from amongst 51 competitors.
11 November 1927, Friday (-6,388) France and Yugoslavia made a
friendship treaty.
10 November 1927. Thursday (-6,389) General Motors announced the largest
dividend in history, US$ 62million.
9 November 1927, Wednesday (-6,390) Rebellion in the Lithuanian city of
Taurag� by citizens dissatisfied with President Antanas Smetona, 209 people
were convicted of charges arising from the insurrection, and eleven were
executed.
8 November 1927, Tuesday (-6,391) Nguyen Khanh, Prime Minister
of South Vietnam, was born.
7
November 1927, Monday (-6,392)
5 November 1927. Saturday (-6,394) The UK�s first set of automatic traffic
lights began operating, at the Prince Square crossroads in
Wolverhampton.
4 November 1927, Friday (-6,395) (Aviation) M
de Bernardi, Italy, set a new aviation speed record of 297.83 mph.
1
November 1927, Tuesday
(-6,398) Florence Mills, US
singer, died in new York (born 25; January 1895 in Washington DC)
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30 October 1927, Sunday (-6,400) Admiral Paul Kondouriotis, the President of
Greece, survived an assassination attempt by a 25-year-old waiter. Zafioios
Goussies shot President Kondouriotis in the head as the he was leaving a
conference of Greece's mayors in Athens.
29 October 1927, Saturday (-6,401)
Russian archaeologist Peter Kozlof discovered the tomb of Genghis Khan.
28 October 1927, Friday (-6,402) The Monte Orso rail tunnel, Italy, 7.5 km
long, opened. Also the Vivola tunnel, Italy, 7 km long, opened. Also the Monte
Massico rail tunnel, Italy, 5.5 km long, opened.
26 October 1927, Wednesday (-6,404)
25 October 1927, Tuesday (-6,405) Barbara Cook, US actress, was
born in Atlanta, Georgia.
24 October 1927, Monday (-6,406) Gilbert Becaud, French
composer, was born in Toulon.
23
October 1927, Sunday (-6,407)
21 October 1927, Friday (+6,409) Nadia Nerina, ballerina, was
born
20 October 1927, Thursday (-6,410) Ronald Pearsall, writer, was
born (died 27 September 2005)
19 October 1927, Wednesday (-6,411) Francis Birtles left London on the first
overland trip to Australia by car. He arrived in Sydney on 15 July 1928.
18 October 1927. Tuesday (-6,412) Dancing
bears were banned from the streets of Berlin.
17 October 1927, Monday (-6,413) Norway elected its first Labour
government.
16 October 1927, Sunday (-6,614) The first remnant of Peking Man, a tooth, was
found by palaeontologist Anders Birger Bohlin at Chou K'ou Tien (Zhoukoudian),
under sponsorship of Davidson Black, who gave it the scientific name
Sinanthropus pekinensis. More remains would be discovered over the next ten
years, and reclassified as Homo erectus pekinensis, estimated to be more than
300,000 years old.
15 October 1927. Saturday (-6,415) (1) Britain�s Public Morals Committee attacked the use of contraceptives for
�causing poor hereditary stock�.
(2) Iraq made its
first oil strike, at Kirkuk.
14 October 1927, Friday (-6,416) Dieudonne
Costas and Joseph Le Brix became the first persons to fly an airplane across
the South Atlantic Ocean, and the first to make an east-to-west transatlantic
crossing, departing Saint-Louis, Senegal and arriving in Port Natal, Brazil 21
hours and 15 minutes later, at 11:40 pm local time.
13 October 1927, Thursday (-6,417)
Britain�s first veteran car rally took place.�
It was organised by the Daily Sketch, and took place in London,
with 43 entrants.
10 October 1927, Monday (-6,420) �������������������������������������������������������
6 October 1927. Thursday (-6,424) The first full
length talking picture, The Jazz Singer, opened in New York.
The soundtrack was almost entirely music. The biggest problem with sound movies
was synchronising speech with mouth movements.
5 October 1927. Wednesday (-6,425) The Labour Party voted to
nationalise the coal mines at its party conference at Blackpool.
1 October 1927, Saturday (-6,429) Sandy Gall, broadcaster, was
born.
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27 September 1927, Tuesday (-6,433)
Romano Scarpa, comic book illustrator, was born.
26 September 1927, Monday (-6,434)
Romano Mussolini, jazz musician (son of Benito Mussolini), was born (died 3
February 2006)
25 September 1927, Sunday (-6,435) Colin
Davis, conductor, was born
22
September 1927. Thursday (-6,438) Sierra
Leone abolished domestic slavery.
20 September 1927, Tuesday (-6,440) General
elections in the Irish Free State gave Cosgrave 61 seats to 57 for Fianna Fail;
overall government majority of 6.
19 September 1927, Monday (-6,441) A
Communist uprising in Guangdong (Canton) was easily crushed. However under a
new leader, Mao Zedong, it would develop into a stronger Party based on peasant
support.
18 September 1927, Sunday (-6,442) Phyllis
Kirk, actress, was born (died 19 October 2006).
16
September 1927. Friday (-6,444) President
Von Hindenburg repudiated German responsibility for the Great War (World War
One).
14
September 1927, Wednesday (-6,446) US
dancer Isadora Duncan, aged 49, was strangled to death when her long scarf
became tangled in the rear wheel of a sports car.
8 September 1927, Thursday (-6,452) In Edinburgh, the� Trades Union Congress voted to cut ties with
Soviet trades unions.
7 September 1927, Wednesday (-6,453) (China) Mao Tse Tung led a Communist uprising
in the rural province of Hunan.
5
September 1927, Monday (-6,455) Malcolm
Allison, footballer, was born in Dartford, England.
2 September 1927, Friday (-6,458) (Turkey) Mustafa Kemal made Turkey a one-party
state.
1 September 1927, Thursday (-6,459) (Atomic) German physicist Werner Karl
Heisenberg formulated his famous Uncertainty Principle � the more one knows
about the position of a subatomic particle, the less one knows about its
motion, and vice versa.
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27
August 1927, Saturday (-6,464) (Women�s Rights, Canada)
Emily Gowan Murphy (maiden name Ferguson, born 14 March 1868 in Cookstown,
Ontario), petitioned the Canadian Government to have women recognised as full
legal �persons�. She had been instrumental in passing the Dower Act
(1911),giving women a share in their husband�s property, and in 1916 Murphy had
been appointed as the first woman magistrate in the British Empire. However on
her first day as magistrate, a lawyer challenged her appointment as illegal as
she was not a �person� under Canadian law. Murphy began a legal battle to
overturn this law, petitioning the Canadian Government this day. On 14 March 1928
the Supreme Court of Canada decided against Murphy and four other campaigners,
Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, Henrrietta Muir and� Louise McKinney. The�Famous Five� took their
case to the British Privy Council, where they finally won on 18 October 1929.
Murphy died of diabetes in 1933.
23
August 1927, Tuesday (-6,468)
Allan Kaprow, artist, was born (died 5 April 2006)
18
August 1927, Thursday (-6,473)
(USA) Rosalynn Carter, wife of Jimmy Carter, 39th
US President, was born in Plains, Georgia, as Rosalynn Smith.
13 August 1927, Saturday (-6,478)
Hermann� Albert, German musicologist,
died in Stuttgart (born 25 March 1871, Stuttgart).
12 August 1927, Friday (-6,479)
Eamon de Valera took his seat in the Irish Dail.
11 August 1927, Thursday (-6,480)
Raymond Leppard, conductor, was born
7
August 1927, Sunday (-6,484)
The Peace Bridge opened between Canada and the USA.
1 August 1927, Monday (-6,490) The
Nanchang Army uprising against the Kuomintang. The Chinese Communist Party
considers this the date of the founding of the Red Army.
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31 July 1927, Sunday (-6,491) Peter
Nichols, playwright, was born
30
July 1927, Saturday (-6,492) Stan
Stennett, actor, was born
26
July 1927, Tuesday (-6,496)
Danny la Rue, entertainer, was born
24 July 1927, Sunday (-6,498) The
Menin Gate, a memorial at Ypres to the soldiers of the British Empire, was
unveiled by Lord Plumer.
23 July 1927, Saturday (-6,499) An exhibition
housing estate opened to the public in Weissenhof, near Stuttgart, Germany.
Designed by 16 leading Modernist architects, the flats were high-standard but
cheap through use of prefabricated components.
22
July 1927, Friday (-6,500)
21 July 1927, Thursday (-6,501) US
warships returned to Nicaragua, and some 2,000 Marines landed. Sandino joined
the foight against the USA the USA prepared to supervise further Nicaraguan
elections.
20 July 1927, Wednesday (-6,502)
King Ferdinand of Romania died, aged 61. He was succeeded by his nephew, 5-year
old Michael I.
18
July 1927, Monday (-6,504) (1) The Somport rail tunnel, 8 km long, between
France and Spain, opened.
(2) The first motor races were held at the Nurburgring,
Germany.
16 July 1927, Saturday (-6,506) Robert
Evans, footballer, was born in Glasgow.
15 July 1927. Friday (-6,507) Vienna
faced a General Strike as Socialists rioted. The left wing was upset that
Austrian courts were much more lenient on offences committed by right-wing
offenders, even up to murder.
14 July 1927, Thursday (-6,508) The
Prince of Wales opened the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh, It now
contains the names of over 100,000 Scots who died in both World Wars.
13
July 1927, Wednesday (-6,509)
11 July 1927. Monday (-6,511) The LNER (London and North Eastern
Railway) inaugurated a non-stop service between London and Newcastle on Tyne.
On 1 May 1928 the LNER inaugurated the longest non-stop train service in the
world, from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh, 392 � miles. The 392 mile journey
took 7 hours, 27 minutes.
10 July 1927, Sunday (-6,512) In Ireland, Kevin O�Higgins, Nationalist
Minister, was assassinated. This brought denunciation on the Republicans, and
the Irish Dail passed the Public Safety Act. This declared revolutionary
societies to be treasonable, and gave the Irish Government increased security
powers.
9 July 1927, Saturday (-6,513) John Drew, US actor, died in San Francisco,
California (born 13 November 1853 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
8 July 1927, Friday (-6,514) Charles Lindbergh inaugurated the
Transcontinental Air Transport airline with the first passenger flight from New
York to Los Angeles. The trip took 48 hours.
7 July 1927. Thursday (-6,515) Christopher Stone became the first
disc jockey on British radio when he presented his record round up from Savoy
Hill.
6 July 1927, Wednesday (-6,516) The Church of England approved revisions to the Book of Common
Prayer.
5 July 1927, Tuesday (-6,517) (Chemistry)
Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel, German biochemist, was born in
Heidelberg.
4 July 1927, Monday (-6,518) Gina Lollobrigida, Hollywood actress, was
born.
3 July 1927, Sunday (-6,519) Ken Russell, film director, was born.
2 July 1927, Saturday (-6,520) Brock Peters, actor, was born (died 23
August 2005)
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30
June 1927, Thursday (-6,522)
29 June 1927, Wednesday (-6,523) Piero
Dorazio, artist, was born (died 17 May 2005)
28 June 1927, Tuesday (-6,524) Correlli
Barnet, author, was born
25
June 1927, Saturday (-6,527)
Professor Sir Arnold Wolfendale, astronomer, was born.
23
June 1927. Thursday (-6,529) Britain
passed the Trades Disputes Act, making sympathetic strikes illegal. This was a
consequence of the General Strike, to support the miners, which began on 3 May 1926.
20 June 1927, Monday (-6,532) (1) Fighting between Communists and Fascists in
Hyde Park, London.
(2) Greyhound racing began at London�s White City
Stadium.
(3) Naval disarmament conference began, between UK, USA,
and Japan.� The conference ended on 4
April 1927 without agreement.
19 June 1927, Sunday (-6,533) Karel
Kupka, Czech composer, was born in Rychvald.
18 June 1927, Saturday (-6,534) (Food) Clarence Birdseye (1886-1956) took out a
patent for �flash-freezing� of fish. Whilst cold storage of food was known
beforehand, if it was only frozen slowly some spoilage of taste and appearance
still occurred. Birdseye noticed that fish caught in winter and left exposed to
freezing winds retained their taste as the froze quickly, His machine flash
froze food under high pressure.
17 June 1927, Friday (-6,535) Alan
Prescott, rugby player, was born.
16 June 1927, Thursday (-6,536)
Thomas Graveney, cricketer, was born.
15 June 1927, Wednesday (-6,537) The
flight from Amsterdam to Jakarta now took 15 days (see 10/1924, Aviation)
each way.
14 June 1927, Tuesday (-6,538)
British author Jerome K Jerome died.
13
June 1927, Monday (-6,539)
11 June 1927, Saturday (-6,541) Dame
Beryl Grey, ballerina, was born.
10 June 1927, Friday (-6,542)
Ladislav Kubala, footballer, was born in Hungary.
7
June 1927, Tuesday (-6,545)
5 June 1927, Sunday (-6,547) Thomas
Harris, rugby player, was born.
4 June 1927. Saturday (-6,548) In
Indonesia, Ahmed Sukarno founded the Indonesian Nationalist Party.
3 June 1927, Friday (-6,549) The
first Ryder Cup Golf Match between the UK and USA was held in Worcester,
Massachusetts. The USA won.
2
June 1927, Thursday (-6,550)
1 June 1927, Wednesday (-6,551) London�s
new Regent Street was opened by King George V.
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31 May 1927. Tuesday (-6,552) The
last �tin lizzie�, came off the production line, almost unchanged since the
model was introduced as the Model T Ford in 1908. 15,007,003 Model Ts were
produced. It was replaced by the Model A. The Model T had become outdated, and
Ford had lost first place in the market to General Motors. The first Model T
made in 1908 cost US$ 850 but by 1927 they cost under US$ 300. Ford had also
lost sales to the second hand market; other car manufacturers countered this by
changing the model slightly each year.
29
May 1927, Sunday (-6,554)
27 May 1927, Friday (-6,556) Tomas
Masaryk was re-elected President of Czechoslovakia.
26 May 1927, Thursday (-6,557) The
15 millionth Model T Ford was produced at the Ford Highland Park, Michigan,
factory/ This marked the end of production for this model.
25 May 1927, Wednesday (-6,558) Robert
Ludlum, spy novelist, was born.
24 May 1927. Tuesday (-6,559) Britain
severed relations with the USSR amid allegations of subversion and espionage
throughout the British Empire. On 9 June 1927 the USSR executed 20 people
accused of being British spies.
23
May 1927, Monday (-6,560)
22 May 1927, Sunday (-6,561) Earthquake in China killed 200,000.
21 May 1927. Saturday (-6,562) Charles A Lindbergh
completed the first solo Atlantic flight. He took off from Roosevelt
Field, Long Island, flew his monoplane Spirit of St Louis for 33 �
hours, and landed at Le Bourget airfield, Paris. Landing in Paris, he won the
US$ 25,000 prize for the first solo flight across the Atlantic.
20 May 1927. Friday (-6,563) Britain
recognised the independence of Saudi Arabia, under the Treaty of Jeddah.
16
May 1927, Monday (-6,567)
Nilton Santos, Brazilian footballer, was born.
14
May 1927. Saturday (-6,569) The
BBC broadcast its first cricket commentary, from the Essex vs. New Zealand
match at Leyton, east London.
11
May 1927, Wednesday (-6,572) (Road Traffic) Francis Davis filed a patent
for power steering of vehicles. Whilst cars at the time did not need this
technology, the heavier trucks and buses of the 1920s did. Additionally, uneven
roads could jar the steering, causing the drover to experience �wheel fight�.
General Motors took out a licence on the new invention; however the Depression
caused them to delay plans for its use until 1941. By then World War Two caused
further delays, and the technology was not fitted to passenger cars until 1951
by Chrysler.
9
May 1927. Monday (-6,574) Parliament
House, Canberra, opened. Canberra
became the new capital of Australia, replacing Melbourne.
3 May 1927, Tuesday (-6,580)
Ernest R Ball, US composer, died in Santa Ana, California (born 21 July 1878 in
Cleveland, Ohio)
2 May 1927, Monday (-6,581) (Medical) Ernest Henry Starling, English
physiologist, died at sea near Kingston, Jamaica.
1 May 1927, Sunday (-6,582) The first airline cooked meals
were served, from a galley aboard the Imperial Airways Silver Ewing London to
Paris flights. The galley could serve up to 18 passengers.
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29
April 1927, Friday (-6,585)
William Slater, footballer, was born.
27 April 1927, Wednesday (-6,586) Coretta
Scott King, writer, writer, was born.
26 April 1927, Tuesday (-6,587)
Philomena Garvey, golfer, was born.
24
April 1927, Sunday (-6,589)
22 April 1927, Friday (-6,591) Start
of the Great Mississippi Flood, until 5 May 1927. 246 people were killed.
21 April 1927. Thursday (-6,592) The
National Museum of Wales opened in Cardiff.
19
April 1927, Tuesday (-6,594) The US actress Mae West was
convicted of obscenity for writing, producing and directing a Broadway musical
called Sex. The play had already been
running for a year and been seen by 325,000 people� before the New York Police Department closed
it down.
17 April 1927, Sunday (-6,596) Easter
Sunday.
16 April 1927, Saturday (-6,597) Pope
Benedict XVI was boorn.
14
April 1927, Thursday (-6,599) the
first Volvo car was manufactured in Gothenburg, Sweden
12
April 1927, Tuesday (-6,601) Chiang
Kai Shek massacred his former Communist allies in Shanghai.
7 April 1927, Thursday (-6,606) The comedian A Dolan was
televised in Whippany, New Jersey, making him the first televised comedian.
6 April 1927, Wednesday (-6,607) Chinese police raided the
Soviet Embassy in Beijing, seizing incriminating evidence of subversion. Several
Communist leaders were later executed.
5 April 1927, Tuesday (-6,608) (Italy, East Europe)
Hungary signed a �Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation� with the Italian
leader, Mussolini. Hungary needed allies, and Italy strengthened its influence
in the Danube Basin.
2
April 1927, Saturday (-6,611)
The Oxford and Cambridge boat race was first broadcast.
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29
March 1927. Tuesday (-6,615) A new land speed record of 203.841 mph
was set by Major Harry Seagrave at the Daytona Beach racetrack, Florida.
27 March 1927, Sunday (-6,617) Mstislav
Rostropovich, cellist, was born (died 27 April 2007).
26 March 1927. Saturday (-6,618) The
Gaumont British Film Corporation was founded.
24
March 1927, Thursday (-6,620) In
China, the Guomindang took Shanghai. Jiang Jeishi now began negotiations with
wealthy Shanghai bankers and turned on his former Communist allies.
22 March 1927, Tuesday (-6,622) Kuomintang
troops entered Shanghai, Kiangsu Province.
21 March 1927. Monday (-6,623) The victorious army of Chiang Kai-Shek
entered Shanghai. In April 1927 he mounted an offensive against trade
unionists and Communists, driving them into the countryside.
19
March 1927, Saturday (-6,625)
18 March 1927, Friday (-6,626) John
Harold Kander, US composer, was born in Kansas City
17 March 1927, Thursday (-6,627)
Patrick Allen, actor, was born (died 28 July 2006)
14
March 1927, Monday (6,630) Founding
of Pan-American World Airways (Pan-Am) to carry airmails between Key West
(Florida) and Havana (Cuba).
11 March 1927, Friday (-6,633) Ron
Todd, leader of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) was born (died
30 April 2005).
10 March 1927, Thursday (-6,634)
Robert Kearns, inventor of the intermittent windscreen wiper system for
vehicles in 1967, was born,
9
March 1927, Wednesday (+6,635)
8 March 1927, �Tuesday (-6,636) Archaeologists discovered a
5,000-year-old manicure kit in Iran.
7 March 1927,� Monday (-6,635) Betty Leslie-Melville, wildlife
conservationist, was born (died 23 September 2005)
3
March 1927, Thursday (-4,641)
John Parry Thomas, motor car racer, died.
1 March 1927, Tuesday (-6,643) Coal
mine explosion in Ebbw Vale, Glamorgan, killed 50 and trapped 150 miners. ====================================================================================
28 February 1927, Monday (-6,644) In
Britain severe gales with wind speeds up to 160 kph / 102 mph.
24
February 1927, Thursday (-4,648) Kuomintang
forces entered Hangchow, Chekiang Province.
22
February 1927, Tuesday (-6,650)
21 February 1927, Monday (-6,651) Erma
Bombeck, writer, was born.
20 February 1927, Sunday (-6,652) French
fashion designer Hubert Taffin de Givenchy was born.
18
February 1927, Friday (-6,654) (Canada)
Canada and the US established diplomatic relations
10 February 1927, Thursday (-6,662)
Leontyne Price, soprano singer, was born.
9 February 1927, Wednesday (-6,663) Norman
Adams, artist, was born (died 10 March 2005).
8 February 1927. Tuesday (-6,664) The
revised book of common prayer introduced sex equality to the Church of England
wedding service.
7 February 1927, Monday (-6,665) Emile
Coue, French psychotherapist, died at Nancy.
5
February 1927, Saturday (-6,667)
4 February 1927. Friday (-6,668) Malcolm
Campbell set a new world land speed record of 174.224 mph in his car, Bluebird,
on Pendine Sands.
3 February 1927, Thursday (-6,669)
In Portugal, a revolt began against dictator General Carmona; the revolt was
defeated on 13 February 1927.
2 February 1927, Wednesday (-6,670)
Stan Getz, US jazz saxophonist, was born in Philadelphia.
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31
January 1927, Monday (-6,672) 12,000 British troops were
ordered to China to defend British nationals in Shanghai, where the civil war
was posing a threat to foreigners.
29 January 1927. Saturday (-6,674) In
London the Park Lane Hotel opened, the first with en-suite bathrooms.
28 January 1927, Friday (+6,675)
Ronnie Scott, British jazz saxophonist., was born in London
27 January 1927, Thursday (-6,676) Nina
Milkina, Russian-born pianist, was born (died 29 November 2006)
24
January 1927, Monday (-6,679) The British Medical
Association warned that cancer deaths, especially of the chest and tongue, had
risen sharply in the past 20 years. Smoking had become much more popular over
this period.
22 January 1927. Saturday (-6,681) The
BBC broadcast its first football match; between Arsenal and Sheffield
United.� The result was a draw, 1-1.
21 January 1927, Friday (-6,682) Telly
Savalas, American film actor who played �Kojak�, was born in Garden City, New
York.
20 January 1927, Thursday (-6,683)
Geoffrey Atkins, British rackets player, was born.
15
January 1927. Saturday (-6,688) (1) Winston Churchill met Mussolini in Italy.
(2) Founding of the Boeing Air Transport Company, to
carry airmail between San Francisco and Chicago.
10 January 1927, Monday (-6,693) The
futuristic film Metropolis, by Fritz
Lang, premiered. It was the most expensive silent film made so far, costing 7
million German Marks, equivalent to US$ 200 million in 2005.
9 January 1927. Sunday (-6,694) Greta
Garbo and John Gilbert� -real life lovers
� shocked cinemagoers in New York by their uninhibited kissing in the silent
film Flesh and the Devil.
8 January 1927. Saturday (-6,695) The
first scheduled flight from London to Delhi arrived in India.
7 January 1927. Friday (-6,696) (1) The transatlantic telephone service between
London and New York began. The charge was �15 for three minutes.
(2) The Harlem Globetrotters basketball team was founded.
4
January 1927, Tuesday (-6,699)
2 January 1927, Sunday (-6,701) Catholic
rebels in Mexico launched the Cristero War against the Mexican Government
(until 1929)
1 January 1927. Saturday (-6,702) (1) The British Broadcasting
Corporation, BBC, came into being. It had formerly been the British
Broadcasting Company.
(2) Hungary reformed its currency with a new unit, the
Pengo, equivalent to 12,500 paper Crowns. The country had suffered rampant
inflation in the early 1920s, and the League of Nations now helped with
economic reconstruction.
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31
December 1926, Friday (-6,703)
30 December 1926, Thursday (-6,704)
Clifford Williams, theatre director, was born (died 20 August 2005)
29 December 1926, Wednesday (-6,705)
Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet, died.
25
December 1926. Saturday (-6,709) Emperor
Hirohito ascended the Japanese throne after the death of his father Emperor
Yoshihito.� He died in January 1989 after
62 years as Emperor.
23
December 1926, Thursday (-6,711)
Charlie Williams, comedian, was born (died 2 September 2006)
20
December 1926, Monday (-6,714)
The first underground railway in Australia opened, in Sydney.
15
December 1926. Wednesday (-6,719)
The Italian fascist party adopted the Roman symbol of authority, the
fasces, or bundle of sticks, and origin of the word �fascist,, as its symbol.
8
December 1926, Wednesday (-6,726)
Joachim Fest, historical writer, was born (died 11 September 2006)
6
December 1926. Monday (-6,728) The
impressionist painter Claude Monet died as a recluse in Coventry, aged 86.
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27 November 1926. Saturday (-6,737) (1) Vesuvius erupted.
(2) Italy and Albania signed the Treaty
of Tirana, effectively making Albania an Italian Protectorate. Britain formally
recognised the Treaty, angering France, who saw the Balkans as their sphere of influence.
26 November 1926, Friday (-6,738) Karl
Mullen, rugby player, was born.
23
November 1926, Tuesday (-6,741) RL
Burnside, Blues musician, was born (died 1 September 2005)
20 November 1926. Saturday (-6,744) The
Commonwealth was born out of the British Empire. Britain decided that the self-governing
dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Newfoundland
should have equal status with Britain as members of a �commonwealth of
nations�. Ireland also became independent. The status of India was unchanged.
19 November 1926. Friday (-6,745) British
striking miners returned to work, after a six-month strike, agreeing to work
longer hours in return for no pay cut.
16
November 1926, Tuesday (-6,748)
13 November 1926, Saturday (-6,751) In Italy, Mario de Bernardi
set a new seaplane speed record of 246 mph.
12 November 1926, Friday (-6,752) Nationalist
revolt against Dutch rule in Java, Indonesia.
11 November 1926, Thursday (-6,753) The
US� commercial broadcaster NBC(National
Broadcasting Company) was founded
10
November 1926, Wednesday (-6,754)
9 November 1926, Tuesday (-6,755)
Piero Cappuccilli, baritone singer, was born (died 12 July 2005)
8 November 1926, Monday (-6.756) (Communism, Italy)
Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci was jailed. He had started the Italian
Communist Party in 1921, and by 1924 was party leader and heading the fight
against Mussolini�s Fascism. He was imprisoned as part of a fascist crackdown
on its opponents, and in 1928 Gramsci�s prison term was extended to 28 years.
In prison in Rome he wrote Prison
Notebooks, detailing his theory of cultural hegemony, the process whereby
the working class take on the values and interests of the middle and upper
classes. Gramsci argued that the working class needed to develop its own
distinctive culture before a true Communist revolution was possible, this
process requiring intellectuals from the working class to create this culture.
He died in prison in 1937 and his sister in law, Tatiana, smuggled his works
out of the prison and sent them in a diplomatic bag to Moscow. His writings
were not published until after World War Two had ended.
7 November 1926, Sunday (-6,757) Dame Joan
Sutherland, opera singer, was born.
6 November 1926, Saturday (-6,758) Frank
Carson, comedian, was born
5
November 1926, Friday (-6,759)
4 November 1926, Thursday (-6,760)
Queen Astrid of Belgium (1905-35), daughter of Charles of Sweden and Princess
Ingeborg of Denmark, married Leopold III, Crown Prince of Belgium, who became
King of Belgium on 23 February 1934.Mother of King Baudouin I of Belgium, she
was killed in a car accident near Kussnacht, Switzerland.
3 November 1926, Wednesday (-6,761)
Annie Oakley, sharpshooter, died.
2 November 1926. Tuesday (-6,762) Imperial
Chemical Industries, ICI, was formed, from the merger of four companies;
Brunner Mond, Nobel Industries, United Alkali and British� Dyestuffs.
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31
October 1926. Sunday (-6,764) (1) The USA magician and escapologist Harry Houdini died, aged 52. He was
born as Ehrich Weisz in Hungary and adopted his later name from the conjuror
Robert Houdin whose autobiography he read as a young boy. .Determined to match
Houdin�s achievements and to haul his family out of poverty, Houdini ran away
to New York to begin a life in magic and entertainment which would enthral
thousands. He escaped from handcuffs in an underwater nailed packing crate, and
later exposed many psychic frauds. Whilst giving a lecture on spiritualism in
Montreal, Houdini was asked if he could withstand a blow to the abdomen. Before
he had a chance to prepare himself, Houdini was struck three times by a
student. Despite this he managed to perform again, but died of peritonitis in a
Detroit hospital a few days later.
(2) Jimmy Savile, British radio and TV presenter, was
born in Leeds, Yorkshire.
(3) An attempt was made on Mussolini�s life. This gave
him the excuse to remove more civil liberties.
28
October 1926, Thursday (-6,767) Jon
Vickers, tenor singer, was born
23
October 1926, Saturday (-6,772)
In Russia, Leon Trotsky and Zinoviev were ousted from the Politburo.
20
October 1926, Wednesday (+6,775)
Lord Montague of Beaulieu was born
18
October 1926, Monday (-6,777) Chuck
Berry, US singer, was born.
16 October 1926, Saturday (-6,779) A
troopship exploded on the Yangtze River, China, killing 1,200 people.
15 October 1926, Friday (-6,780) Ignaz
Seipel formed a Christian Socialist Government in Austria, replacing Rudolf
Ramek.
14 October 1926. Thursday (-6,781) In
Britain, AA Milne published the first Winnie
the Pooh, children�s book. It was inspired by his son Christopher Robin�s
love for a bear in London Zoo called Winnipeg.
13
October 1926, Wednesday (-6,782)
12 October 1926, Tuesday (-6,783) Nikita
Simonian, Russian footballer, was born.
11 October 1926. Monday� (-6,784) Children�s
Hour started on BBC Radio.
10 October 1926, Sunday (-6,785) Kuomintang troops entered
Wuchang, Kiangsi Province.
7
October 1926. Thursday (-6,788) Mussolini
decreed the Fascist party to be the State Party; all opposition was banned.
3 October 1926, Sunday (-6,792) At Chiswick, London, Violet
Percy became the first woman to run a marathon. She took 3 hours 4o minutes.
2 October 1926, Saturday (-6,793) In
Poland, Jozef Piludski became Prime Minister.
1 October 1926, Friday (-6,794)
Alan Cobham made a round the world flight in 58 days.
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28
September 1926, Tuesday (-6,797) Ford
opened a sales office in Alexandria, Egypt.
26 September 1926, Sunday (-6,799) Two
Lufthansa Junker planes completed a round trip from Berlin to Beijing and back,
having departed on 24 July 1926.
25 September 1926, Saturday (-6,800) Italy
began a campaign against the Mafia in Sicily.
23
September 1926, Thursday (-6,802)
John Coltrane, jazz musician, was born.
20 September 1926, Monday (-6,805)
Frederick Winter, champion jockey, was born.
19 September 1926, Sunday (-6,806) Arthur
Wills, composer, was born
17
September 1928, Friday (-6,808)
16 September 1926, Thursday (-6,809) Tommy
Bond, actor, was born (died 23 September 2005)
15 September 1926, Wednesday (-6,810)
�Jelly Roll� Morton and his band, the Red Hot Peppers, released their first
record. Their blend of ragtime with brass band style was a key stage in the
development of jazz.
14 September 1926, Tuesday (-6,811)
Michel Butor, French novelist, was born.
12
September 1926, Sunday (-6,813) David Valentine, rugby player,
was born (died 14 August 1976).
10
September 1926, Friday (-6,815) Beryl
Cook, painter, was born.
8 September 1926. Wednesday (-6,817)
The League of Nations voted to admit Germany as a member. On 11 September 1926
Spain left the League in protest at Germany joining.
7 September 1926. Tuesday (-6,818) (1) Spain left the League of Nations after being
denied a permanent seat on the council.
(2) Kuomintang troops entered Wuchang, Hupeh Province.
4
September 1926, Saturday (-6,821)
3 September 1926, Friday (-6,822)
Alison Lurie, US writer, was born.
2 September 1926, Thursday (-6,823)
Italy agreed a treaty with Yemen; Italy was attempting to control the eastern
coast of the Red Sea.
1 September 1926, Wednesday (-6,824) (1)
Civil marriage was established in Turkey.
(2) Adbur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh, was
born.
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31 August 1926, Tuesday (-6.825)
30 August 1926, Monday
(-6,826) General Motors New Zealand began operations, at Petone.
29 August 1926. Sunday (-6,827) A Nazi Party rally was held at Nuremberg.
26
August 1926, Thursday (-6,830)
British physicist Paul Dirac, independently of Fermi, also explained the
existence of fundamental particles.
24
August 1926, Tuesday (-6,832)
23 August 1926, Monday (-6,833)
Rudolf Valentino, Hollywood film star, died.
22 August 1926, Sunday (-6,834) Theodore
Pangalos, Greek dictator, was deposed and imprisoned in Crete.
21 August 1926, Saturday (-6,835) Kuomintang
troops took Changsha, Hunan Province.
20 August 1926, Friday (-6,836) William
Trew, rugby player, died.
18
August 1926, Wednesday (-6,838)
17 August 1926, Tuesday (-6,839)
George Melly, jazz musician, was born (died 5 July 2007).
16 August 1926, Monday (-6,840)
Channing Pollock, magician, was born (died 18 March 2006)
15
August 1928, Sunday (-6,841)
14 August 1926, Saturday (-6,842) Buddy
Greco, singer, was born
13 August 1926. Friday (-6,843) Cuban
revolutionary and leader Fidel Castro was born near Biran, the son of a sugar
planter.
11
August 1926, Wednesday (-6,845)
Sir Aaron Klug, biochemist, was born.
7 August 1926. Saturday (-6,849) The
first motor racing Grand Prix in Britain was held at Brooklands, with the
winning car averaging 71.61 mph.� The
race was over 110 laps, or 287 miles.
6 August 1926, Friday (-6,850) American
Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel. It took her
14 hours 30 minutes to complete the crossing.
5 August 1926. Thursday (-6,851) Houdini,
the famous escapologist and magician, survived for 1 � hours in a bronze coffin
in a hotel swimming pool in Los Angeles.
4 August 1926, Wednesday (-6,852) Umberto
Nobile was feted in Rome for his part in the recent North Pole expedition, as
20,000 filled the square in front of the Palazzo Chigi.
3 August 1926. Tuesday
(-6,853) Britain�s first traffic
lights went into operation in Piccadilly Circus, London.
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31
July 1926, Saturday (-6,856)
30
July 1926, Friday (-6,857) The
boundaries of Albania were formally agreed by Greece and Yugoslavia.
26
July 1926, Monday (-6,861) The
French Government made Roquefort Cheese a geographically-protected brand,
passing a law that this cheese can only be made in the limestone caves of
Roquefort, near Toulouse. This was the first law of its kind.
24
July 1926. Saturday (-6,863) The
first greyhound racing track was opened by Brigadier Critchley, at Belle Vue in
Manchester.
22 July 1926, Thursday (-6,865)
Bryan Forbes, film producer, was born.
21 July 1926, Wednesday (-6.866)
Bill Pertwee, actor, was born
18
July 1926, Sunday (-6,869) Richard
Pasco, actor, was born.
15 July 1926, Thursday (-6,872) In
Vienna, 2 Right-wing militia men were acquitted of murder., this led to riots
between Socialist and Right wing groups in which 85 protestors and 4 policemen
died.
14 July 1926, Wednesday (-6,873)
Harry Dean Stanton, actor, was born.
12
July 1926, Monday (-6,875)
Gertrude Bell, writer, was born.
10
July 1926, Saturday (-6,877) Kenneth
Richmond, wrestler, was born.
8 July 1926, Thursday (-6,879)
Elisabeth Kubler Ross, psychiatrist, was born.
7 July 1926, Wednesday (-6,880)
John Cronshey, speed skater, was born.
6 July 1926, Tuesday (-6,881) A
White man was speared by an indigenous Australian,� because the White man was beating the
Australian� with a whip. This provoked a
killing spree of some 100 indigenous Australians by Australian police.
4
July 1926, Sunday (-6,883) Alfredo
di Stefano, Spanish footballer, was born in a�
poor suburb of Buenos Aires.
2
July 1926, Friday (-6,885) Hans
Werner Henze, composer, was born.
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30 June 1926, Wednesday (-6,887) (Biology) Paul Berg was born in New York City,
USA. In 1974 he recommended a halt to genetic engineering experiments.
29 June 1926. Tuesday (-6,888) In
Italy, Mussolini increased the
working day by one hour.
28 June 1926, Monday (-6,889) In
Canada, W L MacKenzie King resigned as a result of the Canadian Customs
scandal. Arthur Meighen formed a Liberal Government,
26
June 1926, Saturday (-6,891)
23 June 1926, Wednesday (-6,894)
Hank Shaw, trumpeter, was born (died 26 October 2006)
22 June 1926, Tuesday (-6,895)
Canada took a further step towards complete independence within the Commonwealth
by declaring that any treaty requiring Canadian military or economic
participation must be ratified by the Canadian Parliament.
19
June 1926, Saturday (-6,898)
17
June 1926, Thursday (-6,900)
Professor Sir Alan Walters, economist and writer, was born.
14
June 1926, Monday (-6,903) Mary
Cassatt, artist, died.
12 June 1926. Saturday (-6,905) Brazil
left the League of Nations.
11 June 1926, Friday (-6,906)
Maiden flight of the Ford 4AT trimotor plane.
10 June 1926, Thursday (-6,907) Spanish architect Gaudi y
Cornet died. His most famous building is the Sagrada Familia cathedral in
Barcelona.
9 June 1926, Wednesday (-6,908)
Sanford Ballard Dole, Hawaiian statesman (born 23 April 1844 in Honolulu) died
in Honolulu.
7
June 1926, Monday (-6,910)
5 June 1926, Saturday (-6,912) At the Treaty of Angora,
Turkey accepted the Brussels line, setting the northern boundary of Iraq, and
including Mosul within Iraq.� Turkey was
to receive a share of oil revenues from Mosul for the next 25 years, and to be
compensated for public works carried out around Mosul.
4 June 1926, Friday (-6,913) Frederick Spofforth,
Australian cricketer, died.
3 June 1926, Thursday (-6,914) Allan Ginsberg, US poet, was
born.
2 June 1926, Wednesday (-6,915) Jonas
Staugaitis was elected head of the Seimas in Lithuania.
1 June 1926, Tuesday (-6,916) Marilyn
Monroe, American film actress, was born in Los Angeles, California, as Norma
Jean Baker.
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31 May 1926, Monday (-6,917) In
Poland, the Parliament elected Jozef Piludski as leader, but he declined to
take the office. On 1 June 1926, Ignace Moscicki was elected in his place.
30 May 1926, Sunday (-6,918) Christine
Jorgensen, campaigner for trans-gender rights, was born,
28
May 1926, Friday (-6,920)
A
coup in Portugal established a military dictatorship.
26 May 1926, Wednesday (-6,922)
Joseph Horowitz, composer, was born in Vienna
25 May 1926, Tuesday (-6,923) Jazz
musician Miles Davis was born.
23
May 1926, Sunday (-6,925) In
Morocco, the French seized Rif, and the rebel leader Abd El Krim surrendered.
20 May 1926, Thursday (-6,928)
(Aviation) US Congress passed the Air Commerce Act, marking the start of
greater Government regulation of the aviation industry. The Act provided for
licencing of aircraft and pilots.
19 May 1926, Wednesday (-6,929)
David Jacobs, broadcaster, was born.
18 May 1926, Tuesday (-6,930) The
Preparatory Commission for a World Disarmament Conference held its first
meeting, The US, UK and Japan attended, but the USSR did not.
17
May 1926, Monday (-6,931)
16 May 1926, Sunday (-6,932) Eamon de Valera, former
President of Sinn Fein, inaugurated the new political party of Fianna Fail
(�Soldier of Destiny�) at the La Scala theatre in Dublin. His main aim was the
reunification of Ireland.
15 May 1926, Saturday (-6,933) Peter
Shaffer, English playwright, was born (died 1926).
14 May 1926, Friday (-6,934) Josef
Pilsudski seized power in a military coup in Poland.
13
May 1926, Thursday (-6,935)
12 May 1926. Wednesday (-6,936)
(1) Striking
miners in Britain resolved to carry on alone, after the TUC called off a
general strike in support. See 1 May 1926.
(2) Roald Amundsen flew in the airship Norge over the North Pole. They had left
Spitsbergen on 11/5 and landed on 14 May 1926 at Teller, Alaska.
11 May 1926, Tuesday (-6,937) Eamon
de Valera resigned as leader of Sinn Feinn.
10 May 1926. Monday (-6,938) Striking
UK miners grew angry as the army moved food from the docks by rail (see 1 May 1926).
The Flying Scotsman was derailed in Northumberland, partly because the
volunteer driver refused to heed warnings that the track ahead had been lifted.
No serious injuries were caused, but the miners responsible got prison
sentences of up to eight years.
9 May 1926, Sunday (-6,939) Richard Byrd, American explorer, made
the first flight over the North Pole,
with pilot Floyd Bennett.
8 May 1926, Saturday (-6,940) The
naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough was born.
5
May 1926, Wednesday (-6,943)
Professor John Vaughan, agricultural scientist, was born (died 17 May 2005)
3 May 1926, Monday (-6,945)
The General Strike began in Britain.
2 May 1926, Sunday (-6,946) In
Nicaragua, a revolt against the new President, Emiliano Chamorro, was underway.
This day US troops landed in Nicaragua to protect US personnel and property
interests there.
1 May 1926. Saturday (-6,947) (1) In Britain, a coal strike began over proposed pay cuts and longer working hours by the
mine owners, faced with a slump in the coal trade (see 25 July 1925).
The miners were locked out, and voted overwhelmingly for strike action. The
first General Strike In British history began on 4 May 1926 when the TUC
(Trades Union Congress) voted to back the striking miners. There were worries about a Communist
revolution in Britain. On 11 May 1926 the engineering and ship workers
unions called their men out on strike, but at this time negotiations were going
on to end the strike. The TUC agreed to government terms but the miners did
not. The TUC called off the General Strike on 12 May 1926 leaving the miners on
their own. Many trains were run by volunteers, especially undergraduates and
rail enthusiasts, and troops took over the unloading of food at London�s docks
(see 10 May 1926). Students also drove lorries, trams, and buses, the
illegality of this being ignored. On 23 June 1927 the Trades Disputes Act was
passed, outlawing sympathetic strikes. The Trade Union movement suffered a
setback; membership had been falling from a peak of 8.3 million in 1920 to 5.3
million in 1926, and further fell to 4.3 million by 1933. See 12 May 1926.
(2) �Lufthansa
began one of the world�s first passenger night routes, from Berlin to
Konigsberg, using radio beacons.
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30 April 1926, Friday
(-6,948) Cloris Leachman, actress, was born.
28 April 1926, Wednesday (-6,950)
Harper lLe, writer, was born.
26 April 1926, Monday
(-6,952) In the USA, actress Mae West was arrested for �corrupting the
morals of youth� with her play, Sex.
25 April 1926, Sunday
(-6,953) First performance in Milan of Giacomo Puccini�s opera Turandot.
24 April 1926. Saturday (-6,954) Germany
signed a friendship treaty with the USSR.
23 April 1926, Friday (-6,955) JP
Donleavy, author, was born.
21
April 1926. Wednesday (-6,957)
Queen Elizabeth II, crowned 1952,
was born at 17 Bruton Street London. She was then called Elizabeth Alexandra
Mary, the eldest daughter of George VI.
15
April 1926, Thursday (-6,963)
Lord Gerard Fitt, Northern Ireland politician, was born (died 26 August 2005)
11
April 1926, Sunday (-6,967) Luther
Burbank, botanist, died.
9 April 1926, Friday (-6,969) Hugh
Hefner, publisher of Playboy, was born.
8 April 1926, Thursday (-6,970)
Jurgen Moltmann, German theologian, was born.
7 April 1926. Wednesday (-6,971)
(Italy) Mussolini
survived an assassination attempt. Violet Gibson, Irish aristocrat,
shot him but only managed to graze his nose.
6 April 1926, Tuesday (-6,972) (Ireland) The Northern Ireland politician, MP for
Antrim, Ian Paisley was born.
5 April 1926, Monday (-6,973) Stan
Levey, jazz drummer, was born (died 19 April 2005)
4 April 1926, Sunday (-6,974) Easter
Sunday.
3 April 1926, Saturday (-6,975) (1) (Italy) In Italy the Ballilla, a Fascist youth
organisation, was founded.
(2) (Space
exploration) Virgil Grissom, third man in space, was born.
2 April 1926. Friday (-6,976) (India) In India, riots broke out between Hindus and Moslems. On 4 April 1926
martial law was declared in Calcutta.
1
April 1926, Thursday (-6,977)
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31 March 1926, Wednesday (-6,978)
John Fowles, author, was born (died 5 November 2005).
30 March 1926, Tuesday (-6,979) (Space exploration) American physicist
Robert Hutchings Goddard successfully tested the world�s first
liquid-propellant rocket. It reached a height of 56 metres and attained a speed
of 97 kilometres per hour.
28
March 1926, Sunday (-6,981) Pahlan
Ratanji Umrigar, cricketer, was born (died 7 November 2006)
24
March 1926, Wednesday (-6,985) Safeway
opened stores in Maryland, USA.
16
March 1926, Tuesday (-6,993) US
physicist Robert Goddard launched the first liquid fuel rocket, in
Massachusetts. It rose to 12.5 metres.
13 March 1926. Saturday (-6,996) (Germany)
Germany was refused a place on the
League of Nations Council.
12 March 1926, Friday (-6,997)
Freddie Williams, speedway champion, was born.
11 March 1926, Thursday (-6,998) (Ireland) Eamon de Valera resigned as leader of
Sinn Feinn.
9
March 1926, Tuesday (-7,000)
Jerry Ross, US composer, was born in New York (died 11 November 1955 in New
York)
7 March 1926, Sunday (-7,002) Ernst
Ocwirk, Austrian footballer, was born.
6 March 1926. Saturday (-7,003) (1)
Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the US Federal Bank, was born.
(2) Fire
destroyed the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford on Avon. Only a
blackened shell was left.
4
March 1926, Thursday (-7,005) Don
Rendell, jazz musician, was born.
1
March 1926, Monday (-7,008)
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28 February 1926, Sunday (-7,009) The
Selsdon to Woodside railway was electrified. Lewisham to New Beckenham was
electrified. The Bromley North branch was electrified. The Addiscombe branch
was electrified.
27 February 1926, Saturday (-7,010) David H
Hubel, neuroscientist, was born.
25
February 1926, Thursday (-7,012)
Franco became Spain�s youngest General, at age 33.
23
February 1926, Tuesday (-7,014)
18 February 1926, Thursday (-7,019) An Anglo-Persian oil treaty
was signed, giving another 25-year oil exploration contract to the
Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
17 February 1926, Wednesday (-7,020)
Polygamy was prohibited in Turkey.
16 February 1926, Tuesday (-7,021) John
Schlesinger, English actor, was born (died 2003).
14
February 1926, Sunday (-7,023)
12 February 1926. Friday (-7,025) Mussolini outlawed strikes in Italy.
11 February 1926, Thursday (-7,026)
Leslie Nielsen, actor, was born.
10 February 1926, Wednesday (-7,027)
Germany applied to join the League of Nations, Brazil and Spain blocked
Germany�s admission, in protest at the plan to give Germany a seat on the
Council, which they thought they should have instead.
9 February 1926, Tuesday (-7,028) Dr Garret Fitzgerald, Irish
Prime Minister, was born in Dublin.
8 February 1926. Monday (-7,029) Germany applied to join the League of Nations.
7 February 1926, Sunday (-7,030) Enrico
Fermi showed how f8undamenta; particles of matter obeyed the Exclusion
Principle.
6
February 1926, Saturday (-7, 031)
3 February 1926. Wednesday (-7,034) Czech became the official
language of Czechoslovakia.
2 February 1926, Tuesday (-7,035) Giscard D�Estang, French
President, was born.
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30
January 1926. Saturday (-7,038) British troops ended a 7-year
occupation of the Rhineland.
27 January 1926. Wednesday (-7,041) Scottish inventor John
Logie Baird, aged 38, demonstrated the principle of transmitting moving
images by radio. The demonstration was to members of the Royal Institution,
at his workshop in Soho, London. He called this �television�.
26 January 1926, Tuesday (-7,042) The Shipping Forecast was first
broadcast on radio.
25 January 1926, Monday (-7,043) British
surgeon Sir Berkeley Moynihan said cancer of the tongue is partly caused by
smoking.
24 January 1926,Sunday (-7,044) The Week�s Good Cause was first broadcast on radio.
22
January 1926, Friday (-7,046)
21 January 1926, Thursday (-7,047)
Sennar Dam, on the Nile, was completed.
20 January 1926, Wednesday (-7,048) Patricia
Neal, actress, was born.
17
January 1926, Sunday (-7,051) Moira
Shearer, ballerina, was born (died 31 January 2006)
15 January 1926, Friday (-7,053) Maria
Schell, actress, was born.
14 January 1926, Thursday (-7,054)
Warren Mitchell, actor, was born.
13 January 1926, Wednesday (-7,055)
Michael Bond, author, was born,
12 January 1926. Tuesday (-7,056) In Paris, the Pasteur
Institute announced the discovery of an anti-tetanus vaccine.
10
January 1926, Sunday (-7,058) Derek
Hammond-Stroud, operatic baritone singer, was born.
8 January 1926. Friday (-7,060) The new King, Ibn Saud, 43, renamed
Hejaz as Saudi Arabia.
7 January 1926, Thursday (-7,061) The
Royal Academy of Italy was created.
6 January 1926. Wednesday (-7,062) The German airline Lufthansa was founded.
5 January 1926. Tuesday (-7,063) In the UK the Widow's Pension
began to be paid at Post Offices.
4 January 1926, Monday (-7,064) In
Bulgaria a moderate Government took power, and offered an amnesty to all political
prisoners except Communists.
3 January 1926, Sunday (-7,065) In
Greece, Pangalos assumed dictatorial powers; in April 1926 he was elected
President.
1 January 1926, Friday (-7,067) The Nationalist Kuomintang government
was established in southern China.
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21
December 1925. Monday (-7,078) Battleship Potemkin, a film by Sergei Eisenstein, opened in the
USSR.
19 December 1925, Saturday (+7,080) Robert
B Sherman, US songwriter, was born in New York
18 December 1925. Friday (-7,081) Work began on the Mersey Road
Tunnel, Liverpool.� It opened on 18 July 1934.
17 December 1925, Thursday (-7,082) The
siege of Jeddah ended in victory for Ibn Saud.
16 December 1925, Wednesday (-7,083) The League of Nations voted to
uphold the Brussels Line, dividing Mosul villayet, see 21 November 1925, 29
October 1924.
15
December 1925, Tuesday (-7,084)
14 December 1925, Monday (-7,085) First
performance in Berlin of Alban Berg�s opera Wozzeck.
13 December 1925, Sunday (-7,086) Reza Khan
was proclaimed Shah of Iran.
12 December 1925. Saturday (-7,087) The world�s first motel opened
in San Luis Obispo, California, starting a trend for overnight stops by
motorists in individual accommodation.
10
December 1925, Thursday (-7,089)
8 December 1925, Tuesday (-7,091) Sammy Davis Junior, US actor, was born.
7 December 1925, Monday (-7,092) The legislature of the Philippines sent a
petition to the United States Congress demanding independence.
6 December 1925, Sunday (-7,093)
Italy agreed the frontier of Libya with Egypt.
5 December 1925, Saturday (-7,094)
Medina capitulated to Ibn Saud.
4 December 1925, Friday (-7,095) The Italian Chamber of Deputies passed a law
allowing the government to regulate rates of industrial production based on the
needs of the country.
3 December 1925. Thursday (-7,096) Stanley
Baldwin signed an agreement fixing the Northern Irish frontier with the Irish
Free State. See 10 November 1925.
2 December 1925, Wednesday (-7,097) Julie Harris, actress, was born in Grosse
Point, Michigan (died 2013)
1 December 1925, Tuesday (-7,098) The Peace of Locarno was signed (by UK, France, Italy, and
Germany), guaranteeing peace and existing national frontiers in Europe.
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30 November 1925, Monday (-7,099)
The US sent warships to Hankow, China, to stop attacks by Communist Chinese on
foreigners.
29 November 1925, Sunday (-7,100) Parliamentary elections were held in Uruguay.
The National Party won the most seats but various factions of the Colorado
Party formed a majority.
28 November 1925, Saturday (-7.101) The newly-rebuilt Madison Square Garden
indoor arena opened in New York.
27 November 1925, Friday (-7,102) Aristide Briand formed a Government in
France.
26 November 1925, Thursday (-7,103) The Republic of Mongolia was proclaimed,
formally ending the feudal monarchy.
25 November 1925, Wednesday (-7,104) (1) In Turkey, Kemal Ataturk, as part of his
Westernisation program, outlawed the traditional fez and substituted western
hats.
(2) In Britain, 12 Communists arrested in October 1925
were jailed for sedition.
24 November 1925, Tuesday (-7,105) William F. Buckley, Jr, author, was born (died
2008)
23 November 1925, Monday (-7,106) Johnny Mandel, US composer, was born in New
York
22 November 1925, Sunday (+7,107) Paul Painleve resigned as French Prime
Minister when a credit moratorium article in his financial plan was defeated in
the Chamber of Deputies by three votes.
21 November 1925, Saturday (-7,108)
The Permanent Court of International Justice agreed to the Brussels Line,
dividing Mosul villayet, see 29 October 1924, and 16 December 1925.
20 November 1925, Friday (-7,109) British
MPs approved a 4-month prison sentence and �50 fine for drunk-driving.
17
November 1925, Tuesday (-7,112) Rock
Hudson, US actor, was born.
15 November 1925, Sunday (-7,114) In
Ireland the Legion of Mary was founded by Frank Duff, civil servant and former
active member of the Society of St Vincent de Paul, to combat drunkenness,
prostitution, crime and disease. Members went to the poorest parts of Dublin to
advise women living in poverty and degradation.
14 November 1925, Saturday (-7,115) The first Surrealist art exhibition opened
in Paris.
13 November 1925, Friday (-7,116)
The South African Government called for more segregation of Black people.
12 November 1925, Thursday (-7,117) Roman Statkowski, Polish composer,
died aged 65
11 November 1925, Wednesday (-7,118) Gunther Schuller, US composer, was born
in Jackson Heights, New York
10 November 1925, �Tuesday (-7,119) In
Dublin, Eoin McNeill resigned from the boundary commission set up under the
Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 to determine the Northern Irish border, see 10 May 1924.
A leaked report and map in the Morning
Post of 7 November 1925 indicated that, contrary to the expectations of the
Dublin Government, the commission had recommended only very minor changes to
the border. Northern Ireland would lose parts of south Armagh, south-west
Fermanagh and west Tyrone, and gain small parts of Donegal and Monahan.
Overall, Northern Ireland would lose just 1.8% of its population and 3.7% of
its territory. Fearing defeat in the Dail, Irish Government leaders sought
agreement with the London Government to suppress the commission�s report.
Dublin had hoped for a major diminution of Northern Ireland, making it
economically unviable so the remainder of it would have to join the South. See
3 December 1925.
9 November 1925. Monday (-7,120) The
German Schutzstaffel, or Protection Squad (SS), was formed.
8 November 1925, Sunday (-7,121)
The
Democratic Party won a majority in Portuguese elections, gaining 83 of the 163
seats.
7 November 1925, Saturday (-7,122) Mary Duggan,�
cricketer, was born (died 10 March 1973).
6 November 1925, Friday (-7,123)
Khai Dinh, Emperor of Vietnam, died.
5 November 1925. Thursday (-7,124) In
Italy, Mussolini banned all
left-wing parties
4
November 1925, Wednesday (-7,125)
1 November 1925, Sunday (-7,128) The
Buster Keaton film Go West opened.
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31 October 1925, Saturday (-7,129) Persian Majles deposed the
Shah, Sultan Ahmad.
30 October 1925. Friday (-7,130) In his workshop in London, John Logie Baird achieved the first TV pictures using a
dummy�s head. He then persuaded a 15 year old office boy, William Taynton, to
sit in front of the camera to become the first live person captured on TV.
29 October 1925, Thursday (-7,131)
Greek troops withdrew from Bulgaria, on orders from the League of Nations.
25
October 1925, Sunday (-7,135) General
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas seized power in a�
coup. Vargas became President 1/1926.
23 October 1925, Friday (-7,137)
Johnny Carson, TV presenter, was born (died 23 January 2005).
22 October 1925. Thursday (-7,138) Border dispute flared between
Greece and Bulgaria.
20
October 1925, Tuesday (-7,140)
19 October 1925, Monday (-7,141)
Ancient sea shells were discovered in the Sahara Desert, proving it had once
been underwater.
18 October 1925. Sunday (-7,142) French fleet bombards Damascus
following a Druze insurrection that began on 18 July 1925.
17 October 1925, Saturday (-7,143) Harry
Carpenter, broadcaster, was born.
16 October 1925, Friday (-7,144) (1) France and Germany concluded the Locarno
Treaty, guaranteeing their mutual frontier. Italy and Britain also
signed.� Germany reaffirmed its renunciation of Alsace-Lorraine and guaranteed
not to attack France or Belgium.� Russia
feared the Locarno Treaty meant an alliance of western powers against it,
see 24 April 1926.
(2) Britain began regular broadcasts to Continental
Europe, on a weekly basis.
14
October 1925, Wednesday� (-7,146)
13 October 1925, Tuesday (-7,147) Future Conservative leader, Margaret Thatcher, was born as
Margaret Roberts.� She was born in
Grantham, the daughter of a grocer. She was Prime Minister 1979-90.
12 October 1925, Monday (-7,148)
Germany and the USSR signed a commercial treaty.
11 October 1925, Sunday (-7,149) Richard
Burton, Welsh actor who was married to Elizabeth Taylor twice, was born this
day.
10 October 1925, Saturday (-7,150) James
Buchanan Duke, US industrialist, (born in Durham, North Carolina, 23 December 1856)
died in New York.
5
October 1925, Monday (-7,155)
The Locarno Conference opened,
to decide the German border and future of the Rhineland.
3 October 1925, Saturday (-7,157) Gore
Vidal, US writer, was born (died 2012).
2 October 1925, Friday (-7,158) London�s iconic red
double-decker buses went into service. See 9 April 1909.
1 October 1925, Thursday (-7,159)
Christine Pullein-Thompson, children�s author, was born (died 2 December 2005)
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30
September 1925, Wednesday (-7,160)
29 September 1925, Tuesday (-7,161) In Britain, white lines were
to be painted on roads to reduce accidents.
28 September 1925, Monday (-7,162)
Robert Braithwaite, champion shooter, was born.
27 September 1925, Sunday (+7,163)
Construction of the Nurburgring motor racing circuit, Getrmany, began.
25
September 1925, Friday (-7,165) John
Kendall-Carpenter, rugby player, was born (died 23 May 1990).
22
September 1925, Tuesday (-7,168)
William Franklyn, actor, was born (died 31 October 2006)
20
September 1925, Sunday (-7,170) Ananda
Madihol, King of Siam (Thailand) 1935-46, was born in Germany, son of Prince
Mahidol of Songkhla.
16
September 1925, Wednesday (-7,174)
Charles Haughey, Irish Fianna Fail politician and Prime Minister, was born.
14 September 1925, Monday (-7,176) Sandra
Blow, abstract painter, was born (died 22 August 2006)
13 September 1925, Sunday (-7,177) Mel
Torme, US composer, was born in Chicago.
10
September 1925, Thursday (-7,180) Roy
Brown, US composer, was born in New Orleans (died in Pacoima, California, 25
May 1981)
8 September 1925, Tuesday (-7,182)
Peter Sellers, comic TV actor, was born.
7 September 1925. Monday (-7,183) (1)
Laura Ashley, clothes designer, was born (died 1985).
(2) Anti-British
rioters were shot in Shanghai. Protests had begun in May over working
conditions in Japanese owned factories in Shanghai, and British police shot and
killed demonstrating workers on 30 May 1925.
4
September 1925, Friday (-7,186) Elias
Hrawi, President of :Lebanon, was born (died 7 July 2006)
1
September 1925, Tuesday (-7,189) Art
Pepper, US jazz saxophonist, was born in Gardena, California (died 15 June 1982
in Los Angeles)
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30
August 1925, Sunday (-7,191) Donald
O�Connor, US singer, was born in Chicago
27
August 1925, Thursday (-7,194)
Nathaniel Lofthouse, footballer, was born.
20
August 1925. Thursday (-7,201) Rome�s
underground railway opened.
18
August 1925, Tuesday (-7,203)
Terry Allen, British boxer, was born (died 8 April 1987).
16 August 1925. Sunday (-7,205) Charlie
Chaplin�s film Gold Rush was
premiered in America.
15 August 1925, Saturday (-7,206) Oscar
Peterson, jazz pianist, was born.
14
August 1925, Friday (-7,207)
13 August 1925, Thursday (-7,208)
Benny Bailey, jazz trumpeter, was born (died 14 April 2005)
12 August 1925. Wednesday (-7,209)
Norris and Ross McWhirter, the British twins who founded the Guinness Book
of records, were born. After the Bible, it is the best selling book in the
world (2002). Ross McWhirter was murdered by the IRA.
11
August 1925, Tuesday (-7,210)
8 August 1925. Saturday (-7,213) The
first national congress of the Klu Klux Klan opened in Washington, with a big
Klan march.
7 August 1925. Friday (-7,214) The
Summer Time Act in the UK was made permanent. See 17 May 1916.
6 August 1925, Thursday (-7,215) Loretta
Perfectus Walsh, first active-duty woman to serve in the United States Navy,
died aged 29 of tuberculosis.
5 August 1925, Wednesday (-7,216) The first public meeting of
Plaid Cymru, the Welsh Nationalist Party. Founder-member Saunders Lewis planned
a wholly-Welsh-speaking summer school at Machynlleth to open in August 1926.
4 August 1925, Tuesday (-7,217) Noel
Westwood and GL Davies left Perth to complete the first circumnavigation of
Australia by car. The returned to Perth on 30 December 1925.
3
August 1925, Monday (-7,218)
2 August 1925, Sunday (-7,219) Alan
Whicker, widely-travelled TV reporter, was born in Cairo, Egypt.
1 August 1925, Saturday (-7,220) Pam
Gems, playwright, was born.
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31
July 1925, Friday (-7,221)
29 July 1925, Wednesday (-7,223)
Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer, was born in Chios
28 July 1925, Tuesday (-7,224) Juan
Alberto Schiaffino, Uruguayan footballer, was born.
27
July 1925, Monday (-7,225)
26 July 1925, Sunday (-7,226) William
Jennings Bryan, US Democratic Party orator and prosecutor in the Scopes �Monkey
Trial�, born 19 March 1860 in Salem, Illinois, died in Dayton, Tennessee.
25 July 1925. Saturday (-7,227) The
railworker�s, transport, and seamen�s unions supported the mine workers against
pay cuts and longer hours (see 30 June 1925). On 31 July 1925 the UK government
offered a subsidy to the mine owners to enable them to continue with existing
wages. Discussions between the mine owners, mine workers, and a government
commission continued until April 1926 (see 30 April 1926).
24 July 1925. Friday (-7,228) Insulin
(patented 12 June 1922) was first used to successfully treat a patient, 6 year
old Patricia Cheeseman, at Guy�s Hospital London.
22
July 1925, Wednesday (-7,230)
21 July 1925, Tuesday (-7,231) In the USA, John Thomas Scopes was fined
US$100 for teaching Darwin�s Theory of Evolution at a school in Tennessee,
where it was illegal to tech ideas that contradicted the Old Testament. The
conviction was later overturned.
20 July 1925, Monday (-7,232) Jacques Delors, President of the European
commission, was born.
19 July 1925, Sunday (-7,233) Italian cyclist Ottavio Bottecchia won the
Tour de France for the second straight year.
18 July 1925, Saturday (-7,234) Insurrection by the Druze in Syria,
against French rule.
17 July 1925, Friday (-7,235) Lovis Corinth, German painter, died.
16 July 1925, Thursday (-7,236) Iraq�s first elected Parliament met in
Baghdad.
15 July 1925, Wednesday (-7,237) Harry Dean Stanton, actor, was born.
14 July 1925, Tuesday (-7,238) (Aviation)
Captain Girier of France set a new aviation flight length record of 2,930 miles
13 July 1925. Monday (-7,239) French troops begin to withdraw from
the Rhineland.
12 July 1925, Sunday (-7,240) (1) The
first veteran car rally was held, in Munich.
(2) The Herne Hill to Shortlands railway was electrified.
Raynes Park to Effingham Junction via Epson was electrified.
11 July 1925, Saturday (-7,241)
France
and Spain agreed to coordinate their efforts in the Rif War.
10 July 1925, Friday (-7,242) (1) The TASS news agency was founded in Russia.
(2) The Scopes trial began in Dayton Tennessee.� Mr Scopes, a science teacher, was accused of
teaching evolution and so breaching State laws against teaching ideas
contradicting the Bible.� The real issue
was the role of the State in determining the religious nature of school
education.� The outcome was
inconclusive.� Scopes was found guilty on
21 July 1925 but the US$100 penalty was set aside on a technicality.
9 July 1925, Thursday (-7,243)
In Dublin, Oonagh Keogh, 22, became the first female member of a stock
exchange.
7
July 1925, Tuesday (-7,245)
6
July 1925, Monday (-7,246) Bill
Haley, musician, was born.
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30 June 1925. Tuesday (-7,252) The
British mining industry faced a crisis. During 1923 and 1924 German coal
exports had been halved because of French occupation of the Ruhr following a
reparations dispute between France and Germany. Settlement of this, and a
return to the Gold Standard by Britain at a rate which effectively raised UK
export prices by 10% mean that in the first 6 months of 1925 the UK coal
industry made a loss of �2.1 million. On 30 June 1925 the mine workers were
given a month�s notice of the cancellation of a pay award made in 1924 and the
option of returning to an 8 hour day or further wage cuts ranging from 13% to
38%. Even after the 1924 pay rise, miners� wages were very low, in real terms
lower than they had been in 1914. The Miners Union rejected the pay cut and the
longer hours. See 25 July 1925.
29 June 1925. Monday (-7,253) South
Africa passed laws, the Mines and Works Act, excluding �Coloured, Indian, and
Black people from all skilled jobs. In the late 19th century,
skilled mining jobs in South Africa could only be filled by Whites. By the
1920s Black people had acquired the necessary skills for these jobs, and White
employees feared their wages would be undercut, so they lobbied the Government
for these racist laws.
28
June 1925, Sunday (-7,254)
27 June 1925, Saturday (-7,255) Michael
Dummett, British campaigner for racial equality, was born (died 2011).
26 June 1925, Friday (-7,256) Coup
in Greece; General Theodoros Pangalos seized power.
25 June 1925, Thursday (-7,257)
Robert Venturi, architect, was born.
23
June 1925, Tuesday (-7,259)
Miriam Karlin, actress, was born.
21 June 1925, Sunday (-7,261) Maureen
Stapleton, actress, was born (died 13 March 2006)
20 June 1925. Saturday (-7,262) In
Germany, a wireless telephone for cars was demonstrated.
19 June 1925, Friday (-7,263) Bank
robber Everett Bridgewater and two accomplices were arrested in Indianapolis,
Indiana.
18 June 1925. Thursday (-7,264) France
accepted German proposals for a security pact. Hitler�s Mein
Kampf was published.
17 June 1925, Wednesday
(-7,265) Geneva arms Conference closed.
15 June 1925, Monday
(-7,267) Richard Baker, broadcaster, was born
12 June 1925, Friday
(-7,270)
11 June 1925, Thursday
(-7,271) William Styron, author, was born (died 1 November 2006)
8 June 1925, Monday
(-76,274) Barbara Bush, wife of US President Bush, was born.
7 June 1925, Sunday (-7,275)
Karl Weschke, landscape painter, was born (died 20 February 2005).
6 June 1925. Saturday (-7,276) Walter
P Chrysler founded the Chrysler Motor Company in Detroit.
5
June 1925, Friday (-7,277)
3 June 1925, Wednesday (-7,279) The 100,000th Chevrolet was
manufactured.
2 June 1925. Tuesday (-7,280) The
Canadian government claimed all land between Greenland and Alaska up to the
North Pole.
1 June 1925, Monday (-7,281) Danish
hygienists Louis Fridericia and Eiler Holm show that vitamin A deficiency
causes night blindness.
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31 May 1925, Sunday (-7,282) The
Decorative Arts (Art Deco) Exhibition opened in Paris.
30 May 1925. Saturday (-7,283) (1) King
George V opened the Great West Road at Brentford, London. It was seen as
a model for post-War development.
(2) The British colony of Southern Rhodesia became
self-governing; its assembly met for the first time.
28
May 1925, Thursday (-7,285)
Dietrich Fisher Dieskau, baritone singer, was born
26 May 1925, Tuesday (-7,287) George
Adams, US historian (born 3 June 1851) died.
25 May 1925, Monday, (-7,288)
Henry Petrie, US composer, died in Paw Paw, Michigan (born 4 March 1857 in
Bloomington, Illinois)
24 May 1925, Sunday (+7,289) William
Park, golfer, died.
23 May 1925, Saturday (-7,290) British publishing magnate Sir
Edward Hulton died after falling off his penny-farthing bicycle.
22 May 1925, Friday (-7,291) Sir
John French, British general who led the British Expeditionary Force in France
and Belgium, died.
19
May 1925, Tuesday (-7,294) Malcolm
X, US militant Black civil rights leader, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as
Malcolm Little.
14
May 1925, Thursday (-7,299)
Henry Rider Haggard, English writer, died aged 69.
12 May 1925, Tuesday (-7,301)
Alfred, Lord Milner, British statesman, died aged 71.
11 May 1925.
Monday (-7,302) Direct telephone
communication between London and Rome began for the first time.
10 May 1925,
Sunday (-7,303) William
Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand, died.
9
May 1925, Saturday
(-7,304)
8 May 1925,
Friday (-7,305)
Ali Hassan Mwinyi, President of Tanzania, was born.
7 May 1925,
Thursday (-7,306) William Lever,
Viscount Leverhulme, British entrepreneur and founder of the Lever Brothers
corporation, died.
6
May 1925, Wednesday
(-7,207)
5 May 1925, Tuesday
(-7,208) (Biology) John Scopes was arrested. His trial began on 10 July
1925.
4 May 1925,
Monday (-7,309) Geneva Conference on arms
traffic and the use of poison gas in� war
opened.
3 May 1925, Sunday (-7,310)
Robert Jonquet, French footballer, was born.
2 May 1925,
Saturday (-7,311)
1 May 1925.
Friday (-7,312) Cyprus became a British Crown Colony. It had been annexed by
Britain from Turkey in 1914 when Turkey supported Germany in World War One.
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30 April 1925. Thursday (-7,313) The
Distillers Whisky Group was formed.
28
April 1925. Tuesday (-7,315) Britain returned to the Gold Standard.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Winston Churchill, told the House of Commons
he will not renew the Act of 1919 which suspended the Standard. Symbolically,
this measure signalled a return to pre-War stability and a Victorian era in
which Britain was pre-eminent. However Cambridge economist John Maynard Keynes
warned that the USA was not actually adhering to a Gold Standard; it was
manipulating the price of gold, at great expense, to ensure it stayed level
with the US Dollar. For Britain to return to the Standard meant subjugating UK
economic policy to that of the USA.
25 April 1925. Saturday (-7,318) Hindenburg
became President of Germany. He won 48.5% of the popular vote, against 42.5%
for Wilhelm Marx of the Centre Party.
24 April 1925, Friday (-7,319) James
Dickinson, footballer, was born (died 8 November 1982).
22
April 1925, Wednesday (-7,321)
George Cole, actor, was born
20
April 1925, Monday (-7,323)
Herbert
Lawford, tennis champion, died (born 15 May 1851).
16 April 1925. Thursday (-7,327) In Turkey, the Kurdish uprising
ended.
15 April 1925, Wednesday (-7,328)
Sir James Barrie donated the copyright of Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street
Hospital for Sick Children in London.
14 April 1925, Tuesday (-7,329) John Singer Seargant, US painter, died aged
69.
13 April 1925, Monday (-7,330) Henry Ford set up the USA�s first aerial
freight service, running between Detroit and Chicago.
12 April 1925, Sunday (-7,331) Easter Sunday.
11 April 1925, Saturday (-7,332) Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen defeated the French
army in Morocco.
10 April 1925, Friday (-7,333) In France, Paul Painleve became Prime
Minister after the defeat of Edouard Herriot.
9 April 1925, Thursday (-7,334) Tom Jackson, British union leader, was
born.
8 April 1925. Wednesday (-7,335) (1) The
Australian Government and the British Colonial Office offered low interest rate
loans for Britons to emigrate to Australia; the aim was for 450,000 Britons a
year to migrate to Australia over the next 10 years. In the first decade of the
20th century, an average 284,000 Britons emigrated annually, mostly
to the USA or the Dominions.
(2) Italian Catholic bishops banned scantily clad or bare
legged women from churches.
7 April 1925, Tuesday (-7,336) (Biology)
Charles Yanofsky was born in New York City, USA. In 1967 he helped crack the
DNA code for proteins.
6 April 1925. Monday (-7,337) The first in-flight movie was shown;
The Lost World.
5 April 1925, Sunday (-7,338) The Belgian Workers Party won parliamentary
elections.
4 April 1925, Saturday (-7,339) Dorothy Alison, actress, was born.
3 April 1925, Friday (-7,340) Anthony Wedgewood Benn, British
Labour politician, was born.
2 April 1925, Thursday (-7,341) France and Turkey agreed on the autonomy
of Alexandretta.
1 April 1925, Wednesday (-7,342)
(Jewish,
Universities)
The Hebrew University at Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, was opened by Lord Balfour.
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31 March 1925, Tuesday (-7,343) The Philadelphia Daily News began
publication.
30 March 1925, Monday (-7,344)
Rudolf Steiner, Austrian educator who founded the Anthroposophical Society,
died aged 64.
29 March 1925. Sunday (-7,345) Japan passed a Bill for universal male
suffrage.
28 March 1925, Saturday (-7,346) In the Boat Race, the Oxford boat
sank.
27 March 1925, Friday (-7,347) Double Chase won the 84th Grand
National horse race at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England.
26 March 1925, Thursday (-7,348) Hindenburg was elected President of
Germany.
25 March 1925. Wednesday (-7,349) (1) The new fast London-Southend road was opened.
(2) The Tattenham Corner branch line was electrified.
24 March 1925, Tuesday (-7,350) Quazi Nuruzzaman, Bangladeshi guerrilla
commander, was born (died 2011)
23 March 1925. Monday (-7,351) US Tennessee law prohibited the
teaching of evolution.
22 March 1925, Sunday (-7,352)
Radio broadcasting began in Japan.
21 March 1925, Saturday
(-7,353) (Sport) Merle Keagle, US baseball player,
was born.
20 March 1925, Friday (-7,354)
Lord Curzon, British statesman, died aged 66.
19 March 1925. Thursday (-7,355) Britain established a large naval
base at Singapore. This reinforced links with the British colonies such as Hong
Kong, but Japan saw it as a threat.
18 March 1925, Wednesday (-7,356) A series of tornadoes killed 792 and
injured 13,000 in the US Midwest.
15
March 1925, Monday (-7,358)
13 March 1925, Friday (-7,361) British MPs approved the
Summer Time Bill, making annual daylight saving time permanent,
12 March 1925, Thursday (-7,362)
In China, Kuomintang leader Dr Sun Yat Sen died.� General Chiang Kai Shek became the new leader. Discontent within China at
the Unequal Treaties with Western powers grew, and China started a boycott of
British trade and shipping.
6
March 1925, Friday (-7,368)
Michael Ward, doctor, was born (died 7 October 2005)
2
March 1925. Monday (-7,372) Austria
introduced a new currency, the schilling.
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28 February 1925. Saturday (-7,374) (1) Kurdish uprising in Turkey. The rebellion
ended on 16 April 1925.
(2) Friedrich Ebert, Social Democrat President of the
German Republic, died. He had been pilloried buy the extreme Right in Germany
who had accused him of treason since he was appointed in 1919. He was replaced
by war hero Hindenburg (see 25 April 1925).
27 February 1925, Friday (-7,375)
Hitler spoke at a Nazi meeting at a Munich beer hall.
26 February 1925, Thursday (-7,376) Sir
Everton Weekes, cricketer, was born.
25 February 1925, Wednesday (-7,377) Kurdish
rebellion broke out in Turkey.
24 February 1925, Tuesday (-7,378) Joseph
Rowntree, chocolate manufacturer in York, died in that city.
22
February 1925, Sunday (-7,380)
21 February 1925, Saturday (-7,381) The New
Yorker was first published, founded by Harold Ross.
20 February 1925, Friday (-7,382) Robert
Altman, film director, was born
17
February 1925, Tuesday (-7,385) Ron
Goodwin, British composer, was born in Plymouth.
15 February 1925, Sunday (-7,387) Eric
Brown, golfer, was born.
14 February 1925. Saturday (-7,388) The ban on the Nazi Party in Bavaria was
lifted.
10
February 1925, Tuesday (-7,392) Jack
Kyle, rugby player, was born.
8 February 1925, Sunday (-7,394) Jack
Lemmon, actor and film director, was born.
7 February 1925, Saturday (-7,395) Dora
Bryan, actress, was born.
5
February 1925, Thursday (-7,397)
4 February 1925, Wednesday (-7,398) Robert Koldeway, the
archaeologist who excavated Babylon, died.
3 February 1925, Tuesday (-7,399) (Electrical) Oliver Heaviside, English
physicist and electrical engineer, died in Paignton, Devon.
2 February 1925, Monday (-7,400) David
Whitfield, British singer, was born in Hull (died 16 January 1980 in Sydney)
1 February 1925, Sunday (-7,401) Ahmed Bey
Zogu became President of Albania.
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30
January 1925, Friday (-7,403) Jim
Driscoll, boxer, died (born 15 December 1880).
26 January 1925, Monday (-77,407) Paul
Newman, US actor, was born.
25 January 1925, Sunday (-77,408) General
Motors Brazil was organised.
23
January 1925, Friday (-77,410)
21 January 1925, Wednesday (-7,412)
Benny Hill, English comedian, was born in Southampton.
20 January 1925, Tuesday (-7,413)
The UK and China made the Treaty of Peking.
19 January 1925, Monday (-7,414) Nina
Bawden, novelist, was born.
18
January 1925, Sunday (-7,415)
17 January 1925, Saturday (-7,416) US
President Coolidge, in an address to the Society of American newspaper Editors,
stated �The business of America is business� as he set out his policy of
reducing taxes, especially on the middle class. He opposed any write down of
British and French War Debt to the USA.
16 January 1925, Friday (-7,417) Trotsky
was dismissed as Soviet War Commissar.
15 January 1925, Thursday (-7,418) (1) After a month of intense political
negotiations in Germany, Hans Luther (Independent) succeeded Wilhelm Marx as
Chancellor, and Gustav Stresemann became Foreign Minister.
(2) In China, strikes at Shanghai were suppressed by
British and French troops. This sparked revolutionary unrest, and US troops now
arrived to protect their nationals and economic interests.
14 January 1925, Wednesday (-7,419)
Yukio Mishima, writer, was born.
10
January 1925, Saturday (+7,423)
Geoffrey Keighley, cricketer, was born (died 14 June 2005)
7 January 1925, Wednesday (-7,426)
Gerald Durrell, naturalist, was born.
6 January 1925, Tuesday (-7,427) John
DeLorean, car industry entrepreneur, was born (died 19 March 2005)
5 January 1925. Monday (-7,428) Mrs
Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, the first woman Governor in the
USA. This followed the death of her husband.
3
January 1925. Saturday (-7,430) Mussolini assumed full dictatorial control in
Italy.� He nominated his cabinet
on 5 January 1925.
1 January 1925. Thursday (-7,432) Norway�s
capital, Christiana, reverted to its historic name of Oslo.
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30 December 1924, Tuesday (-7,434) Edwin
Hubble reported that Andromeda was a galaxy, like the Milky Way, suggesting the
Universe was far larger than previously believed.
29 December 1924, Monday (-7,435) John D Rockefeller donated US$
1 million to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
28 December 1924, Sunday (-7,436) Milton Obote, President of
Uganda, was born.
24
December 1924. Wednesday (-7440) Albania
was declared a republic.
21 December 1924, Sunday (-7,443) Christy
O�Connor, golf champion, was born.
20 December 1924. Saturday (-7,444) (Germany)
Adolf Hitler was freed from
prison on parole after serving just 8 months of his jail term for high treason.
19
December 1924, Friday (-7,445)
18 December 1924, Thursday (-7,446) Pope Pius XI denounced the USSR.
17 December 1924, Wednesday (-7,447)
Clifton Pugh, artist, was born.
9
December 1924, Tuesday (-7,455)
8 December 1924, Monday (-7,456) (Innovation, Music) The Theremin, the world�s
first electronic musical instrument, was patented in Germany by Lev Sergievitch
Termen, a Russian cellist and electronic engineer, born in St Petersburg in
1896 (died 1993). It worked on the heterodyne principle, that a combination of
two radio high frequency sound waves could combine to produce a lower frequency
audible sound equal to the difference, As the high frequency waves varied, so
did the audible sound. The presence of a human body altered the radio waves,
which was how the machine could produce changing sounds as a hand was waved over
it. The machine was later superseded by the Moog Synthesiser.
7
December 1924, Sunday (-7,457) (Germany)
In German elections, the Communists (45 seats) lost ground to the Social
Democrats (131 seats). The Conservative Nationalists also gained (103 seats)
whilst the Nazis slumped to 14 seats. The Centre Party won 69 seats.
5
December 1924, Friday (-7,459) In
Italy, Mussolini commenced comprehensive press censorship.
3 December 1924, Wednesday (-7,461) (Chemistry)
Louis Marie Hilaire Bernigaud, comte de Chardonnet, French chemist, died in
Paris.
2 December 1924, Tuesday (-7,462) The UK and Germany signed a trade
pact.
1 December 1924, Monday (-7,463) Communists staged a failed coup attempt in
Estonia.
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30 November 1924, Sunday (-7,464) (1) (Germany) The
last French and Belgian troops left the Ruhr.
(2) Radio photographs were first transmitted from Britain
to the USA.
29 November 1924, Saturday (-7,465) The composer Puccini died in Brussels.
28 November 1924, Friday (-7,466) (Arts) Dennis Brutus, activist, educator,
journalist and poet, in was born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (died 2009)
27 November 1924, Thursday (-7,467) The first Macy�s Thanksgiving Parade was
held in New York City.
26 November 1924. Wednesday (-7,468) The Communist party of the USSR
denounced Trotsky.
25 November 1924, Tuesday (-7,469) Louis de Broglie described the wave
particle theory of matter.
24 November 1924, Monday (-7,470) The Egyptian Government resigned under
pressure from Britain, following the assassination of Major General Sir Lee
Stack on 19 November.
23
November 1924, Sunday (-7,471)
21 November 1924, Friday (-7,473) The new Conservative
Government of Britain repudiated a treaty made by the previous Labour
administration with the USSR.
20 November 1924, Thursday (-7,474)
Kurds in Turkey rebelled; they were suppressed with considerable force.
19 November 1924, Wednesday (-7,475) The
British Governor-General of Sudan was assassinated in Cairo. Egypt was claiming
the right to rule the territory.
18
November 1924, Tuesday (-7,476)
16 November 1924, Sunday (-7,478) Edward
Everett Rice, US composer, was born in Brighton, Massachusetts.
15 November 1924, Saturday (-7,479) Jakub
Schikaneder, Bohemian painter, died (born 27 February 1855).
13
November 1924, Thursday (-7,481)
Stanley Hiller Jr, who helped develop the helicopter, was born (died 20 April 2006)
9 November 1924, Sunday (-7,485) Lord John
Ulick Knatchbull Brabourne, film producer, was born (died 22 September 2005)
8 November 1924, Saturday (-7,486) The Irish Government offered
an amnesty to those involved in the civil conflict between IRA and Government.
See 12 January 1922.
7 November 1924, Friday (-7,497) Germany
announced its first balanced budget since the war.
6 November 1924. Thursday (-7,488) The
new Conservative Prime Minister of Britain, Stanley Baldwin, appointed Winston
Churchill as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
5 November 1924, Wednesday (-7,489) The last Manchu Emperor,
Pu-Yi, 18, was evicted from his palace in Beijing by the Christian warlord Feng
Xuyiang who took control of the city. Pu-Yi had been compelled to abdicate in
1912, when he was aged 6, by the Revolutionary Government in Nanking after the
Wuchang uprising, ending 268 years of Manchu rule and over 2000 years of
imperial tradition. He was allowed to continue living in his palace in the
Forbidden City, and was temporarily restored to the throne by General Xun�s
coup in 1917, but was dethroned after 12 days. Pu-Yi now sought refuge in the
Japanese concession at Tien-Tsin.
4 November 1924. Tuesday (-7,490) (1) Texas elected its first woman State Governor.
(2) Calvin Coolidge was re-elected President of the USA
3 November 1924, Monday (-7,491) Feng Yuxiang's troops
entered Tianjin.
2 November 1924. Sunday (-7,492) The
first crossword appeared in a British newspaper, the Sunday Express. It was bought from an American paper, operated by C
W Shepherd, where crosswords had appeared 11 years earlier, see 21 December 1913.
1 November 1924, Saturday (-7,493) (1) Eamon
de Valera was jailed for one month for entering Northern Ireland illegally. He
was a devout Roman Catholic and Britain did not want him proselytising in Protestant
Northern Ireland. See 16 July 1924.
(2) The
British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, London, closed (opened 23 April 1924).
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30
October 1924, Thursday (-7,495)
29 October 1924, Wednesday (-7,496) The Council of Brussels drew
the Brussels Line, dividing the villayet of Mosul into Turkish and Iraqi
areas.� See 21 November 1925, 16,12,1925.
28 October 1924. Tuesday (-7,497) France
recognised the USSR.
27
October 1924, Monday (-7,498)
26 October 1924, Sunday (-7,499) Lew
Dockstader, US singer, died (born 1856).
25 October 1924, Saturday (-7,500) In
China, President Tsao Kun resigned.
20
October 1924, Monday (-7,505) Ibn
Saud seized control of Mecca, defeating the Hashemites.
12
October 1924, Sunday (-7,513) French
writer Anatole France died.
10 October 1924, Friday (-7,515) Ed
Wood, flim producer, was borm.
9 October 1924. Thursday (-7,516) Britain�s minority Labour
government fell after a vote of censure in the Commons; the vote was 364
against the Government, 198 in favour. On 29 October 1924 the Conservatives won
a large victory following a scare over the �Zinoviev letter�. This was a forged
letter allegedly from Moscow, urging a Communist revolution in Britain. A General
Election was held on 30 October 1924 and the result was 413 seats to the
Conservatives, against 151 for Labour and 40 for the Liberals. Stanley Baldwin
became Prime Minister.
7
October 1924, Tuesday (-7,518) The British Labour Party
banned Communists from becoming members.
5 October 1924, Sunday (-7,520) Kenneth
Jack, artist, was born (died 10 June 2006).
4 October 1924, Saturday (-7,521)
Charlton Heston, the film star in Ben Hur,
was born.
3 October 1924, Friday (-7,522) In
Arabia, King Hussein abdicated as King of Hejaz in favour of his son, Ali.
2 October 1924, Thursday (-7,523)
Trotsky took command of the Red Army in Georgia.
1 October 1924. Wednesday (-7,524)
US Democrat and 39th President James Earl (Jimmy) Carter, peanut
farmer, was born in Plains, Georgia.
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30 September 1924, Tuesday (-7,525)
Truman Capote, writer, was born.
29
September 1924, Monday (-7,526)
28 September 1924, Sunday (-7,527)
Lieutenants Smith and Nelson, in US Army Douglas airplanes, completed the first
circumnavigation of the globe.� They flew
a total of 26,103 miles, with 57 stops.
27 September 1924, Saturday (-7,528)
Following Mexican elections, Plutarcho Calles became President of Mexico. He took
office on 1 December 1924.
25
September 1924, Thursday (-7,530)
18 September 1924. Thursday (-7,537) Mohandas
Ghandi, serving 6 years in prison for sedition, began a 21-day hunger strike,
to try and dissuade Hindus and Moslems from rioting.
17 September 1924, Wednesday (-7,538)
Italy abrogated the Treaty of Rapallo (made 12 November 1920).
16 September 1924, Tuesday (-7,539) Lauren
Bacall, Hollywood actress, was born.
15 September 1924, Monday (-7,540) The BBC began broadcasting
from Belfast.
14
September 1924, Sunday (-7,541)
13 September 1924, Saturday (-7,542) Maurice
Jarre, French composer, was born in Lyons
12 September 1924, Friday (-7,543)
George Target, novelist, was born (died 14 December 2005).
7
September 1924, Sunday (-7,548) Leonard
Rosenman, US composer, was born in New York
5
September 1924, Friday (-7,550) In
Chile, a military junta took power.
2 September 1924, Tuesday (-7,553) Daniel Arap Moi, President of
Kenya, was born.
1 September 1924, Monday (-7,554) The
Dawes Plan was implemented in Germany. It was drafted by Charles G Dawes, a
Chicago banker. Under it, a new Reichsmark was issued at one billion old marks.
The Reichsbank was now under Allied control. German reparations were
rescheduled, and the Allied loaned Germany 800 million gold Marks. New taxes
were introduced, and inflation began to subside. Political stability followed,
and support for extremist Parties declined.
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31
August 1924, Sunday (-7,555)
30 August 1924, Saturday (-7,556) The German Reichsbank was made
independent of the government.� It issued
a new currency, the ReichsMark, at 1,000,000 million old Marks to the new
currency.
29 August 1924, Friday (-7,557) Dinah
Washington, US singer, was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama (died14 December 1963 in
Detroit)
25
August 1924, Monday (-7,561)
Heinrich Berte, Hungarian composer, died in Vienna (born 8 May 1858 in Galgocz)
20
August 1924, Wednesday (-7,566)
Jim Reeves, US country singer, was born in Galloway, Texas (died 31 July 1964
in Tennessee)
17 August 1924. Sunday (-7,569) French
and Belgian troops agreed to withdraw from the Ruhr within 1 year following
Germany�s agreement on war reparations.
16 August 1924, Saturday (-7,570) The Allies and Germany
accepted the Dawes Plan, for a revised timetable of reparations.
15
August 1924, Friday (-7,571)
14 August 1924, Thursday (-7,572) Lee
Adams, US musician, was born in Mansfield, Ohio.
13 August 1924, Wednesday (-7,573)
Severe flooding in China, 50,000 killed.
12 August 1924, Tuesday (-7,574)
Derek Shackleton, cricketer, was born.
10
August 1924, Sunday (-7,576)
8 August 1924, Friday (-7,578) A ten-nation summit agreed a
plan drawn up by US banker Charles Dawes, designed to assist Germany�s economy
and fulfil reparation payments.
7 August 1924, Thursday (-7,579)
Kenneth Kendall, broadcaster, was born.
5
August 1924, Tuesday (-7,581)
3 August 1924, Sunday (-7,583)
Polish-born UK author Joseph Conrad died.
2 August 1924, Saturday (-7,584) James
Arthur Baldwin, Us Black writer, was born.
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29
July 1924, Tuesday (-7,588)
Jocelyne Rickards, film costume designer, was born (died 7 July 2005)
25
July 1924, Friday (-7,592) Pierre
Maurice Gy, French chemist, was born in Paris (died 5 November 2015).
23
July 1924, Wednesday (-7,594)
Gavin Lambert, writer, was born (died 17 July 2005)
21 July 1924, Monday (-7,596) Don
Knotts, actor and comedian, was born.
20 July 1924, Sunday (-7,597) Robert D
Maurer, who invented the optical fibre, was born.
19 July 1924. Saturday (-7,598) Liverpool
Cathedral was consecrated, although it was not yet finished. Construction had
begun in 1904.
16
July 1924, Wednesday (-7,601) Eamon de Valera was released
after 11 months in Kilmainham Prison. Hundreds of other activists continued to
be held, many without trial. Free State troops continued to carry out raids and
arrests, causing much bitterness. See 1 November 1924, 8 November 1924.
13
July 1924, Sunday (-7,604) Alfred
Marshall, British economist, died aged 81.
11
July 1924. Friday (-7,606) Hindus
and Muslims rioted in Delhi.
8
July 1924, Tuesday (-7,609)
Adolf Hitler resumed leadership of the Nazi Party.
5 July 1924, Saturday (-7,612) The
8th Olympic games opened in Paris. Germany did not attend.
4 July 1924, Friday (-7,613) Caesar�s
Salad made its debut, at the Caesar�s Place Restaurant, Tihuana, Mexico, owned
by US citizen Caesar Cardini.
3
July 1924, Thursday (-7,614)
2 July 1924, Wednesday (-7,615) Rick
Besoyan, US composer, was born in Reedley, California (died in Sayville, Long
Island, 13 March 1970)
1 July 1924, Tuesday (-7,616)
Inauguration of the first regular transcontinental air mail service in the USA.
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30 June 1924, Monday (-7,617) In
South Africa, J B Hertzog, Nationalist leader, formed a Government with Labour
support, following the defeat of J C Smuts� South African Party in elections.
28
June 1924, Saturday (-7,619) Italian
racing car driver Luigi Musso was born.
25
June 1924, Wednesday (-7,622)
Britain said it would not relinquish control over the Sudan, despite Egyptian
demands for it to do so.
23
June 1924, Monday (-7,624) The
seeding system was introduced for competitors at Wimbledon.
21 June 1924, Saturday (-7,626) Wally
Fawkes, cartoonist, was born.
20 June 1924, Friday (-7,627) Audie
Murphy, writer, was born.
17
June 1924, Tuesday (-7,630) Sir
Edward Downes, conductor, was born.
14 June 1924, Saturday (-7,633) The 10 millionth Ford car was manufactured.
13 June 1924, Friday (-7,634) Gaston Doumergue became the 13th President
of France.
12 June 1924, Thursday (-7,635) George Bush, Republican and US President, was born in Milton,
Massachusetts.
11 June 1924, Wednesday (-7,636) The French President, Millerand, resigned. He had been
accused by the radical Socialist Party leader Edouard Herriot of being too Right-wing, when the President should
be neutral. On 13 June 1924 Gaston
Doumergue became the new French President and on 14 June 1924 Herriot became the new Prime Minister.
10 June 1924, Tuesday (-7,637)
Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti was assassinated by Mussolini�s
fascists. He had replaced Filippo Turati as leader of Italy�s reformed Socialist
Party, and on 30 May 1924 he denounced the Italian elections of April 1924, in
which Mussolini�s Fascists had done well, as fraudulent.
9 June 1924, Monday (-7,638) Ed Farhat, professional wrestler, was born in
Lansing, Michigan (died 2003)
8 June 1924. Sunday (-7,639) George Mallory, on his third attempt to
conquer Everest, was seen for the last time at a point 800 feet from the
summit.
7 June 1924, Saturday (-7.,640) Dolores Gray, US actress, was born in
Chicago (died 2002)
6 June 1924, Friday (-7,641) The German Reichstag approved the Dawes Plan
by a 247�183 vote.
5 June 1924, Thursday (-7,642)
The UK Government appointed a Northern Ireland representative to the Border
Commission, see 10 May 1924.
4 June 1924, Wednesday (-7,643) Anti-government forces in Albania took
Shkoder.
3 June 1924, Tuesday (-7,644)
German novelist Franz Kafka died, aged 40, in a sanatorium at Kierling, near
Vienna, after a seven year battle with tuberculosis.
2 June 1924, Monday (-7,645) The US now allowed indigenous Indians to become
full citizens. Indigenous Indian, Learned Hand, became the first Native
American judge of the US Court of Appeals, serving until 1956.
1 June 1924, Sunday (-7,646) Raymond Poincare resigned as Prime Minister of
France.
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31 May 1924. Saturday (-7,647) China recognised the USSR.
27
May 1924, Tuesday (-7,651)
26 May 1924. Monday (-7,652) The US cut immigration quotas from an annual
3% of the number of that nationality already in the US (enacted 1921) to 2%,
and excluded Japanese citizens entirely. Japan protested.
25 May 1924, Sunday (-7,653) Theodore
F Morse, US composer, died in New York (born 13 April 1873 in Washington DC)
22 May 1924, Thursday (-7,756)
Charles Aznavour, actor, was born.
19 May 1924, Monday (-7,759)
Jeremy Fry, can inventor, was born (died 18 July 2005)
13 May 1924, Tuesday (-7,665) Bea
Arthur, actress, was born
12 May 1924, Monday (-7,666) Tony
Hancock, English comedian, was born (died 1968).
11 May 1924, Sunday (-7,667) In French
elections the Left bloc emerged with the largest number of seats, 287 out of
581.
10 May 1924, Saturday (-7,668) Under the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty (6 December 1921) a Boundary
Commission was to determine the borders of Northern Ireland. The Irish
Government believed that such a commission would give them at least 3 of the 6
Northern counties, and an economically unviable North would then join the
South. Now the Northern Irish Government refused to appoint a member to the
commission. Both the London and Dublin governments could fall over this issue.
However on 5 June 1924 the UK Government appointed a representative for
Northern Ireland. See 20 November 1925.
8
May 1924, Thursday (-7,670) Afrikaans became the official
language of South Africa.
6
May 1924, Tuesday (-7,672)
Patricia Lawford Kennedy, younger sister of President Kennedy, was born (died
17 September 2006)
4 May 1924, Sunday (-7,674) In elections to the German
Parliament (Reichstag), the Nationalists made gains, winning 95 seats, as did
the Communists with 62 seats. The Social Democrats won 100 seats and the Centre
Party had 65 seats. For the first time
the National Socialist (Nazi) Party entered Parliament, with 32 seats.
3 May 1924, Saturday (-7,675) Robert
Kenneth Tyrell, founder of Tyrell Formula One Constructor, was born.
1
May 1924, Thursday (-7,677) MG
registered its octagon logo as a trademark.
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29 April 1924,� Tuesday (-7,679) Zizi Jean Marie, dancer, was born.
28 April 1924, Monday (-7,680) (1) Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia�s first President, was
born in Lubwa.
(2) The US sent troops to Honduras amidst electoral
unrest.
26
April 1924, Saturday (-7,682)
24 April 1924. Thursday (-7,684) Train
ferry service between Harwich and Zeebrugge was opened by King George V.
23 April 1924. Wednesday (-7,685)
King George V opened the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Stadium,
London. It closed on 1 November 1924.
22
April 1924, Tuesday (-7,686)
21 April 1924, Monday (-7,687)
Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (born Lombardy, Italy, 3 October 1859) died in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
20 April 1924, Sunday (-7,688) (1)
Easter Sunday. Turkey continued its modernisation plan, with the abolition of
tithes and the shortening of military service.
(2) The interchange at Camden Town between the City and
South London Lines and the Northern Line to Golders Green, Highgate, came into
use.
18
April 1924, Friday (-7,690)
Clarence �Gatemouth� Brown, musician, was born (died 10 September 2005)
16 April 1924. Wednesday (-7,692)
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film corporation was formed by merger.
15 April 1924, Tuesday (-7,693) The
Japan Times called for a boycott of California if the United States passed the
Immigration Act, putting the blame for the bill on that State.
14 April 1924, Monday (-7,694) Louis
Sullivan, US architect, died in Chicago.
13 April 1924, Sunday (-7,695) Calvin
Coolidge was nominated as US Presidential candidate by the Republican Party
12
April 1924, Saturday (-7,696)
11 April 1924, Friday (-7,697) In
Danish elections, Social Democrats formed a Government after winning 55 seats
to the Liberals 44, Radicals with 20, and Conservatives with 28.
10 April 1924. Thursday (-7,698) The
first crossword puzzle book was published in New York.
6
April 1924. Sunday (-7,702) Mussolini�s
Fascist Party won a sweeping victory in the Italian general election. However
there was widespread voter intimidation so the vote was not free and fair.
4 April 1924, Friday (-7,704) The
BBC broadcast its first radio programmes for schools.
3 April 1924, Thursday (-7,705)
Marlon Brando, US Hollywood actor, was born.
1
April 1924. Tuesday (-7,707) (1) Adolf
Hitler was jailed for 5 years for his part in the abortive Munich beer hall
putsch.
(2) The first gramophone to automatically change records
went on sale, produced by HMV.
(3) Britain�s national airline, Imperial Airways, was
created by amalgamating four smaller aviation companies. These were Handley
Page Transport, Daimler Airway, Instone Airline and British Marine Air
Navigation. These four companies were unprofitable, and the government realised
that, as in other countries, they way forward was a national carrier, with
strong financial support from public funds.
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31 March 1924, Monday (-7,708)
28 March 1924, Friday (-7,711) Total was founded as the Compagnie Fran�aise des P�troles (CFP), the "French Petroleum
Company". Petroleum was seen as vital in the case of a new war with
Germany.
27 March 1924, Thursday
(-7,712) Sarah Vaughan, US singer, was born in Newark, New Jersey (died 3
April 1990 in Los Angeles)
25
March 1924, Tuesday (-7,714) Greece
was proclaimed a Republic, as conformed by plebiscite on 13 April 1924. Admiral
Pavlos Koundouriotis became President.
23
March 1924, Sunday (-7,716) TE
Dunville, British comedian, was born
19
March 1924, Wednesday (-7,720)
Mary Wimbush, actress, was born (died 31 October 2005)
15
March 1924. Saturday (-7,724) The
first Egyptian Parliament opened.
8 March 1924, Saturday (-7,731) Sir
Anthony Caro, sculptor, was born.
7 March 1924, Friday (-7,732) Sir
Eduardo Paolozzi, sculptor, was born (died 22 April 2005).
6
March 1924, Thursday (-7,733)
5 March 1924, Wednesday (-7,734)
Arthur Eddington proposed a relationship between the mass and luminosity of
stars.
4 March 1924, Tuesday (-7,735) Happy Birthday to You, a song written by
two US teachers, the sisters Patty and Mildred Hill, first appeared in print in
a book by Robert H Coleman.
3 March 1924, Monday (-7,736) Mustafa
Kemal formally abolished the caliphate, and exiled all members of the House of
Osman. This ended the Ottoman Dynasty, founded in 1290.
2 March 1924, Sunday (-7,737) The Turkish National Assembly
abolished the caliphate, disestablishing the Islamic religion.
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29
February 1924, Friday (-7,739)
27 February 1924, Wednesday (-7,741)
Trevor Duncan, English composer, was born in Cornwall.
26 February 1924, Tuesday (-7,742) Adolf Hitler was charged with
treason for his part in the abortive
Munich beer hall putsch.
24
February 1924, Sunday (-7,744)
22 February 1924, Friday (-7,746) (Medical) Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt, English
physician, died in Cambridge.
21 February 1924, Thursday (-7,747) Robert Mugabe, President of
Zimbabwe, was born.
20 February 1924, Wednesday (-7,748)
Gloria Vanderbilt, clothing designer and entrepreneur, was born.
19 February 1924, Tuesday (-7,749) Lee
Marvin, actor, was born.
18 February 1924, Monday (-7,750)
15 February 1924, Friday (-7,753) (Aviation) The world�s first �control tower� was
inaugurated at le Bourget Airport, Paris. A tower with a commanding view of the
airport now enabled aircraft movements to be directed by an officer with
binoculars.
14 February 1924, Thursday (-7,754) The
Computing-Tabulating-recording Company (see 15 June 1911) changed its name to
IBM, International Business Machines.
13 February 1924, Wednesday (-7,755)
12 February 1924, Tuesday (-7,756) First performance of George
Gershwin�s Rhapsody in Blue.
11 February 1924, Monday (-7,757) (Medical)
Jacques Loeb, German-US physiologist, died in Hamilton, Bermuda,
9 February 1924, Saturday (-7,759)
8 February 1924. Friday (-7,760) The first execution by gas chamber,
in Carson City�s Nevada State Prison. Chinese gang member Gee John�s execution
took some six minutes after the hydrocyanic gas was introduced.
7 February 1924, Thursday (-7,761) Italy recognised the USSR.
6 February 1924. Wednesday (-7,762) The USA granted full citizenship
to American Indians.
5 February 1924. Tuesday (-7,763) The BBC �pips� or time signals, were
heard for the first time. They were set by a clock at Greenwich.
4 February 1924, Monday (-7,764) Close of the 1st Winter Olympic
Games at Chamonix, France.
3 February 1924, Sunday (-7,765) Woodrow Wilson, Democrat and 28th
President of America from 1913 to 1921, also Nobel Prize winner, died and was
buried in Washington Cathedral.
2 February 1924, Saturday (-7,766) Elfi von Dassanowsky, singer and pianist, was
born in Vienna, Austria (died 2007)
1 February 1924. Friday (-7,767) Britain�s Labour Government
recognised the USSR.
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31 January 1924, Thursday (-7,768) Japanese Prime Minister Kiyoura Keigo
dissolved the National Diet and called for new elections. A brawl broke out
during the morning session over accusations that the government had failed to
protect a train that prominent opposition leaders were riding on when it was
pelted with rocks and timbers
30 January 1924, Wednesday (-7,769) Lloyd Alexander, author, was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (died 2007)
29 January 1924. Tuesday (-7,770) The ice cream cone making machine
was patented by Carl Taylor.
28 January 1924, Monday (-7,771) Campaigning began for a general election in
Italy. Benito Mussolini addressed 10,000 Blackshirts in the Palazzo Venezia in
Rome, predicting complete victory at the polls and declaring that the Fascists were
"ready to kill or die."
27 January 1924. Sunday (-7,772) (1) Mussolini
signed a pact with Yugoslavia, and Italy annexed the free city of Fiume.
(2) Rauf Denktash, Turkish-Cypriot politician, was born,
26 January 1924. Saturday (-7,773) Petrograd was renamed Leningrad.
25 January 1924. Friday (-7,774) The first Winter Olympics were held,
at Chamonix, France.
24 January 1924, Thursday (-7,775) All non-Fascist Trades Unions were banned
in Italy.
23 January 1924, Wednesday (-7,776) Ramsay McDonald formed Britain�s first
Labour Government (without an overall majority). Philip Snowden became
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
22 January 1924. Tuesday (-7,777) The Labour Party won 288 seats
against the Conservatives 266, but had no overall majority as the Liberals held
59. Ramsay MacDonald became Britain�s first Labour Prime Minister, succeeding the Conservative, Stanley
Baldwin. See also 26 July 1945. The first Labour government in Britain was
elected. King George V sent for Ramsay MacDonald (born 12 October 1866)
following the Conservative defeat on a censure motion in the Commons the
previous day. The state of the Commons was then, previous to the election,
Conservative 259 seats, Labour 191, and Liberals 159. Labour secured its first
UK Parliamentary majority on 30 May 1929.
The new Labour government was to prioritise
unemployment; slum clearance and house building would also be tackled.
21 January 1924. Monday (-7,778) �(1) Vladimir Illitch Lenin died,
aged 53. The
middle-class lawyer who made a revolution on behalf of the workers died of a
series of debilitating strokes. A power struggle then ensued between Leon
Trotsky and Joseph Stalin, who won.
(2) The Chinese Kuomintang Congress admitted the
Communists.
20 January 1924, Sunday (-7,779) Legion Ascot motor speedway opened in ||Los
Angeles.
19 January 1924, Saturday (-7,780) Jean-Francois Revel, philosopher, was born
(died 29 April 2006)
18
January 1924, Friday (-7,781)
16 January 1924, Wednesday (-7,783) The BBC broadcast the first
play written specifically for radio, Danger,
by Richard Hughes.
15 January 1924, Tuesday (-7,784)
Michael Davie, author, was born (died 7 December 2005)
13
January 1924, Sunday (-7,786)
12 January 1924, Saturday (-7,787) General
Motors began manufacturing vehicles in Copenhagen; the first time they had made
vehicles outside the USA.
11 January 1924, Friday (-7,788)
Eleutherios Venizelos accepted the Premiership of Greece under the National
Assembly.
10
January 1924, Thursday (-7,789)
9 January 1924, Wednesday (-7,790) In
Germany, Rhineland secessionist leader Heinz was assassinated.
8 January 1924, Tuesday (-7,791) Ron
Moody, actor, was born.
7 January 1924. Monday (-7,792) Direct
communication by transatlantic cable and land wire was opened by the Western
Union Telegraph Company between London and Chicago.
6 January 1924, Sunday (-7,793) Earl
Scruggs, US country banjoist, was born.
1 January 1924, Tuesday (-7,798)
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31
December 1923. Monday (-7,799) The
chimes of Big Ben were broadcast by the BBC for the first time.
28 December 1923. Friday (-7,802) Alexandre
Gustave Eiffel, who designed the 300 metre Eiffel Tower, Paris, died aged 91.
27 December 1923, Thursday (-7,803)
Emperor Hirohito of Japan narrowly escaped assassination.
26 December 1923, Wednesday (-7,804)
Jack Pleasants, British comedian, died in Bradford, Yorkshire (born 17 August 1874
in Bradford)
25
December 1923, Tuesday (-7,805)
23 December 1923, Sunday (-7,807) The BBC began regular radio
broadcasts for entertainment, as opposed to information.
22 December 1923, Saturday (-7,808) John
Ebdon, TV broadcaster, was born (died 19 March 2005)
21
December 1923, Friday (-7,809)
19 December 1923, Wednesday (-7,811) King
George II left Greece at the request of the ruling Revolutionary Committee.
18 December 1923, Tuesday (-7,812) The International Zone of
Tangier was set up.
17 December 1923. Monday (-7,813) The
Greek Army deposed King George II.
15
December 1923, Saturday (-7,815)
12
December 1923, Wednesday (-7,818)
John Pulman, snooker champion, was born.
10 December 1923, Monday (-7,820) The Kraft Company started as
National Dairy Products Corporation (National Dairy), formed on December 10,
1923, by Thomas H. McInnerney.
9 December 1923, Sunday (-7,821) Meggie
Albanesi, British actress, died aged 24.
8 December 1923. Saturday (-7,822) In
the UK 8 women were now MPs. The British general election resulted in a hung
Parliament. The Conservatives, standing on a platform of protectionist tariffs
to reduce unemployment, lost seats, finishing with 258 seats. Labour had 191
seats, and the Liberal had 159 seats.
6
December 1923, Thursday (-7,824) Jim
Eanes, musician, was born (died 21 November 1995).
3 December 1923, Monday (-7,827)
Trevor Bailey, English cricket� champion,
was born.
2 December 1923, Sunday (-7,828) Maria
Callas, Greek-US soprano singer, was born.
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25
November 1923. Sunday (-7,835) The
first transatlantic wireless broadcast from the UK to the USA was made.
20
November 1923, Tuesday (-7,840)
Nadine Gordimer, writer, was born.
18
November 1923, Sunday (-7,842)
Alan Shepard, the first US astronaut in
space, was born in East Derry, New Hampshire.
15 November 1923. Thursday (-7,845) (1) Rampant
German inflation peaked with the Mark worth 4,200,000 Million to the US Dollar,
and 10,000,000 Million to the UK Pound � if you could find anyone willing
to change your marks for dollars. It had been 4.2 to the Dollar in 1914,
350,000 to the pound (1 pound was 5 dollars) on 1 June 1923, and 622,000 to the
pound on 22 June 1923. A loaf of bread cost 63 pfennigs in 1918, and 250 pfennigs
in January 1923. But by July 1923 a loaf cost 3,465 pfennigs, and by November
1923, 201,000 million marks. Workers were paid twice a day and by the evening a
loaf of bread would cost what a house was worth in the morning.
Money had effectively become worthless; trade was done by barter. Middle
class families with cash in the bank had been ruined. The problem had been
that, after French troops occupied the Ruhr to enforce war reparations, the
German Government began to print marks in huge numbers. German industry was
unable to produce the goods� to match the
vast increase in money supply. On 15
November 1923 Germany introduced the Rentemark, tied to the country�s real
estate. Each rentemark was worth 1,000 million old marks.
(2) Poland was also in the grip of hyperinflation, though
not as bad as Germany�s. The Polish mark went from 9.8 to the US$ in November
1918 to 580 by end-December 1920, and to 17,800 to the US$ by December 1922. By
November 1932 the rate stood at 2,300,000 Polish Marks to the US$.
14 November 1923, Wednesday (-7,848)
Italy passed a law stating that the Party winning the greatest number of votes
in an election would automatically receive two thirds of the seats.
13 November 1923, Tuesday (-7,847) In Italy, Mussolini introduced
a Bill giving women the vote.
12 November 1923, Monday (-7,848) In
Germany, Dr Hjalmar Schacht was appointed special commissioner to deal with the
currency problem. By November 1924 Germany�s currency had stabilised again.
11 November 1923, Sunday (-7,849) Robert C.
Murdoch, Australian zoologist and mollusc expert, died aged 72,
10 November 1923, Saturday (-7,850) Robert
Carrier, celebrity chef, was born (died 27 June 2006)
9 November 1923. Friday (-7,851) The Munich beer hall
putsch marked the start of Hitler�s rise to power in Germany. This putsch against the
Bavarian Government failed and Hitler was arrested on 11 November 1923 in a
village outside Munich and imprisoned.�
Hitler then spent several months in prison in Landsberg Am Lech,
Bavaria, where he dictated part of his Mein
Kampf to Rudolf Hess.
8 November 1923, Thursday (-7,852)
Jack St Clair Kilby, scientist who invented the microchip, was born (died 20
June 2005).
6
November 1923, Tuesday (-7,854) (Clothing) The Schick dry shaver the
first practical electric shaver, was patented.
4 November 1923, Sunday (-7,856) Alfred
Heineken, brewer and businessman, was born.
1 November 1923, Thursday (-7,859)
Victoria de los Angeles, soprano singer, was born (died 14 January 2005).
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31 October 1923, Wednesday
(-7,860) A severe heatwave began at Marble Bar, Western Australia. It
lasted for 160 days, with temperatures rising to 37.8 C (100F).
30 October 1923,
Tuesday (-7,861) Andrew Bonar-Law,
Canadian-born UK Prime Minister, died.
29 October 1923.
Monday (-7,862) Mustapha Kemal
proclaimed Turkey a Republic and himself as its first President, called Kemal
Ataturk.
27
October 1923, Saturday (-7,864)
French troops occupied Bonn and Wiesbaden.
24 October 1923,
Wednesday (-7,867) Sir Robin Day, TV
interviewer, was born this day.
23 October 1923,
Tuesday (-7,868)
A Communist uprising occurred in Hamburg.
22 October 1923,
Monday (-7,869) Communists in Hamburg led by
Ernst Thalmann were secretly called on to mobilise.
21 October 1923,
Sunday (-7,870) The
world�s first planetarium opened, in Munich.
19
October 1923, Friday
(-7,872)
18 October 1923,
Thursday (-7,873) Eileen Sheridan, champion
cyclist, was born.
17 October 1923, Wednesday
(-7,874) Reverend Professor Maurice Wiles, religious writer, was born (died
3 June 2005)
16 October 1923, Tuesday
(-7,875) General Francisco Franco of Spain, aged 30, married Maria del
Carmen Polo y Martinez Valdez, aged 23, in Oviedo.
14
October 1923, Sunday (-7,877)
12 October 1923.
Friday (-7,879) The Turkish capital was
officially moved from Istanbul to Ankara.
11 October 1923,
Thursday (-7,880) The German Mark reached 10,000
million to the UK Pound.
10 October 1923.
Wednesday (-7,881) Rhodesia, formerly
administered by the British South African Company, became a self-governing
British colony.
9 October 1923, Tuesday
(-7,882) Donald Sinden, actor, was born.
8
October 1923, Monday
(-7,883)
6 October 1923, Saturday
(-7,885) Soviet agent Mikhail Borodin arrived in China to assist Sun Yat
Sen�s Kuomintang Government.
5 October 1923,
Friday (-7.,886) Jock Stein, footballer, was born (died 11 September 1985).
4 October 1923, Thursday
(-7,887) Charlton Heston, US actor, was born
3
October 1923, Wednesday
(-7,888)
1 October 1923,
Monday (-7,890)
The German mark reached 242,000,000 to the US$
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30 September 1923, Sunday (-7,891) A German uprising in Dusseldorf against French
occupation of The Ruhr.
29 September 1923.
Saturday (-7,892) The British mandate in Palestine
officially began.
28 September 1923.
Friday (-7,893) (1)
Ethiopia joined the League of Nations.
(2)
The Radio Times was first published.
27 September 1923. Thursday (-7,894) Martial
law was proclaimed in Germany, under Article 48 of the Constitution.
26 September 1923, Wednesday (-7,895) The
Commonwealth Conference was held in London. Britain recognised the right of the
dominions to make treaties with foreign powers.
22
September 1923, Saturday (-7,899) Dannie
Abse, writer, was born
17 September 1923, Monday (-7,904) Hank
Williams, musician, was born.
16 September 1923, Sunday (-7,905) Lee Kuan
Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore, was born.
15 September 1923, Saturday (-7,906) As the
German economy deteriorated, the German Bank Rate was raised to 90%.
14 September 1923, Friday (-7,907) In
Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera became dictator, ruling under King Alfonso XIII.
12
September 1923, Wednesday (-7,909) The
garrison at Barcelona mutinied. In response, General Primo, with the approval
of King Alfonso XIII, suspended the constitution and instituted a military
government.
10 September 1923. Monday (-7,911) (Ireland)
The Irish Free State was admitted to the League of Nations.
9 September 1923, Sunday (-7,912) (Medical) Daniel Carleton Gajdusek was born in
Yonkers, New York, USA. In 1966 he succeeded in transferring kuru, a disease of
the central nervous system thought to be spread by cannibalism, to chimpanzees.
This was the first time a viral disease of the central nervous system had been
transferred from humans to another species.
8
September 1923, Saturday (-7,913)
6 September 1923, Thursday (-7,915) King Peter of Yugoslavia was
born.
5 September 1923, Wednesday (-7,916) (Aviation) Sadi Lecointe, France, set a new
aviation altitude record of 35,242 feet.
4 September 1923. Tuesday (-7,917) Birth
of Birmingham politician Lord Howell, Britain�s first Minister for Sport.
3 September 1923, Monday (-7,918)
The US recognised the Mexican government.
2 September 1923, Sunday (-7,919)
Hitler fiercely denounced the Weimar Republic.
1 September 1923. Saturday (-7,920) (Earthquake, Japan)
An earthquake magnitude 7.9 in Japan left the cities of Tokyo and Yokohama in
ruins and killed over 300,000 people. The epicentre was just
outside Tokyo. Half
of Tokyo�s houses were destroyed, a million of its people made homeless, and
132,807 killed in Tokyo alone. Altogether 143,000 died and 2.5 million were
made homeless.
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31 August 1923. Friday (-7,921) Italy
seized the Greek island of Corfu. �This
followed an incident in which an Italian General and 4 members of his staff
were shot whilst determining the Albanian-Greek border on 27 August 1923.� Mussolini saw the incident as a national
insult.� Greece appealed to the League of
Nations on 3 September 1923, and under pressure from France and the UK, Italy
withdrew from Corfu on 27 September 1923.�
Greece was compelled to pay a considerable indemnity to Italy.
29
August 1923, Wednesday (-7,923)
British film director and actor Sir David Attenborough was born.
27
August 1923, Monday (-7,925) (Ireland)
In Irish elections, Cumann na nGaedheal won 63 seats; the anti-Treaty
Republicans won 44 seats.
23 August 1923, Thursday (-7,929) The
last Allied troops left Istanbul..
22 August 1923, Wednesday (-7,930 (Aviation)) Maiden flight of the
Witteman-Lewis� XNBL-1. This long-range
bomber was then the world�s largest plane.
21 August 1923, Tuesday (-7,931) In London, a 7-week
dockworkers strike ended.
19
August 1923, Sunday (-7,933)
17 August 1923. Friday (-7,935) The defence treaty between Japan and
the UK (see 30 January 1902 and 23 August 1914) was replaced by a four power
agreement between the USA, France, Japan, and the UK.
16 August 1923, Thursday (-7,936) (Jewish) Shimon Peres, Prime Minister of Israel 1984-86,
was born in Poland.
15 August 1923, Wednesday (-7,937) (Ireland) Eamon de Valera was arrested by Irish
Free State troops; released 16 July 1924.
14 August 1923, Tuesday (-7,938) 99 miners died in a coal mine
explosion near Kemmerer, Wyoming.
13 August 1923. Monday (-7,939) (Turkey) Mustapha
Kemal, (Ataturk), was elected President of Turkey.
12 August 1923, Sunday (-7,940) Streseman became German Chancellor.
11 August 1923, Saturday (-7,941) The Cuno strikes broke out across
Germany as opposition to Wilhelm Cuno hardened. 35 workers were killed and 100
wounded around the country.
10 August
1923, Friday (-7,942) (Germany)
Civil unrest began in Germany; strikes and riots, until 13 August 1923.
9 August 1923, Thursday (-7,943) (Ireland) In Ireland, the 1923 Land Law Act,
introduced by Agriculture Minister Paul Hogan, reformed landholdings in favour
of tenants. This Act completed the work of William Gladstone, British Prime
Minister, who in 1870 introduced legislation allowing tenant farmers to borrow
two thirds of the price of buying their landholding from the government, to be
repaid with interest over 35 years. Hogan�s Act made compulsory the sale of all
land still owned by landlords. Rents fixed before 1911 were reduced by 35%,
those fixed after 1911 by 30%. All rent arrears pre-1920 were cancelled and
rent arrears post 1920 were reduced by 25%. Current sub-tenants were recognised
as legitimate owners and further subdivision or subletting of land was made
illegal.
8 August 1923, Wednesday (-7,944) Jimmy Witherspoon, US blues singer, was
born in Gurdon, Arkansas.
7 August 1923, Tuesday (-7,945) German Chancellor Wilhelm Cuno
called a conference of the six top party leaders where it was decided to put
the country back on a gold basis.
6 August 1923, Monday (-7,946) (Germany) In
Germany, Gustav Stresemann was appointed Chancellor following the sudden
resignation of Wilhelm Cuno. Stresemann formed a coalition Government.
5 August 1923, Sunday (-7,947) (Singapore) C V Devan Nair, President of Singapore,
was born.
4 August 1923, Saturday (-7,948) (Rail Tunnel)
The Otira Tunnel, New Zealand, 8.563 km long, opened on the
Christchurch-Brunner line, South island.
3 August 1923, Friday (-7,949) (USA) John Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) became 30th
(Republican) President of the USA, going on to win the election of 1924.� He declined to stand for election in 1928 but
retired, just before the Wall Street crash.
2 August 1923, Thursday (-7,950) (USA) Warren Harding, American Republican
and 29th President from 1921, died in San Francisco on return from a
trip to Alaska, aged 57.� The remainder
of his term was completed by Calvin Coolidge.
1 August 1923, Wednesday (-7,951) Yoshinao Nakada, Japanese composer, was born
in Shibuya, Tokyo (died 2000)
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31 July 1923, Tuesday (-7,852) Jimmy Evert, US tennis coach (father of
Chris Evert), was born in Chicago, Illinois (died 2015).
30 July 1923, Monday (-7,953) (Antarctic) The Ross Dependency in Antarctica was
created, under New Zealand rule.
29 July 1923, Sunday (-7,954) Albert Einstein lectured in pacifism in
Berlin.
28 July 1923, Saturday (-7,955) In Australia, New South Wales Premier Sir
George Fuller ceremonially turned the first sod in the construction of the
Sydney Harbour Bridge.
27 July 1923, Friday (-7,956) (Broadcasting)
The BBC radio transmission station at Daventry opened.
26 July 1923, Thursday (-7,957) (Innovation, TV)
John Logie Baird patented a system for transmitting pictures by �mechanical
television�. The transmitter and receiver both had a spinning disc with 24
holes; pictures were sent by photoelectric cells. The principle was the same as
making repeated static images �move� by rapidly flicking the pages of a book;
the persistence of images in the human eye gives the illusion of motion.
Unfortunately the picture quality was mediocre, the flickering gave viewers a
headache, and the intense light needed to film anything was exhausting for the
cast.
25 July 1923, Wednesday (-7,958) (Railway
disasters) 100 killed in Bulgarian train crash.
24 July 1923. Tuesday (-7,959) (Turkey) The
Treaty of Lausanne was signed. This
restored Adrianople to Turkey after the Greco-Turkish was of 1923. Turkey
regained the territories lost after World War One, including the eastern Aegean
and Armenia.
20
July 1923, Friday (-7,963) Francisco �Pancho� Villa,
Mexican revolutionary leader, born 1878, son of a farm worker, was shot dead.
His killers were members of the Herrera family, four of whom Pancho had
executed during the Revolution.
18
July 1923, Wednesday (-7,965) In
Britain, the Matrimonial Causes Act
gave women equality in divorce cases.
16 July 1923. Monday (-7,967) Mussolini banned gambling in Italy.
15 July 1923, Sunday (-7,968) Regular
passenger flights between Moscow and Gorki (Nizhniy-Novgorod), 420 km, began.
13
July 1923, Friday (-7,970) Britain made sales of alcohol
to under-18s illegal.
11 July 1923, Wednesday (-7,972)
Albert Chevalier, British actor, was born in Notting Hill, London.
10 July 1923, Tuesday
(-7,973) All non-Fascist Parties in
Italy were abolished.
7 July 1923, Saturday
(-7,976) (Innovation) John Harwood patented
the first self-winding wristwatch. Self-winding watches already existed but
they were bulky fob-watches. The concept was to use a small swinging weight to
wind the timepiece.
2 July 1923, Monday
(-7,981) London dock workers went on strike (until 21 August 1923).
1 July 1923, Sunday (-7,982) The German Mark reached
160,000 to the US$.� Pre 1914 it had been
4.20; during 1922 the rate fell from 162 to over 7,000 to the US$.
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30 June 1923. Saturday (-7,983) The
Klu Klux Klan claimed to have a million members. Founded after Black slaves
gained freedom in the American Civil War, it gradually widened its targets to
include Jews, Catholics, foreigners; anyone not Protestant and White. It was
disbanded in 1869 but revived in 1915, under its �imperial wizard�, a dentist
called Hiram Evans.
29 June 1923, Friday (-7,984)
Gustav Kerker, composer, died in new York (born 28 February 1857 in Herford, Germany)
28
June 1923, Thursday (-7,985)
27 June 1923, Wednesday (-7,986)
Beth Chatto, horticulturalist, was born
26 June 1923, Tuesday (-7,987) Syd
Lawrence, British bandleader, was born in Shotton, near Chester
22/
June 1923, Friday (-7,991)
16 June 1923, Saturday (-7,997) Ronald
Flockhart, motor racing champion, was born (died 12 April 1962).
15 June 1923. Friday (-7,998) Earthquake
in Iran killed 20,000.
14 June 1923, Thursday (-7,999) (1) ex-Prime Minister Stamboliski of Bulgaria was
shot whilst trying to �escape�. On 9 June 1923 he had been ejected in a coup,
after his policies had antagonised the military.
(2) The New Zealand Air Force was founded.
13 June 1923, Wednesday (-8,000) Li
Yuanhung, President of the Chinese Government in Beijing, was oiusted by
warlord Cao Kun.
12 June 1923, Tuesday (-8,001) Fa�ade was performed at the Aeolian
Hall, London. English poet Edith Sitwell recited her poems to William Walton�s
accompanying music.
11
June 1923, Monday (-8,002)
10 June 1923. Sunday (-8,003) (1) Switzerland and Liechtenstein formed a customs
union.
(2) Robert Maxwell, newspaper owner, was born in
Solotvino, eastern Czechoslovakia, as Ludvick Hoch (died 1991).
9 June 1923, Saturday (-8,004)
In Italy, the Vatican ordered the
Catholic Party to disband, and many of its members joined Mussolini�s Fascist
party. The Catholic Party, or Partito Popolare Italiano (Italian People�s
Party), had been formed in 1919;before then the Vatican had forbidden Catholics
to vote. In Italian elections in 1919 and in 1921 the Catholic Party
received 20% of the vote, second only to the Italian Socialist Party. Following
Mussolini�s victory in 1922 Cardinal Gasparri, the Vatican�s Secretary of
State, made a deal with Mussolini that the Catholic Church would support him;
in return Mussolini would restore the historic privileges of the Catholic
Church in Italy. In 1927 Mussolini was baptised as a Catholic, and in 1929 he
signed the Lateran Treaty, making the Vatican a separate sovereign State. He
also made Catholicism the State religion of Italy, and paid the Vatican 750
million lire as compensation for the Vatican�s loss of the ancient Papal States
territory in Italy.
8 June 1923, Friday (-8,005)
In the UK, wives were now allowed to divorce their husbands for adultery.
6
June 1923, Wednesday (-8,007)
4 June 1923, Monday (-8,009)
In Spain, the Archbishop of Saragossa was murdered.
3 June 1923, Sunday ((-8,010) In
Italy, Mussolini approved a Bill giving women the vote.
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31
May 1923, Thursday (-8,013) Prince
Ranier III, prince of the House of Grimaldi, was born in Monaco.
28 May 1923, Monday (-8,018)
Gyorgy Ligeti, Hungarian composer, was born (died 2006).
27 May 1923. Sunday (-8,017) The inaugural first 24 hours of the Le Mans
car race ended today.
26 May 1923, Saturday (-8,018) The
annual Le Mans 24-hour race for sports cars was first held, on the Sarthe
circuit. The winners, Andre Lagache and Rene Leonard, averaged 57.2 mph.
25 May 1923, Friday (-8,019) The State of Transjordan, now
Jordan, became independent.
24 May 1923, Thursday (-8,020)
Republicans
opposed to the Anglo Irish Treaty of 1921 unconditionally surrendered to the
Irish Free State Government, ending a period of civil conflict within Ireland.
23 May 1923, Wednesday
(-8,021) (Aviation) Sabena airline Belgium, was set up.
22 May 1923. Tuesday (-8,022) Stanley
Baldwin became Conservative Prime Minister after the resignation of Andrew
Bonar Law due to illness. Baldwin was to serve as PM for three terms.� See 23 October 1922.
20
May 1923, Sunday (-8,024) Bonar
Law, UK Prime Minister, resigned due to illness.
17
May 1923, Thursday (-8,027) Sir
Michael Beetham, Marshal of the RAF, was born
15
May 1923, Tuesday (-8,029)
Richard Avedon, photographer, was born.
11
May 1923, Friday (-8,033) (Education-schools) Stowe House public
school, Buckinghamshire, opened.
8
May 1923, Tuesday (-8,036)
Britain protested to Russia about their anti-British propaganda.
3 May 1923, Thursday (-8,041) The
first nonstop flight across the USA was completed, after 27 hours in the air,
when John McCready and Oakley Kelly landed in California.
2 May 1923, Wednesday (-8,042) The BBC radio programme �Woman�s
Hour� began.
1 May 1923, Tuesday (-8,043)
William Steel, footballer, was born (died 13 May 1982).
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30 April 1923. Monday (-8,044) The
US only permitted alcohol consumption on ships 3 miles or more out at sea.
29 April 1923, Sunday (-8,045) Irvin
Kershner, film director, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (died 2010)
28 April 1923. Saturday (-8,046) The
first major sporting event was held at Wembley Stadium; the FA Cup Final.
27 April 1923, Friday (-8,047)
After the death of IRA Chief of Staff
Liam Lynch (see 10 April 1923), Eamon de Valera called off his armed struggle
against the Treaty that partitioned Ireland. Speaking to his Republican followers,
termed �irregulars� or �rebels� by the Irish Free State Government, de Valera
said �Further sacrifice of life would now be in vain. Military victory must be
allowed for to rest for the moment with those who have destroyed the Republic�.
The struggle had taken 4,000 lives and
cost �30 million in damage to property. Republicans had regarded the entire
State apparatus of the Free State government, courts, police, judges, illegal
and therefore legitimate military targets. In turn the Free Government had
reacted with a strong crackdown on the IRA.
26 April 1923, Thursday (-8,048) King
George V, then the Duke of York, married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in
Westminster Abbey.
25 April 1923, Wednesday (-8,049)
Melissa Hayden, ballerina, was born (died 8 August 2006)
24
April 1923, Tuesday (-8,050)
23 April 1923, Monday (-8,051) In
Italy, the Catholic Party quit from Mussolini�s Government.
22 April 1923, Sunday (-8,052) Bettie
Page, pin-up model, was born.
21 April 1923, Saturday (-8,053) John
Mortimer, barrister, was born.
20
April 1923, Friday (-8,054)
19 April 1923, Thursday (-8,055) (USA) The Yankee Stadium, new York, opened.
18 April 1923, Wednesday (-8,056) Yankee
Baseball Stadium opened in The Bronx, New York City. It was the first such
building of its kind, and the name �stadium� was meant to hark back to ancient
Greek athletic arenas.
15
April 1923, Sunday (-8,059)
13
April 1923, Friday (-8,061) Don
Adams, actor, was born.
11 April 1923, Wednesday (-8,063) In
Britain, the Conservative Government suffered a Commons defeat, by 145 votes to
138, on a motion on ex-servicemen.
10 April 1923, Tuesday (-8,064) Liam Lynch, head of the IRA,
died in police custody after being wounded in fighting with Free State troops.
See 27 April 1923.
9 April 1923, Monday (-8,065) (Unions)
The US Supreme Court ruled, in Adkins v Children�s Hospital, ruled that the
minimum wage for women and children adopted in the District of Columbia was
unconstitutional. This was a blow to organised labour.
3
April 1923, Tuesday (-8,071)
1 April 1923, Sunday (-8,073) Easter Sunday.
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31 March 1923, Saturday (-8,074) Rioting German workers at the Krupps
works in Essen in French-occupied Ruhr were shot by French troops.
30 March 1923, Friday (-8,075) Milton Acorn, poet / writer, born in
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (died 1986).
29 March 1923, Thursday (-8,076) (Aviation)
RL Maughan, USA, set a new aviation speed record of 236.59 mph.
28 March 1923, Wednesday (-8,077) The Italian Air Force was created.
27 March 1923, Tuesday (-8,078) (1) The
astronomer and broadcaster Patrick
Moore was born in Pinner.
(2) Sir James Dewar, Scottish scientist, inventor of the
vacuum flask, died aged 80.
26 March 1923. Monday (-8,079) (1) The world�s first inter-urban motorway
opened, in Italy. It was formally opened by the King of Italy on 21/9.1924. It
ran from Milan to Varese and the Lombardy Lakes.
(2) Regular
daily weather forecasts began to be broadcast on BBC radio. See 14 November 1922.
25 March 1923, Sunday (-8,080) (Astronomy)
Kenneth Lynn Franklin was born in Alameda, California. In 1955 he and Burke
detected radio emissions from Jupiter.
24 March 1923. Saturday (-8,081) The salt tax in India was restored.
23 March 1923, Friday (-8,082) Cutty Sark Scotch whisky was
introduced.
22 March 1923, Thursday (-8,083) Marcel Marceau, mime artist, was born.
21 March 1923. Wednesday (-8,084) �Scientists
in Paris claimed smoking is beneficial.
18
March 1923, Sunday (-8,087)
15 March 1923, Thursday (-8,890) Fuad I was proclaimed King of
Egypt.
14 March 1923. Wednesday (-8,891)
The Allies recognised Vilna and East Galicia as Polish.
13
March 1923, Tuesday (-8,092)
12 March 1923, Monday (-8,093) The
foundation stone of the Australian Federal Parliament Building at Canberra was
laid.
11 March 1923, Sunday (-8,094) Louise
Brough, tennis player, was born.
9
March 1923. Friday (-8,096) Vladimir
Illitch Lenin retired from the
Bolshevik leadership of the USSR because of a second stroke.
4 March 1923, Sunday (-8,101) Patrick
Moore, astronomer, was born in Pinner.
3 March 1923.
Saturday (-8,102) The US magazine Time was first published. Republican-leaning, the magazine was to
condense the news for time-pressed Americans, and could be distributed by rail
in a country with no true national newspaper.
2 March 1923, Friday (-8,103) (1) In
Britain the Matrimonial Causes Bill, passed by 231 votes to 27, changed the inequality
whereby a man could divorce his wife simply for adultery, but a woman had to
prove cruelty or desertion as well.
(2) Cardinal
Basil Hume, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster from 1976, was born.
1 March 1923, Thursday (-8,104) The Czechoslovak national
airline, CSA, was set up.
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28 February 1923, Wednesday (-8,105)
Charles Durning, actor, was born.
27 February 1923, Tuesday (-8,106)
Dexter Gordon, US jazz saxophonist, was born in Los Angeles (died 25 April 1990
in Philadelphia)
24
February 1923, Saturday (-8,109) The Flying Scotsman train began
scheduled 4-hour services between Kings Cross, London, and Edinburgh, at a
record 100 mph.
22 February 1923, Thursday (-8,111)
Bleddyn Williams, rugby player, was born.
21 February 1923, Wednesday (-8,112) In Italy the Dean of the
College of Cardinals, Vincenzo Cardinal Vanutelli, said �Mussolini had been
chosen to save the nation and restore her fortune.
19
February 1923, Monday (-8,114) Jeronomo
Gimenez, Spanish composer, died in Madrid (born 10 October 1854 in Seville)
17 February 1923.
Saturday (-8,116) Tutankhamen�s tomb opened by the
Egyptologist Howard Carter. Carter was born in Swaffham, Norfolk, on 9 May 1873,
and joined the British � sponsored archaeological survey of Egypt at the age of
17. He died in London in 1939.
15 February 1923,
Thursday (-8,118) (Aviation)
Sadi Lecointe, France, set a new aviation speed record of 233.03 mph.
13 February 1923,
Tuesday (-8,120) Charles �Chuck�
Yeager, American pilot, first to fly at supersonic speed, was born.
12 February 1923,
Monday (-8,121) Franco Zeffirelli, Italian
film director, was born.
11 February 1923,
Sunday (-8,122) A US intervention army left Honduras.
10 February 1923.
Saturday (-8,123) William Konrad Von Roentgen, German
physicist who discovered X rays in 1895, died.
9 February 1923,
Friday (-8,124) The Soviet national
airline, now called Aeroflot, was established; then known as Dobrolet.
5 February 1923,
Monday (-8,128)
3 February 1923,
Saturday (-8,130) (Ireland)
Arson campaign began in the Irish Free State.
2 February 1923,
Friday (-8,131) (Australia) In Australia, Prime
Minister Hughes was forced to resign. Stanley Bruce formed a coalition
Government from the Nationalist and Country Parties.
1 February 1923.
Thursday (-8,132) Inflation in Germany continued; �1 was
now worth 220,000 Marks. On 2 January 1922 �1 had been worth 30,000 Marks.
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31 January 1923,
Wednesday (-8.133)
Hungary was admitted to the League of Nations.
30 January 1923,
Tuesday (-8,134) Arthur Kinnaird, footballer,
died (born 16 February 1847).
27 January 1923.
Saturday (-8,137) The German Nazi Party held its first
rally, in Munich.
20 January 1923, Saturday
(-8,144) All US troops withdrawn from Germany.
19 January 1923, Friday
(-8,145) Jean Stapleton, actress, was born.
17
January 1923, Wednesday
(-8,147)
16 January 1923, Tuesday (-8,148) Keith Shackleton, artist, was
born.
15 January 1923, Monday (-8,149) Lithuania seized Memel from
the occupying Allied forces.
14 January 1923, Sunday (-8,150) Fascist voluntary militia
officially approved in Italy.
13 January 1923, Saturday (-8,151) The US Senate agreed to take
in 25,000 Armenian orphans.
12 January 1923, �Friday (-8,152) Germany protested at the occupation of the Ruhr
(see 11 January 1923) and ceased all coal reparations shipments to France.� The French erected customs posts and
economically divided the region from the rest of Germany.� This was a serious blow to the German
economy, especially after the loss of the industrial Upper Silesia to
Poland.� The resultant economic disruption hit the German economy and its currency
began to collapse.� See 31 July 1925.
11 January 1923.
Thursday (-8,153) (1)
Germany defaulted on reparations payments (see 26 December 1922), and
French and Belgian troops occupied Essen and The Ruhr.
(2)
Constantine, King of the Hellenes, died of a brain haemorrhage in Palermo (born
2 August 1868).
10 January 1923, Wednesday (-8,154) The last US troops left Germany.
9 January 1923. Tuesday (-8,155) Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand author,
died aged 34.
8 January 1923, Monday (-8,156) John Wardle, cricketer, was born (died 23
July 1985).
7 January 1923, Sunday (-8,157) A White mob destroyed the mainly
Black settlement of Rosewood, Florida.
3
January 1923, Wednesday
(-8,161) Death of Czech satirical writer Jaroslav Hasek.
1 January 1923, Monday (-8,163)
(1) Britain�s railways were regrouped
according to the Railways Act of 1921. The railways had been nationalised
during the War, but ambitious plans for electrification and redevelopment had
been abandoned in favour foa return to private ownership. However the multiple
overlapping companies of pre-War Britain were now organised into four regional
monopolies, the Great Western, the London and North Western, the London and
North eastern, and the Southern.
(2)
A French pilot set a new air speed record of 217 mph.
(3)
100 acres of Ken Wood Estate were bought for the nation to extend Hampstead
Heath.
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30 December 1922.
Saturday (-8,165) Soviet Russia was officially renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics, or USSR.
28
December 1922, Thursday
(-8,167) Stan Lee, comics artist who created Spiderman and The Incredible
Hulk, was born.
24 December 1922,
Sunday (-8,171) (Broadcasting)
The first play written for radio, The
Truth About Father Christmas, was broadcast by the BBC.
23 December 1922,
Saturday (-8,172)
Birth of Helmut Schmidt, German Chancellor.
22 December 1922, Friday (-8,173)
(USA) New York�s last horse-drawn fire engine was
taken out of service.
20 December 1922,
Wednesday (-8,175)
17 December 1922,
Sunday (-8,178) The
last British troops left Dublin.
16 December 1922,
Saturday (-8,179) The Reparation Commission accused
Germany of intentional shortfalls in wood and coal deliveries to France.� See 11 January 1923.
15 December 1922,
Friday (-8,180) Franco-Canadian trade
agreement signed.
14 December 1922, Thursday (-8,181) Royal Dutch Shell struck oil near Lake
Maracaibo.
13 December 1922,
Wednesday (-8,182)
Hannes Hafstein, Prime Minister of Iceland, died.
10 December 1922,
Sunday (-8,185)
8 December 1922, Friday
(-8,187) Lucian Freud, artist, was born
7 December 1922,
Thursday (-8,188) The Northern Ireland
Parliament voted against inclusion in the Irish Free State.
6 December 1922,
Wednesday (-8,189) In Ireland. Tim Healy was
appointed Governor-General.
5 December 1922.
Tuesday (-8,190) The Irish Free State was officially
proclaimed. The last British troops left on 17 December 1922.
4 December 1922, Monday
(-8,191) The Second Central American conference convened in Washington DC. Nicaragua
and Honduras needed arbitration to solve their differences. The USA retained
the right, under the Roosevelt Corollary, to intercede in South American
affairs.
3 December 1922, Sunday (-8,192)
Sven Nykvist, cinematographer, was born (died 20 September 2006)
2 December 1922, Saturday
(-8,193) (Saudi Arabia) Under the Uqair Convention, the Saudi Arabia � Iraq
frontier was settled, but two �neutral zones� were left, one between Iraq and
Saudi Arabia, and another between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. The sovereignty of
three islands in the Gulf, Kubbar, Qaruh and Umm al Mara, was also left
undecided. The administration of these �neutral zones� was not settled until
May 1938. These zones were provisionally divided between the neighbouring
countries in July 1975 but this agreement was not ratified at the time. See 26
December 1981.
1 December 1922,
Friday (-8,194)
Jozef Pilsudski, President of Poland, resigned.
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30
November 1922, Thursday
(-8,195)
28
November 1922. Tuesday (-8,197)
First skywriting achieved.
27 November 1922, Monday (-8,198) Demetrio Castillo Duany, 66,
Cuban revolutionary, soldier and politician, died.
26 November 1922. Sunday (-8,199) (1) The
tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen was discovered by Howard Carter and his patron,
Lord Carnarvon.
(2)
Birth of the American cartoonist Charles Schultz. At an arts instruction school
in St Paul, Minnesota, Schultz asked fellow student Charlie Brown if he could
use his name . He also used Brown�s moon-face looks to create the friendly
loser-kid in the comic strip Peanuts,
which featured in some 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries, translated into 21
languages. Schultz died in Santa Rosa, California, in 2000.
25 November 1922, Saturday (-8,200) The Italian Parliament granted Mussolini
temporary emergency powers to force through reforms.
24 November 1922, Friday (-8,201) In the Irish Free State, leading Republican
Erskine Childers was executed for possession of a firearm.
23 November 1922, Thursday (-8,202) Lord Carnarvon arrived in Egypt to see the
archaeological excavations he was funding..
22 November 1922, Wednesday (-8,203) Wilhelm Cuno succeeded Wirth as German
Chancellor.
21 November 1922.
Tuesday (-8,204) Ramsay MacDonald was
elected leader of the Labour Party.
20 November 1922, Monday (-8,205) John Leach, table tennis champion, was born.
19 November 1922, Sunday (-8,206) Unemployed
hunger marchers demonstrated in Trafalgar Square in London.
18 November 1922, Saturday (-8,207) Marcel Proust, writer, died.
17 November 1922, Friday (-8,208)
Siberia voted for union with the USSR.
16 November 1922.
Thursday (-8,209) In Britain, the
Tories under Bonar Law won the General Election with a majority of 77. The
Conservatives got 345 seats. Labour won 142 to become the main opposition party
for the first time, and the Liberals had 117 seats.
15 November 1922, Wednesday (-8,210) Marcel Proust, French writer, died aged
51.
14 November 1922. Tuesday (-8,211) The British Broadcasting Corporation began daily news broadcasts
from 2LO in The Strand, London. This had formerly been Marconi�s London
broadcasting station. At 6pm the news was read by Arthur Burrows, once at
normal speed and once at slow speed. See 14 February 1922, 18 October 1922 and 26
March 1923.
13 November 1922, Monday (-8,212) Charles Bronson, US actor, was
born.
12 November 1922, Sunday (-8,213) Italy formally annexed Libya.
11 November 1922, Saturday (-8,214) Kurt Vonnegut
Jr, science fiction writer, was born.
10 November 1922, Friday (-8,215) John Crook, British composer, died in London
(born 1852 in Manchester).
9 November 1922, Thursday (+8,214) Dorothy Dandridge, American
actress, singer and dancer, in Cleveland, Ohio (died 1965)
8 November 1922, Wednesday (-8,217) Dr Christian Barnard, South
African surgeon who pioneered heart transplants, was born in Beaufort West,
Cape Province.
7 November 1922. Tuesday (-8,218) In US Congressional elections, the
Republican majority was reduced.
5
November 1922, Sunday (-8,220)
4 November 1922, Saturday (-8,221) Archaeologist
Howard Carter discovered a stairway near the tomb of Ramses II. Excavations now
halted until Howard�s financial backer, Lord Carnarvon, arrived.
3 November 1922, Friday (-8,222) Albert Reynolds, Prime
Minister of Ireland 1992-94, was born.
2 November 1922, Thursday (-8,223) Economic experts opened a
conference in Berlin on the German financial crisis
1 November 1922.
Wednesday (-8,224) (1)
Mustafa Kemal announced a new Turkish Republic.
(2)
The first radio licences went on sale in Britain. They cost 10 shillings (50p).
They were abolished on 1 February 1971. Some people built their own radios;
others bought them from the BBC, costing between �2 and �4, with headphones.
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31 October 1922, Tuesday (-8,225) (1) Mussolini�s supporters organised a mass rally
in Rome.
(2)
Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia, was born.
30 October 1922. Monday (-8,226)
Benito Mussolini took power in Italy.
29 October 1922, Sunday (-8,227) King
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy invited Mussolini to travel to Rome from Milan to
form a government. Mussolini�s Fascist Party had been founded in March 1919,
and was dissolved on 28 July 1943.
28 October 1922,