In this article I continue to casually look at some of the many events that didn’t happen all that long ago from the place in history we are all standing at currently. Of course, as this article ages, the time difference will continue to grow. I have mentioned some other events in some other articles that occurred during the 20th century that I won’t mention here. I mention these particular events described below to just give a simple perspective of time without making this too long. I tried to include relevant, important and interesting events that have some relevance to our times in some way. I describe more events in this article.
Please Note- Wikipedia has been used in descriptions.
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1920
Claude Monet –
Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond, c. 1920,
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Pope Benedict XV is pope.
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1920 Approximate date – The HIV/AIDS pandemic almost certainly originates in Léopoldville, modern-day Kinshasa, the capital of the Belgian Congo
1920 – Van Wyck Brooks‘ The Ordeal of Mark Twain controversially argues that Twain was “a victim of arrested development” with a dual personality. It begins a reassessment of an author seen hitherto mainly as a humorous writer. The 1920s will bring similar reconsideration of many 19th-century American writers, notably Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson.
1920 – Walter Knott (1889–1981) and his wife, Cordelia, sold berries, berry preserves and pies from a roadside stand beside State Route 39, near the small town of Buena Park. This is the origin of Knott’s Berry Farm amusement park.
January 10, 1920 – The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
January 13, 1920 – The New York Times ridicules American rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard,[4] which it will rescind following the launch of Apollo 11 in 1969.
If Professor Goddard’s rocket attains a sufficient speed before it passes out of our atmosphere–which is a thinkable possibility — and if its aiming takes into account all of the many deflective forces that will affect its flight, it may reach the moon. That the rocket could carry enough explosive to make on impact a flash large and bright enough to be seen from earth by the biggest of our telescope — that will be believed when it is done. –Wikisource, the free online library
January 14: In E.C. Segar‘s Thimble Theatre, Castor Oyl makes his debut.
January 17, 1920 – Prohibition in the United States begins, with the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution coming into effect.
January 19, 1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded.
Crystal Eastman (June 25, 1881 – July 28, 1928) was one of the co-founders of the CLB, the predecessor to the ACLU.
January 23, 1920 – The Netherlands refuses to extradite ex-German Emperor Wilhelm II; on May 15 he moves into Huis Doorn in the country where he remains permanently in exile until his death in 1941.
January 30, 1920 – The oldest existing movie of a pro wrestling match is filmed in which Joe Stecher defeats Earl Caddock. It was filmed only to be showed later to cinema audiences.
February 13, 1920 – The Negro National League is formed with former player Rube Foster (September 17, 1879 – December 9, 1930) as its president.
February 14, 1920 – The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
February 17, 1920 – A woman named Anna Anderson tries to commit suicide in Berlin and is taken to a mental hospital where she claims she is Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia.
February 20, 1920
Fatima Seer Jacinta Marto dies.
February 22, 1920 – In Emeryville, California, the first dog racing track to employ an imitation rabbit opens.
February 24, 1920 – Adolf Hitler presents his National Socialist Program in Munich to the German Workers’ Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), which renames itself as the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei).
April 12, 1920
Teresa of the Andes dies.
May 13, 1920 – Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows
and Margaret Mary Alacoque are both canonized.
May 16, 1920– Canonization of Joan of Arc: Over 30,000 people attend the ceremony in Rome, including 140 descendants of Joan of Arc’s family. Pope Benedict XV presides over the rite, for which the interior of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is richly decorated.
May 18, 1920 – Karol Józef Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II) is born.
June 6, 1920 – The Uganda Martyrs including Charles Lwanga (January 1, 1860 – June 3, 1886) and Saint Kizito (1872 – June 3, 1886) are Beatified in Saint Peter’s Basilica, Kingdom of Italy, by Pope Benedict XV.
July 10, 1920 – L. Frank Baum – Glinda of Oz It is the last book of the original Oz series, which, following Baum’s death, was continued by other authors.
June 13, 1920 – The United States Post Office Department rules that children may not be sent via parcel post.
July 30–August 8, 1920 – The 1st World Scout Jamboree is held at Olympia, London.
July 31, 1920 -Irish-born Australian Catholic Archbishop Daniel Mannix is detained on board ship by British authorities off Queenstown and prevented from landing in Ireland or from speaking in the main Irish Catholic communities elsewhere in the United Kingdom.
Also on this date – France prohibits the sale or prescription of contraceptives.
August 14–September 12, 1920 – Main events of the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium (there have been ceremonies and outlying events since April). The Olympic symbols of five interlocking rings and the associated flag are first displayed at the games.
August 18, 1920 – The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, in effect recognizing the right of women to vote.
August 20, 1920 – The first commercial radio station in the United States, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit. It is owned by the Detroit News, the first U.S. radio station owned by a newspaper.
September 1, 1920 – One Week Buster Keaton‘s first independent film production he released on his own. In 2008, One Week was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
September 3, 1920 – Way Down East, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess
September 5, 1920 – Mahatma Gandhi launches the Non-Cooperation Movement in India, with the goal of obtaining independence from British rule.
September 29, 1920 – The first domestic radio sets come to stores in the United States; a Westinghouse radio costs $10.
October – English writer Agatha Christie‘s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, appears in the U.S., introducing her long-running Belgian detective character Hercule Poirot in the setting of an English country house. (The book is published in the U.K. in 1921.)
October 4, 1920 – The Mannerheim League for Child Welfare, a Finnish non-governmental organization, is founded on the initiative of Sophie Mannerheim.
October 5, 1920 -Pope Benedict XV proclaimed Ephrem* a Doctor of the Church (“Doctor of the Syrians”).
October 25, 1920 –Hugh Lofting – The Story of Doctor Dolittle is the first of his Doctor Dolittle books, a series of children’s novels about a man who learns to talk to animals and becomes their champion around the world. It was one of the novels in the series which was adapted into the 1967 film Doctor Dolittle.
November 2, 1920 – The first broadcast is made by the first commercially-licensed radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh.
Also on this date – 1920 United States presidential election: Republican U.S. senator Warren G. Harding defeats Democratic governor of Ohio James M. Cox and Socialist Eugene V. Debs, in the first national U.S. election in which women have the right to vote.
November 21, 1920 – Irish War of Independence: Bloody Sunday – The Irish Republican Army (IRA), on the instructions of Michael Collins, shoot dead the “Cairo gang”, 14 British undercover agents in Dublin, most in their homes. Later this day in retaliation, the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary open fire on a crowd at a Gaelic Athletic Association football match in Croke Park, resulting in 14 deaths with 60 wounded.[11][27] Three men are shot this night in Dublin Castle “while trying to escape”.
November 27, 1920 – The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks, opens.
December 1920 -The so-called Spanish flu pandemic ends with an estimated total of between seventeen and fifty million dead since 1918. It would be the last global pandemic until the 2009 swine flu pandemic almost 90 years later.
December 1, 1920 – The Mexican Revolution effectively ends with a new regime coming to power.
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1921 – “Wang Wang Blues” -US Billboard 1921 #1, US #1 for 6 weeks, 17 total weeks, 457,000 sold 1921, later RCA Victor announced 1,000,000.
1921 – The Man Who Saw A.D. 3906? Paul Amadeus Dienach, a Swiss-Austrian teacher with fragile health, falls into a one-year-long coma. During this time, his consciousness slides into the future and enters the body of another man in 3906 A.D. When Dienach awakens from his coma, he finds himself back in 1922. Knowing that he doesn’t have much time left, he writes a diary, recording whatever he could remember from his amazing experience
January 2, 1921 –R.U.R. is a 1920 science-fiction play by the Czech writer Karel Čapek. “R.U.R.” stands for Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum’s Universal Robots, a phrase that has been used as a subtitle in English versions). The play had its world premiere on this date in Hradec Králové; it introduced the word “robot” to the English language and to science fiction as a whole.
Also on this date – The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in Brazil.
January 10, 1921 – Saints, Blobs, and Instaprams Eileen Rosaline O’Connor(February 19, 1892 – January 10, 1921) dies. She was an Australian Roman Catholic and the co-founder of the Society of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor (1913) – also known as the Brown Nurses – to provide free nursing services to the poor. O’Connor had been lauded as a saint in the decades after her death and there were calls for her beatification process to be introduced. Initial steps were taken in 1974 and additional steps in 2018 in order to launch the official investigation into her reputation for holiness. She would be Australia’s 2nd saint. The first is St. Mary Helen MacKillop RSJ, aka. Mary of the Cross, (January 15, 1842 – August 8, 1909)
January 17, 1921 – The first recorded public performance of the illusion of “sawing a woman in half” is given by English stage magician P. T. Selbit at the Finsbury Park Empire variety theatre in London.
January 21, 1921 – The silent comedy drama The Kid, written by, produced by, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin (in his Tramp character) – his first full-length film as a director – and featuring Jackie Coogan, is released in the United States. It is the year’s second-highest-grossing film.
March 17, 1921
My Father, Harold Patrick Wilson was born.
April 30, 1921 – In praeclara summorum – (Among the many celebrated) is the eleventh encyclical of Pope Benedict XV, published for the occasion of the sixth centenary of the death of Dante and is dedicated to the memory of the poet.
May 5, 1921 -London Schedule of Payments sets out the World War I reparations payable by the German Weimar Republic and other countries considered successors to the Central Powers – 132 billion gold marks ($33 billion), in annual installments of 2.5 billion.
Also on this date – Chanel No. 5 perfume launched by Coco Chanel.
May 31–June 1, 1921 – Tulsa Race Massacre (Greenwood Massacre): Mobs of white residents attack black residents and businesses in Greenwood District, Tulsa, Oklahoma. The official death toll is 36, but later investigations suggest an actual figure between 100 and 300. 1,250 homes are destroyed and roughly 6,000 African Americans imprisoned in one of the worst incidents of mass racial violence in the United States.
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June 3, 1921 – The death penalty is abolished in Sweden.
July 1, 1921 -The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is founded.
July 29, 1921 – Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of the Nazi Party in Germany.
August 5, 1921 – The first radio baseball game is broadcast: Harold Arlin announces the Pirates-Phillies game from Forbes Field over Westinghouse KDKA in Pittsburgh.
September 8, 1921 – Margaret Gorman, 16, wins the Golden Mermaid trophy at a beauty pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey; officials later dub her the first Miss America.
October 5, 1921 -The World Series baseball game in North America is first broadcast on the radio, by Newark, New Jersey, station WJZ, Pittsburgh station KDKA, and a group of other commercial and amateur stations throughout the eastern United States.
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October 8, 1921 – The first Sweetest Day is staged in Cleveland, Ohio. It is a holiday that is celebrated in the Midwestern United States, in parts of the Northeastern United States, in Arizona, and in Florida on the third Saturday in October. It is a day to share romantic deeds or expressions, and acts of charity and kindness. Sweetest Day has also been referred to as a “Hallmark holiday” or a “concocted promotion” created by the candy industry solely to increase sales of sweets.
October 21, 1921 – George Melford‘s silent film The Sheik, which enhances leading actor Rudolph Valentino‘s international reputation as a Latin lover, is premiered in Los Angeles. Within the first year of its release, it exceeds $1 million in ticket sales.
December 6, 1921 -The Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the Irish Free State, an independent nation incorporating 26 of Ireland’s 32 counties, is signed in London.
Nobel Prize –Physics – Albert Einstein – awarded 1922
November 1921– Hyperinflation is rampant in Germany, where 263 marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar, more than 20 times greater than the 12 marks needed in April 1919.
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1922
unknown date – The first Newbery Medal for authors of distinguished children’s books is awarded by the American Library Association to Hendrik Willem van Loon for The Story of Mankind (1921).
1922 – Ken Williams (June 28, 1890 – January 22, 1959) became the first player in MLB history to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in the same season.
1922 – Gummy Bears candy is first sold.
1922 – Francis William “Frank” Epperson (1894–1983) introduces Popsicles at a fireman’s ball, where according to reports it was “a sensation”.
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1922 – Winchester Mansion Questions The Winchester Mystery House is a mansion in San Jose, California, that was once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of firearms magnate William Wirt Winchester. The house became a tourist attraction nine months after Winchester’s death in 1922. The Victorian and Gothic-style mansion is renowned for its size and its architectural curiosities.
It is sometimes claimed to be one of the “most haunted places in the world”, but there is no evidence to support this belief. Much of the lore regarding the Winchester House and its owner is fanciful, unverified, and often provably false.
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January 11, 1922 – The first successful insulin treatment of diabetes is made, by Frederick Banting in Toro.
February 6, 1922 – Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) succeeds Pope Benedict XV, to become the 259th pope.
March 18, 1922 – In British India, Mahatma Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for sedition (he serves only two).
April 3, 1922 – Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party.
April 7, 1922 – 1922 Picardie mid-air collision: The first midair collision between airliners occurs, between a Daimler Airway de Havilland DH.18 and a Grands Express Aériens Farman Goliath over Poix-de-Picardie, Amiens, France.
April 24, 1922 – The first portion of the Imperial Wireless Chain, a strategic international wireless telegraphy network created to link the British Empire, is opened, from the UK to Egypt.
May 18, 1922 – Sergei Diaghilev, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Erik Satie and Clive Bell dine together at the Hotel Majestic in Paris, their only joint meeting.
May 19,1922 – The All-Russian Young Pioneer Organization is established.
May 23, 1922 – Abie’s Irish Rose a popular comedy by Anne Nichols premiers as a Broadway play. It has become familiar through repeated stage productions, films and radio programs. The basic premise involves an Irish Catholic girl and a young Jewish man who marry despite the objections of their families.
May 24–29, 1922 – 26th Eucharistic congress in 
Rome – Theme: The Peaceful Reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Eucharist – Pope Pius XI officiated the Mass at the St. Peter’s Square; first congress after World War I.
May 30, 1922 – In Washington, D.C., United States, the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
June 11, 1922 – Robert J. Flaherty‘s Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, is premiered in the U.S.
June 28, 1922 – May 24, 1923 – Irish Civil War.
July 1922 – Hyperinflation in Germany means that 563 marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar – more than double the 263 needed eight months before, dwarfing the mere 12 needed in April 1919, and even the 47 needed in December of that year.
July 11, 1922 – The Hollywood Bowl open-air music venue opens.
August 1922 – Hyperinflation in Germany sees the value of the Papiermark against the dollar rise to 1,000.
The last hunted California grizzly bear is shot.
August 22, 1922 – Irish Civil War: General Michael Collins is assassinated in West Cork.
September 10, 1922 – First Our Gang (Little Rascals) ‘One Terrible Day’ short is released.
September 13 – September 22, 1922 – The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
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October 15, 1922 – T. S. Eliot establishes The Criterion magazine, containing the first publication of his poem The Waste Land. This first appears in the United States later this month in The Dial (dated November 1), and is first published complete with notes in book form, by Boni and Liveright in New York in December.
October 18, 1922 – Robin Hood, directed by Allan Dwan, starring Douglas Fairbanks and Wallace Beery
Also on this date -The British Broadcasting Company is formed.
October 28, 1922 -In Italy, the March on Rome brings the National Fascist Party and Benito Mussolini to power. Italy begins a period of dictatorship that lasts until the end of the Second World War.
October 31, 1922 – Benito Mussolini, 39, becomes the youngest ever Prime Minister of Italy.
November 4, 1922 – Discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun: in Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to the pharaonic tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings.
Today some folks are very concerned about getting vaccinated.
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November 13, 1922 – The United States Supreme Court upholds mandatory vaccinations for public school students in Zucht v. King.
Justice Louis Brandeis wrote for the unanimous court that requiring students to be vaccinated was a justified use of “police power” to maintain public health and safety.
Brandeis invoked a previous decision, Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905), in which the Court upheld the authority of the states to enforce compulsory vaccination laws.
November 12, 1922 – Sigma Gamma Rho (ΣΓΡ) Sorority, Incorporated is founded by seven educators in Indianapolis, Indiana. The group becomes an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter is granted to the Alpha chapter at Butler University in Indianapolis.
November 26, 1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to see inside KV62, the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, in over 3,000 years.
December 1922 – The year ends with hyperinflation showing no sign of slowing down in Germany, with 7,000 marks now needed to buy a single American dollar.[
December 6, 1922 – The Irish Free State officially comes into existence. George V becomes the Free State’s monarch. Tim Healy is appointed first Governor-General of the Irish Free State, and W. T. Cosgrave.
December 29, 1922, – January 1927 – Aloha Wanderwel begins her journey as the the first woman to drive around the world in a Model T Ford.
December 30, 1922 – Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasian Republic (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) come together to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
1922 – Margery Williams – The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real[
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1923 -Dr. R.R. Brown began a radio broadcast that grew to reach a national audience of more than half a million. The broadcast continued for the next 53 years, becoming the longest continuous radio program on any one station in the world. History — Christ Community Church (cccomaha.org) His great-grandson would grow up to create Veggie Tales Phil Vischer (born June 16, 1966).
1923 -Norwegian skier, Erling Heistad – (skihall.com) (1897-1967) dreamed that every child and outdoor enthusiast in the area could have a ski jump close to their home. Storrs Hill began as a simple ski jump on a small hill but became a cornerstone of the local community in no time. Located in Lebanon, New Hampshire holds the record for the third oldest ski resort in the United States. Over the years, Storrs Hill has produced multiple world-renowned skiers such as Mikaela Shiffrin, Brian Welch, and Nick Alexander.
February 5, 1923 – Australian cricketer Bill Ponsford makes 429 runs to break the world record for the highest first-class cricket score for the first time in his third match at this level, at Melbourne Cricket Ground, giving the Victoria cricket team an innings total of 1,059.
March 3, 1923 – The first issue of TIME magazine is published.
March 9, 1923 – Vladimir Lenin suffers his third stroke, which renders him bedridden and unable to speak; consequently he retires from his position as Chairman of the Soviet government.
March 23, 1923 – “Yes! We Have No Bananas” by Billy Jones
April 1, 1923 -Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last! is released.
April 4, 1923 – Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. incorporated in the United States.
April 26, 1923 – Wedding of Prince Albert, Duke of York, and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon: The future King George VI of the United Kingdom marries the future Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in Westminster Abbey.
April 28, 1923 – The original Wembley Stadium in London, England, opens its doors to the public for the first time, staging the FA Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United.
May 24, 1923 – The Irish Civil War ends.
June 24, 1923, – July 22, 1923 – The 1923 Tour de France was the 17th edition of the Tour de France. It consisted of 15 stages over 5386 km, ridden at an average speed of 24.233 km/h.[1] The race was won by Henri Pélissier with a convincing half-hour lead to his next opponent, Italian Ottavio Bottecchia. In total, 139 cyclists entered the race, of which 48 finished. Pélissier’s victory was the first French victory since 1911, as the Tour de France had been dominated by Belgian cyclists since then.
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July 13, 1923 – The Hollywood Sign is inaugurated in California (originally reading Hollywoodland).
August 2, 1923 – Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th president of the United States, upon the death of President Warren G. Harding in San Francisco.
September 8, 1923 – Honda Point disaster: Nine United States Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. This was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships in history. Twenty-three sailors died; 745 were rescued.
October 16, 1923 – Brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney establish Disney Brothers Studio (later to be known as Walt Disney Productions).
October 25, 1923 – Vegemite is first sold in stores. It is a brand of a thick, dark brown Australian food spread made from leftover brewers’ yeast extract with various vegetable and spice additives. It was developed by Cyril Callister in Melbourne, Victoria, for the Fred Walker Company.
November 8, 1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Bavarian government; police and troops crush the attempt the next day in one of several significant events on November 9 in German history. 20 people die as a result of associated violence.
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November 15, 1923 – Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic: Hyperinflation in Germany reaches its height. One United States dollar is worth 4,200,000,000,000 Papiermark (4.2 trillion on the short scale). Gustav Stresemann abolishes the old currency and replaces it with the Rentenmark, at an exchange rate of one Rentenmark to 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion on the short scale) Papiermark (effective November 20).
1923– The Exodus! The Ten Commandments is a American silent religious epic film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille that is now in Public Domain. DeMille would later go on to remake The Ten Commandments in 1956.
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January 25, 1924
The first Winter Olympics, the 1924 Winter Olympics, open in Chamonix, in the French Alps. Charles Jewtraw (May 5, 1900 – January 26, 1996) was an American speed skater, who won the first gold medal (in the 500 m) at the first Winter Olympics
January 26, 1924 – Petrograd in the Soviet Union is renamed Leningrad; it will revert to Saint Petersburg in 1991.
February 5, 1924 – GMT: A radio time signal is broadcast for the first time, from the Royal Greenwich Observatory. It played a major role in the history of astronomy and navigation, and because the Prime Meridian passed through it, it gave its name to Greenwich Mean Time, the precursor to today’s Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
February 14, 1924 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), based in the U.S. state of New York, is renamed International Business Machines (IBM).
February 12, 1924 – An Experiment In Modern Music concert at Aeolian Hall (Manhattan) – premiere of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
February 22, 1924 –Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
March 3, 1924 – The Ottoman Caliphate, a remnant of the Ottoman monarchy abolished on November 1, 1922, and one of the historical claims of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad, comes to an end with the deposition of the Caliph of the Ottoman dynasty. This marks the end of an era, giving way to the drastic political transformations of Turkey introduced by reforms because of the President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
April 1, 1924 – Adolf Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in Landsberg Prison in Germany for his participation in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch (he serves less than 9 months).
The first revenue flight for Belgium’s Sabena Airlines takes place.
April 21, 1924 – Sherlock Jr., a Buster Keaton film
May 10, 1924 – In the United States, J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
May 11, 1924 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by the merging of companies owned by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz.
May 30, 1924 – Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti speaks out against Fascism. A few days later he is kidnapped and murdered in Rome.
June 2, 1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
June 5, 1924 – Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean,[23] which goes to his father in Sweden.
June 28, 1924 – The 1924 Lorain–Sandusky tornado was a deadly F4 tornado which struck the towns of Sandusky and Lorain, Ohio, It remains the deadliest single tornado ever recorded in Ohio history, killing more people than the 1974 Xenia and 1985 Niles-Wheatland tornadoes combined.
July 5, 1924 – July 27, 1924 – 1924 Summer Olympics – The British runners Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell won the 100 m and the 400 m events, respectively. Liddell refused to compete in the 100-metre sprint because it was held on a Sunday, and he was an observant Christian. Their stories were depicted in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. In addition, Douglas Lowe won the 800-metre competition.
Jul 22–27, 1924 – 27th Eucharistic congress in 
Amsterdam – Theme: The Eucharist and Holland – Cardinal Van Rossum was the papal legate.
August 5, 1924 – Harold Gray‘s Little Orphan Annie makes its debut.
September 20, 1924 – The Nuns of the Battlefield monument by Jerome Connor was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
100 Years Ago
1925
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January 27–February 1, 1925 – The 1925 serum run to Nome (the “Great Race of Mercy”) relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. Territory of Alaska to combat an epidemic.
March 10, 1925 -The Milky Way trademark was registered in the U.S., claiming a first-use date of 1922.
May 17, 1925 – Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face or St. Thérèse of Lisieux or St. Thérèse the Little Flowerwas canonized by Pope Pius XI.
June 25, 1925 – American actress, June Lockhart (June 25, 1925 – October 23, 2025) was born.
June 26, 1925 – The Gold Rush starring Charlie Chaplin is released.
July 4th, 1925 -Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, (April 6, 1901 – July 4, 1925) died.
December 13, 1925 – Dick Van Dyke is born.
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1926
St. John of the Cross is declared a Doctor of the Church.
1926 – The third Fr. Brown collection The Incredulity of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton is released.
1926 – William Douglas Burden led an expedition was to the Island of Komodo in the Dutch East Indies. Along with his first wife Catherine and their party, he went looking for the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), which the New York Times called a “fierce direct descendant of the dinosaur”. By using sapling traps baited with buffalo meat, Burden was the first “white man” to find and trap the giant lizards which weighed 350 pounds and were approximately 10 feet long.
1926 – The Harlem Globetrotters originated in 1926 at the Giles American Legion Post # 87, on the South Side of Chicago, where all the original players were raised and went to Wendell Phillips High school in the Bronzeville neighborhood. They are an American exhibition basketball team. Abraham Michael Saperstein (Yiddish: אברהם מיכאל סאפערשטיין; July 4, 1902 – March 15, 1966) was the founder, owner and earliest coach of the Harlem Globetrotters.
They combine athleticism, theater, entertainment, and comedy in their style of play. Over the years, they have played more than 26,000 exhibition games in 124 countries and territories, mostly against deliberately ineffective opponents, such as the Washington Generals (1953–1995, 2007-2015, 2017-present) and the New York Nationals (1995–2006). The team’s signature song is Brother Bones‘ whistled version of “Sweet Georgia Brown“, and their mascot is an anthropomorphized globe named “Globie”. The team is owned by Herschend.
January 7, 1926 – The comedy team of Burns and Allen was created as vaudevillians Gracie Allen and George Burns married by a justice of the peace in Cleveland, Ohio.
January 8, 1926 – Three brothers, Herman, Henry and Hillel Hassenfeld incorporated the Hassenfeld Brothers company, initially to manufacture school supplies. The company would eventually begin making toys, under the name Hasbro.
January 9, 1926 – A band of 20 Mexican rebels, under the command of Colonel Manuel Núñez, opened fire aboard a train traveling from Guadalajara to Mexico City, then looted and burned the cars.
January 14, 1926 – A total solar eclipse took place that was visible in the Southern Hemisphere from French Equatorial Africa (corresponding to the Central African Republic and the British colonies of Uganda, Kenya and the Sudan, as well as Italian Somalia, the Seychelles islands, the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), Sarawak and North Borneo (in Malaysia) and the Philippines. Scientists gathered in Sumatra to perform observational experiments, including an evaluation of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity
January 15, 1926 – The film The Sea Beast, starring John Barrymore, was released.
January 16, 1926 – A British Broadcasting Company radio play by Ronald Knox about workers’ revolution in London causes a panic among those who have not heard the preliminary announcement that it is a satire on broadcasting.
February 16, 1926 – The two best women’s tennis players in the world, Suzanne Lenglen of France and Helen Wills of the U.S., faced each other at Cannes in an event billed as “The Match of the Century
February 13, 1926 -The first U.S. Air Mail stamp specifically limited for air mail use was issued by the U.S. Department of the Post Office in accordance with the Air Mail Act of 1925.
February 26, 1926 – Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five recorded “Heebie Jeebies“, the song that made Armstrong a star as well as the first to popularize the technique of scat singing.
March 14, 1926 – The Roland West silent film The Bat, was released by United Artists, with a premiere in New York City. Based on the 1920 Broadway theatre play of the same name, and billed as a “comedy-mystery-drama”, The Bat featured a masked villain wearing a cape that resembled a bat‘s wings.
The cartoon character “Reddy Kilowatt“, emblematic of various electrical utility companies and known for his limbs and torso made of red lightning bolts, was introduced in an advertisement in The Birmingham News for the Alabama Power Company (APC).
March 16, 1926 –Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fuel rocket at Auburn, Massachusetts in the United States. Using a mixture of gasoline and liquid oxygen, Goddard made the successful launch from his Aunt Effie’s farm in Auburn, Massachusetts.Thou gh the “Nell” rocket rose only 41 feet (12 m), the first flight demonstrated that liquid fuels and oxidizers could be used to launch larger rockets to greater heights, leading to the beginning of the “Space Age” in 1957 when a rocket first put a payload into Earth’s orbit.
March 21, 1926 – Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, directed by Harry Edwards, starring Harry Langdon and Joan Crawford
April 1, 1926 – Hugo Gernsback launches his pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories in the United States.
April 5, 1926 – The Harold Lloyd comedy film For Heaven’s Sake, which would become the highest-grossing film of the year, premiered in the United States.
April 24, 1926
April 28, 1926 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the General Grant Tree, a sequoia tree in California’s Kings Canyon National Park, to be “the nation’s Christmas tree“.“General Grant: Our Nation’s Christmas Tree”.
May 4, 1926 – The United Kingdom general strike begins at midnight, in support of a strike by coal miners.
May 9, 1926 – Richard E. Byrd and Navy Chief Aviation Pilot Floyd Bennett attempted a flight over the North Pole in a Fokker F.VIIa/3m tri-motor monoplane named Josephine Ford after the daughter of Ford Motor Company president Edsel Ford, who helped finance the expedition.
May 11, 1926 – C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien first meet in Oxford.
May 14, 1926 – Sparrows, directed by William Beaudine, starring Mary Pickford.
May 31, 1926 – The opening ceremonies for the Sesquicentennial Exposition, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, were held in Philadelphia.
June 8, 1926 –Babe Ruth hit one of the longest home runs of his career at Navin Field in Detroit, over the right field stands and into the street a block away. Sportswriters at the game reported that the ball carried over 600 feet, although whether it actually did or not cannot be proven.
June 20–24, 1926 – 28th Eucharistic congress in 
Chicago– First congress in the United States. Papal legate: Cardinal Bonzano. Hosted by Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago. Est worshippers: 500,000 at Soldier Field mass, 1 million at St. Mary of the Lake closing mass.
June 28, 1926 – The master filmmaker of parody Mel Brooks is born. At 99 he is working on Spaceballs 2 to be released in 2027.
July 4, 1926 – The Sesquicentennial of the United States was celebrated to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the U.S. On this day,
August 3, 1926 – Cristero War: Some 400 armed Catholics barricaded themselves in the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Guadalajara, Jalisco and exchanged gunfire with federal troops until they ran out of ammunition and surrendered. According to U.S. consular sources, 18 were killed and 40 wounded.
August 5, 1926 – Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan. The Vitaphone system uses multiple 33+1⁄3 rpm gramophone records developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric to play back music and sound effects synchronized with film.
August 6, 1926 – Gertrude Ederle (October 23, 1905 – November 30, 2003) becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Among other nicknames, the press sometimes called her “Queen of the Waves”
August 23, 1926 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian silent film actor extraordinaire dies at 31.. His last word before falling into a coma was ‘Madre’. An estimated 100,000 people lined the streets of Manhattan to pay their respects at his funeral, handled by the Frank Campbell Funeral Home. Suicides of despondent fans were reported.
September 18, 1926 – The Sherlock Holmes short story “The Adventure of the Three Gables” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was published for the first time in Liberty magazine in the United States.
September 19, 1926 – The Strong Man, directed by Frank Capra, starring Harry Langdon
September 20, 1926 – The North Side Gang attempted to assassinate Al Capone, spraying his headquarters in Cicero, Illinois, with over a thousand rounds of machine gun fire in broad daylight as Capone was eating there. Capone escaped harm.
September 22, 1926 – Thomas Edison declared the radio a commercial failure, saying, “There isn’t 10 percent of the interest in radio that there was last year. It’s a highly complicated machine in the hands of people who know nothing about it. No dealers have made any money out of it. It isn’t a commercial machine, because it is complicated … The phonograph is coming back into its own, because the people want good music.”
September 23, 1926 –Gene Tunney defeated Jack Dempsey by unanimous decision to win the world heavyweight boxing championship in Philadelphia.
The Adventures of Prince Achmed, directed by Lotte Reiniger – (Germany) Since two earlier Quirino Cristiani films are lost, it remains the oldest surviving animated feature film.
September 26, 1926 -The 43 trapped miners in the Pabst Mine Disaster were rescued.
October 14, 1926 – The children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne first appears, published by Methuen in London.
The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference is founded in Middlebury, Vermont. It has been called by The New Yorker “the oldest and most prestigious writers’ conference in the country.”
October 22, 1926 -In a dressing room of the Princess Theater in Montreal, the illusionist and stunt performer Harry Houdini was forcefully punched several times in the stomach by a McGill University student (accounts differ as to whether Houdini explicitly granted his permission or not). Houdini suffered from severe stomach pains as a result, though it is not clear whether this incident was the cause of his death from appendicitis nine days later as legend would have it.
The novel The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway was published.
October 28, 1926 – Pope Pius XI consecrated the first six Chinese bishops since the seventeenth century.
October 31, 1926 -The Feast of Christ the King, a new Catholic holy day, was first observed.
November 13, 1926 – A short story appeared in the New Zealand newspaper The Christchurch Sun about a nanny’s day out, titled “Mary Poppins and the Match Man”. The author, P. L. Travers, would later write a series of children’s books about the Mary Poppins character that would be adapted into a musical film by Walt Disney in 1964.
November 15, 1926 – The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) launched its NBC Radio Network at 8:00 in the evening with an inaugural broadcast on 22 U.S. radio stations.
November 19, 1926 -The Paramount Theatre opened in New York City.
December 3, 1926 – British mystery writer Agatha Christie disappeared from her home in Shere, Surrey. Her car was found abandoned several miles away with her clothes and identification inside strewn about inside, but there were no signs of foul play.
December 14, 1926 – Agatha Christie, missing for 11 days, was found at a spa in Harrogate. Her husband Archie issued a statement claiming she had been suffering from amnesia.
December 15, 1926 – Roman Catholic clergy in the United States issued a collective pastoral letter condemning the ongoing persecution of Catholics in Mexico.
December 26, 1926 –The final episode of Winsor McCay‘s Little Nemo in Slumberland is published.
December 31, 1926 – Turkey, the last nation in the world to use the old Julian calendar, marked the day as “December 18, 1926”, then switched over at midnight to the Gregorian calendar as part of the reforms set by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. At 12:01 am, the official date in Turkey was “January 1, 1927”.
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Some notable 1927 books.
Walter R. Brooks – To and Again (reissued 1949 as Freddy Goes to Florida, first of the Freddy the Pig series)
John Masefield – The Midnight Folk
1927 – Thornton Wilder – The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1927 – Caroling Dusk (1927) edited by Countee Cullen includes her poem
I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH LIFE
(With apologies to the memory of Alan Seeger)
I have a rendezvous with Life
In days I hope will come
Ere youth has sped and strength of mind,
Ere voices sweet grown dumb;
I have a rendezvous with Life
When Spring’s first heralds hum.
It may be I shall greet her soon,
Shall riot at her behest;
It may be I shall seek in vain
The peace of her downy breast;
Yet I would keep this rendezvous,
And deem all hardships sweet,
If at the end of the long white way,
There Life and I shall meet.
Sure some will cry it better far
To crown their days in sleep,
Than face the wind, the road, and rain,
To heed the falling deep;
Though wet, nor blow, nor space I fear,
Yet fear I deeply, too,
Lest Death shall greet and claim me ere
I keep Life’s rendezvous.
1927 –The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve (out of a total of fifty-six) Sherlock Holmes short stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Strand Magazine between October 1921 and April 1927.
1927 –Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs, setting a major league record.
1927 –Baby Doll Jacobson becomes a left fielder for the Red Sox. At age 36, his offensive production dropped to the lowest level since his rookie season of 1915. He compiled a .245 batting average in 45 games for Boston.
1927 –NFL championship – New York Giants (11–1–1) Joe Guyon helped this to happen. Joseph Napoleon “Big Chief” Guyon (Anishinaabe: O-Gee-Chidah, translated as “Big Brave”; November 26, 1892 – November 27, 1971) was an American Indian from the Ojibwa tribe (Chippewa) who was an American football and baseball player and coach.
1927 – 1927–28 in English football – This was the season in which Dixie Dean scored 60 goals in 39 league appearances for Everton – more than half of their total for the season (102). He is still the only player in English football to score 60 league goals in one season.
January 1, 1927 – Massachusetts became the first state in the U.S. to require car owners to carry liability insurance.
The tomb of Tutankhamun was opened for public viewing for the first time since the Egyptian pharaoh’s death in 1327 BC.
The British Broadcasting Corporation was created by royal charter as a publicly funded company, with 773 employees. The first BBC news bulletin was delivered at 6:30 am on January 3.
January 2, 1927 – The Cristero War began in villages across Mexico in the Los Altos region of the state of Jalisco. The uprising began in protest against anti-clerical laws in Mexico and the rebels called themselves “Cristeros” as fighters for so named because they fought for Christ.
January 10, 1927 – Fritz Lang‘s silent science fiction film Metropolis had its world premiere at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin.
January 16, 1927 – George Young, a 17-year-old from Toronto, became the first person to swim the 22 miles (35 km) between Catalina Island, California, and the mainland. At noon the previous day, 102 competitors dove into the waters for the prize offered by William Wrigley, Jr. Young was the only person to finish the task, arriving at the Point Vincente Lighthouse at 3:47 a.m.
January 22, 1927 – The Sherlock Holmes short story “The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was published for the first time in Liberty magazine in the United States.
January 27, 1927 – Logan, West Virginia – Sponsored by the Neely-Gunther-Nowlan Post of the American Legion, Harry Gardiner better known as the Human Fly an American man famous for climbing buildings, climbed the north wall of the Logan County Courthouse on 7:30 p.m. and unfurled a U.S. flag. The Human Fly was also the nickname of various other numerous stunt entertainers of the 20th century who would scale the exteriors of tall buildings in the United States. Former President Grover Cleveland reportedly nicknamed him “The Human Fly.”
United Independent Broadcasters, Inc., was incorporated as a network of 16 radio stations. On September 18, 1927, United would be acquired by William S. Paley and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System, providing CBS Radio, and later the CBS Television Network.
February 4, 1927 – Malcolm Campbell of England broke the world’s record for the fastest speed in an automobile, driving at nearly 175 miles (282 km) per hour on the Pendine Sands in Wales. Driving the Napier-Campbell Blue Bird, Campbell averaged 174.883 mph (281.447 km/h).
February 5, 1927 – (New York City)- Buster Keaton’s classic film The General is released.
February 9, 1927 – The strongest gun control legislation in the United States, to that time, was signed by U.S. President Calvin Coolidge. Taking effect on May 10, the Miller Act prohibited the sending of revolvers, pistols and other small arms through the mail. The ban was easily evaded by using private shipping companies.
February 14, 1927 – English suspense film director Alfred Hitchcock began his practice of making a cameo appearance in movies he directing, starting with the release of his first thriller, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog.
February 19, 1927 – “Dry ice“, it was announced by the American Chemical Society in a press conference in New York, would become available worldwide as the result of the perfection, by of a process that “converts solid carbon dioxide into a practical portable ‘ice'” “Synthetic ‘Dry Ice’ Is Invented As Shipment Aid”.
February 21, 1927 – Nicaragua‘s President Adolfo Díaz asked that his nation become a protectorate of the United States, and proposed to sign a 100-year treaty to allow American troops to occupy the Central American nation. President Coolidge declined to take the offer seriously, but U.S. troops remained in Nicaragua until 1933.
March 2, 1927 – Babe Ruth signed a new contract with the New York Yankees, calling for a then-record salary of $70,000 per year.Th e next best paid Yankee player was Herb Pennock, at $17,500 Wayne Stewart.
The discovery, by teenagers Frank Horton Jr. and Leonard Taylor, of high grade gold ore in Nevada, set off a modern-day gold rush that attracted thousands of prospectors to the area. The town of Weepah, Nevada sprang up near Tonopah. Within three months, the rush was over, and the Weepah was almost totally deserted by August.
March 8, 1927 – The first downhill skiing race in the United States took place at Mount Moosilauke in New Hampshire, and was won by Charles N. Proctor of Dartmouth College.
Singer Jimmie Rodgers, celebrated later as “The Father of Country Music”, recorded his first hit single, The Soldier’s Sweetheart.
March 9, 1927 – Signed on September 23, 1926, the 1926 Slavery Convention, officially the Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery, entered into force.
March 11, 1927 – The first armored car robbery was committed by Paul Jaworski and the Flatheads Gang near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The gang set off explosions to disable two cars that were transporting cash for the payroll for the Terminal Coal Company, and escaped with more than $104,000.
In New York City, the Roxy Theater was opened by Samuel Roxy Rothafel. With 5,920 seats, it was the largest cinema built up to that time.
March 22, 1927 – At a meeting at the Biltmore Hotel in New York, Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann and a supporter from the Jewish community, attorney Louis Marshall, reached an agreement to fund a survey of Palestine and the “Holy Land“. A commission headed by Lee Frankel delivered its report later in the year.
March 27, 1927 – Anatol Josepho, a 31-year-old Russian who had arrived in the United States penniless in 1925, became a millionaire with the sale of the rights to his invention, the photo booth, to the newly organized Photomaton Corporation.
Henry Ford, at the time the world’s wealthiest man, was hospitalized after he struck a tree.
March 28, 1927 – The Majestic Theatre opened in New York with the production Rufus LeMaire’s Affairs. The Broadway theatre would premiere numerous successful plays and musicals, including Carousel, South Pacific, The Music Man, Camelot, The Wiz, and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, which has played at the Majestic since 1988.
March 29, 1927 – Henry Segrave became the first person to drive a car at more than 200 miles per hour (320 km/h), reaching 203.79 miles per hour (327.97 km/h) in the 1,000-horsepower (750 kW) Sunbeam Mystery. Racing on the sands of Daytona Beach, Florida, Segrave broke Malcolm Campbell‘s world record, set in February 1927, by almost 30 miles per hour (48 km/h).
Hubert Wilkins and Ben Eielson became the first people to make an airplane landing on a floating icepack, after having engine trouble. Landing in the Arctic Ocean, further north than any previous airplane had been, Wilkins and Eielson made their repairs and took off again, flew back south, made another forced descent onto ice, and had to hike ten more days across the ice to return to the shores of Barrow, Alaska.
April 1927 – The Big BangThe Big Bang Theory is Born. Fr. Georges Lemaître, (July 17, 1894 – June 20, 1966) develops this theory that explains the evolution of the observable universe from the earliest known periods through its subsequent large-scale form.
April 1, 1927 – The Bureau of Prohibition was founded as part of the United States Department of the Treasury.
April 6, 1927 – On the tenth anniversary of America’s entry into World War I, a proposal for an international treaty “to outlaw war” was made by Aristide Briand, the Foreign Minister of France. The Kellogg–Briand Pact would be signed on August 27, 1928, by Briand and U.S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg.
April 7, 1927 – Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Herbert Hoover (then the Secretary of Commerce), which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television.
April 16, 1927 – Joseph Alois Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) is born.
August 20, 1927- Kabbalah! Secret Origins Rabbi Philip S. Berg (August 20, 1927 – September 16, 2013) is born. He was dean of the worldwide Kabbalah Centre organization. Kabbalistic astrology is a system of astrology based upon the Kabbalah: Esoteric Judaism; (sqpn.com). It is used to interpret and delineate a person’s birth chart, seeking to understand it through a kabbalistic lens.
April 22–May 5, 1927 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 strikes 700,000 people, in the greatest natural disaster in American history through this time.
April 30, 1927 – The first sound newsreel was introduced by Fox Movietone News, prior to the showing of a feature film at the Roxy Theater in New York City. The first report, lasting four minutes, showed the marching of cadets at the U.S. Military Academy.
One Summer: America, 1927
by Bill Bryson
May 1927 – Philo Farnsworth of the United States transmits his first experimental electronic television motion pictures, as opposed to the electromechanical TV systems that others have used before.
May 18, 1927 – Bath School disaster: A series of violent attacks by a school official results in 45 deaths, mostly of children, in Bath Township, Michigan, United States.
May 20–21, 1927 – Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo, nonstop transatlantic airplane flight, from New York City to Paris, France, in his single-engined aircraft, the Spirit of St. Louis.
He publishes the book “WE”
June 1, 1927 – Liquor sales began again in the province of Ontario for the first time since 1916. Visitors from the United States, where alcohol sales had been banned nationwide since 1920, were allowed to purchase up to two cases apiece of whiskey, wine and beer, no more often than once a month, and only if they were issued a non-citizen permit, which required three days stay in Canada.
Infamous acquitted hatchet-murder Lizzie Borden dies at 66.
–Franklin W. Dixon – The Tower Treasure
June 7, 1927 – Alvin “Shipwreck” Kelly climbed up the 50-foot (15 m) tall flagpole at the St. Francis Hotel in Newark, New Jersey, at 10:00 am, set a stool on the sphere at the top, and announced that he would remain there for at least eight days.
July 10, 1927– Ghost Bride! The San Francisco Examiner article July 10, 1927 (Newspapers.com) tells the story of John Seybold who paid a medium $7500 to talk to spirits. The medium set him up with one of the spirits named Sarah whom the old man meet in a seance. He eventually married her and later on sued the medium when he found out he had been tricked.
June 29, 1927 -A total eclipse of the Sun took place with the Moon’s shadow covering the United Kingdom shortly after sunrise. As a contemporary account noted, “This is the first total eclipse of the sun that has visited Great Britain since 1724 and it will be the last seen here until 1999“.
Pilots Maitland and Hegneberger completed their trans-Pacific journey at 6:31 am local time, landing at Wheeler Army Airfield in Honolulu.
Filming of the MGM motion picture The Trail of ’98 was marred by the deaths of stuntman Ray Thompson, and actors Joseph Bautin and F.H. Daughters. The three were filming a scene on the rapids of the Copper River in Alaska.
On the same day, actress Ethel Hall was killed on the Merced River during the filming of the silent western Tumbling River, starring Tom Mix and Dorothy Dwan (for whom Miss Hall was standing in).
June 30, 1927 – Blood was drawn from a yellow fever sufferer in the West African colony of the Gold Coast (now Ghana), then used for research by Dr. Adrian Stokes and Dr. A.H. Mahaffy. The blood sample, given by a 28-year-old man named Asibi, led to the isolation and discovery of the virus that transmits the disease.
July 11, 1927 – First 7-Eleven convenience store opens.
July 15, 1927 – Constance Markievicz (née Gore-Booth) (February 4, 1868 – July 15, 1927) dies aged 59 in Dublin. She was an officer in the Irish Citizen Army, taking part in the Easter Rising; the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, though she did not take her seat; and the first female Irish cabinet minister.
July 29, 1927 – Russian Orthodox Church leader orders oath of allegiance to the Soviet government.
July 30, 1927 – The last flight of the U.S. Air Mail Service took place, a year after the agency had begun phasing out in favor of the Postmaster General contracting with independent carriers. The AMS had delivered mail since May 15, 1918.
August 2, 1927 – Single Girl, Married Girl was recorded on this date. It is a folk song made famous by The Carter Family, about the differences in lifestyle between the two title characters.
August 7, 1927 – Peace Bridge opened between U.S. and Canada.
August 12, 1927 – Sound effects introduced to moviegoers by Wings.
August 22, 1927 – 200 people demonstrate in Hyde Park, London, against the death sentences on Italian American anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. Other protests are held across the world at this time.
September 1927 –Edward Wyke Smith – The Marvellous Land of Snergs (proto-Hobbits)
September 5, 1927 – Walt Disney releases Trolley Troubles, which marks the official debut of his first successful animated star, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
September 23, 1927 – Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, the first feature film to include a recorded soundtrack, premiered at the Times Square Theatre in New York City.
October 4, 1927 – Carving of the sculptures at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, begins.
October 5, 1927 – Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi played the title role in the premiere of the Broadway production of Dracula.
October 6, 1927 – The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, premieres at the Warner Theater in New York City. Although not the first sound film, and containing very little recorded speech, it is the first to become a box-office hit, popularizing “talkies” (although silent films continue to be made for some time).
October 15, 1927 – Oil was discovered in Iraq at 3:00 AM in the Baba Gurgur fields 50 miles south of Kirkuk, with a gusher that erupted after drilling had reached a depth of 1,500 feet. The strike created the first major oil field in the Middle East.
October 18, 1927 – The first flight of Pan American Airways takes off from Key West, Florida, bound for Havana, Cuba.
October 20, 1927 – The Stamps Quartet, consisting of Odis Echols, Roy Wheeler, Palmer Wheeler, Dwight Brock, first recorded the gospel music bestseller “Give the World a Smile“. The upbeat song inspired its own genre of gospel music.
October 21, 1927 – Groundbreaking was held for the George Washington Bridge on both shores of the Hudson River, and on the river itself (on a boat). The bridge would open eight months ahead of schedule, in October 1931.
October 24, 1927 – Mao Zedong formulated his “Three Rules of Discipline” (1.Obey orders 2.Don’t take anything from the workers or peasants and 3.Turn over anything taken from others). This was followed by Six Points for Attention on January 25, 1928, with two more added in January 1929.
November 7, 1927 – Pope Pius XI, answering the request of an American Roman Catholic bishop, gave his blessing for marriages performed in airplanes. A spokesman for the Vatican quoted the Pope as saying, “Provided other ecclesiastical formalities are complied with, there is no reason to prohibit these marriages.
November 12, 1927 – The Holland Tunnel, running underneath the Hudson River between Jersey City, New Jersey, and Canal Street in Manhattan, was opened at 5:00 pm to the public. Over the next two hours, 20,000 people walked through it before it was opened to traffic at midnight. President Coolidge pressed a button that rang a large brass bell at the entrance. At midnight, pedestrians were permanently barred from the tunnel, and cars began driving through from Jersey City.
November 26, 1927 – Maria Kutschera, a 22-year-old tutor, married her widowed employer, former Austro-Hungarian Navy Captain Georg von Trapp, and became stepmother to his seven children. Together, they formed the Trapp Family Singers, and their story became the inspiration for the Broadway musical, and later the film, The Sound of Music.
December 2, 1927 – Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile in the United States.
December 3, 1927 – The legendary comedy duo Laurel and Hardy make their first “official” film together as a team.
December 10, 1927 – The Grand Ole Opry received its name, after the NBC Radio Network show The WSM Barn Dance followed a presentation of the Grand Opera on NBC’s Music Appreciation Hour. WSM director George D. Day told audiences that after listening,
December 15, 1927 – Marion Parker, 12, was kidnapped from Mount Vernon Junior High School in Los Angeles. Her dismembered body was dumped from the kidnapper’s car two days later, after her father paid a $1,500 ransom.[29] Following the largest manhunt to that time on the West Coast, her killer, William Edward Hickman, was arrested on December 22 at the town of Echo, Oregon. He would be hanged on October 19, 1928.
In fiction, Anthony “Buck” Rogers, of the American Radioactive Gas Corporation, was entombed by a rockfall in an abandoned coal mine in Pennsylvania. Kept in a state of suspended animation by the radioactive gas, he would be revived 492 years later, in the year 2419 and go on to further adventures. Buck Rogers was introduced in Philip Francis Nowlan’s science fiction novella, Armageddon 2419 A.D. in the August 1928 issue of Amazing Stories.
December 23, 1927 – The annual caddy championship at the Glen Garden Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, pitted two future golf legends against each other. Both were 15 years old. Byron Nelson defeated Ben Hogan by one stroke.
December 25, 1927 – A copy of the Manusmriti, the Hindu holy book that established the rules for the caste system in India, was burned in public at Mahad, was burned by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, leader of the Dalit caste, commonly called the “Untouchables“.
December 26, 1927 – Belgian science fiction author J.-H. Rosny indirectly coined the word “astronaut” at a meeting of the Société astronomique de France (French Astronomical Society) to establish an annual award for outstanding work in promoting manned spaceflight. Asked to suggest a descriptive word for space travel, Rosny proposed l’astronautique, using the Greek root words for navigation of the stars.
December – Agatha Christie‘s fictional amateur detective Miss Marple makes a first appearance in “The Tuesday Night Club“, published in The Royal Magazine.
1927 – Nazca Lines Questions The Nazca Lines are a group of geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. They were created between 500 BC and 500 AD by people making depressions or shallow incisions in the desert floor, removing pebbles and leaving different-colored dirt exposed. Peruvian archaeologist Manuel Toribio Mejía Xesspe (April 16, 1896 – November 2, 1983) discovered locations of Nazca Lines while hiking in the foothills of the surrounding area. He then discussed them at a conference in Lima in 1939.
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1928 – Chef Boyardee is founded by Italian immigrant Ettore Boiardi in Cleveland, Ohio.
1928 – Henrietta Mears begins her work as the Christian Education Director at First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. She will continue this until her death in 1963. The FPCH is a congregation in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California that has had a significant impact on both the Presbyterian Church and evangelical Christianity around the world.
1928 – British Inter-Varsity sent Howard Guinness, a medical school graduate and Vice-Chairman of the British movement, to Canada. As God supplied the funds, he slowly worked his way across Canada, starting up and assisting evangelical student groups. This eventually led to Intervarsity Christian Fellowship starting in America. InterVarsity and IFES History | InterVarsity
1928 – The manuscript of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground written and illustrated by Carroll, which he had given to Alice Liddell, was sold at Sotheby’s in London on 3 April. It was sold to Philip Rosenbach of Philadelphia for £15,400, a world record for the sale of a manuscript at the time; the buyer later presented it to the British Library (where the manuscript remains) as an appreciation for Britain’s part in two World Wars.
Meet the Tiger by Leslie Charteris (May 12, 1907 – April 15, 1993) was the first novel in a long-running series of books (lasting into the 1980s) featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, alias “The Saint”.
January 6, 1928 – The Circus starring Charlie Chaplin
January 12, 1928 – Ruth Snyder execution in the electric chair at New York‘s Sing Sing Prison in 1928 for the murder of her husband, Albert Snyder, was recorded in a highly publicized photograph.
January 13, 1928 – WRGB (then W2XB) was started as the world’s first television station. It broadcast from the General Electric facility in Schenectady, NY. It was popularly known as “WGY Television”.
January 27, 1928 – A dirigible landed on an aircraft carrier for the first time in history when the Los Angeles was moored to the mast of the Saratoga in the Atlantic Ocean, allowing the passengers and crew to descend to the Saratoga’s deck.
February 2, 1928 – The Great Fall River fire broke out in Fall River, Massachusetts, destroying much of the town.
February 3, 1928 – Blue Yodel (T For Texas) is a song by American singer-songwriter Jimmie Rodgers.
February 10, 1928 –José Sánchez del Río a Mexican Cristero was put to death by government officials because he refused to renounce his Catholic faith.
February 11, 1928 – The Second Winter Olympic Games opened at St. Moritz in Switzerland.
February 22, 1928 – Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built.
February 25, 1928 – The Mystery of St. Toribio Romo Saint Toribio Romo (April 16, 1900 – February 25, 1928) was a Mexican Catholic priest and martyr who was killed during the anti-clerical persecutions of the Cristero War. Beatified and later canonized by Pope John Paul II along with 24 other saints and martyrs of the Cristero War, he is popularly venerated in Mexico and among Mexican immigrants, particularly for his reported miraculous appearances to migrants seeking to cross the Mexico–United States border.
March 4, 1928 – The first “Trans-American Footrace“, nicknamed the “Bunion Derby”, began in Los Angeles with 199 entrants competing to run 3,523.5 miles (5,670.5 km) by foot to New York City, with a $25,000 prize for the winner. Most of the entrants dropped out in the first few days, but 55 runners would go the distance, with Andy Payne finishing first.
March 6, 1928 – The Vatican announced that annulments of marriages between Catholics and non-Catholics would hereafter be considered by a committee of cardinals instead of the Rota Tribunal.
March 12, 1928 – Shortly before midnight, the St. Francis Dam in Los Angeles collapsed and released 12 billion gallons (45.4 billion liters) of water, killing more than 400 people.
March 18, 1928 – American Roman Catholic Cardinal George Mundelein told journalists in Rome that the Vatican had no interest in the presidential campaign of Catholic candidate Al Smith. “The Catholic church in America contends with no oppressive legislation, has no political ax to grind and lives and thrives under the existing form of government”, he said. “Therefore there is no reason whatever for it to take a partisan stand.”
March 19, 1928 – The popular radio comedy show Amos ‘n’ Andy, with white comedians Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll mimicking African Americans in the style of a minstrel show, first aired, originally as a local program on WMAQ in Chicago.
March 29, 1928 – The so-called “Flapper Vote Bill” passed its second reading in the British House of Commons. The bill would create over 5 million new women voters as young as twenty-one.
New York Rangers’ Coach Lester Patrick puts himself in NHL Stanley Cup game after his goalie is injured.
April 13, 1928 – The crew of the Bremen completed their transatlantic flight by touching down on Greenly Island, Canada around noon after encountering engine problems.
May 8, 1928 – Pope Pius XI issued the encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor dealing with the Acts of Reparation.
May 12, 1928 – Steamboat Bill, Jr. starring Buster Keaton.
May 15, 1928 – The animated short Plane Crazy is released by Disney Studios in Los Angeles, featuring the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse (in a non-distributed film).
May 31, 1928 – South Africa adopts a new national flag, based upon the Van Riebeeck flag or Prinsevlag (originally the Dutch flag), to replace the Red Ensign. It later became infamously known as the “apartheid flag” for being the flag of South Africa under Apartheid from 1948 to 1994.
June 29, 1928 – At the 1928 Democratic National Convention in Houston, Governor of New York Al Smith becomes the first Catholic nominated by a major political party for President of the United States.
July 2, 1928 – Prominent temperance activist Ernest Cherrington declared Al Smith the “most influential and powerful enemy of Prohibition that has ever appeared in public life” and urged all prohibitionists to unite against the Democratic presidential nominee.
July 7, 1928 – The first commercial use of the bread slicing machine created by Otto Frederick Rohwedder was by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri, who sold their first slices.Their product, “Kleen Maid Sliced Bread”, proved to be a success.
July 28 – August 12, 1928 – The 1928 Summer Olympics are held in Amsterdam, opening with the lighting of the Olympic flame. Women’s athletics and gymnastics debut at these games, and discus thrower Halina Konopacka of Poland becomes the first female Olympic gold medal winner for a track or field event. Coca-Cola enters Europe as sponsor of the games.
July 30, 1928 – The Irish Tricolour is raised for the first time at the Olympic Games when Dr. Pat O’Callaghan wins a gold medal for hammer throwing.
August 7, 1928 – Italy tightened its emigration laws, making it harder for Italians to reunite with relatives living abroad. Wives and sons could still join emigrated husbands and fathers, but only if they were dependent on them. Sisters had to be unmarried in order to join their brothers.
August 12, 1928 – The closing ceremony for the Summer Olympics was held. The United States won the medal count with 22 gold medals and 56 total.
September 3, 1928 – Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered penicillin when he returned to his lab after a summer holiday to find that the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria that had once been in a Petri dish had apparently been killed off by a Penicillium mould.
September 6 – 9 1928 – 29th Eucharistic congress in 
Sydney– First congress in Australia. The procession of the Eucharist, headed by the papal legate Cardinal Cerretti, was witnessed by 500,000.
September 16–18, 1928 -This was one of the deadliest hurricanes in the recorded history of the North Atlantic basin, and the fourth deadliest hurricane in the United States, only behind the 1900 Galveston hurricane, 1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, and Hurricane Maria.
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September 28, 1928 – Scottish-born microbiologist Alexander Fleming, at St Mary’s Hospital, London, accidentally rediscovers the antibiotic which he will call Penicillin.
November 18, 1928 – Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the third Mickey Mouse cartoon released, but the first sound film and the first such film to be generally distributed.
December 3, 1928- Louise Wilson is born.
December 12, 1928 – President Calvin Coolidge welcomed representatives of 34 nations at the opening of the International Civil Aeronautics Conference in Washington, D.C. The three-day gathering commemorated the 25th anniversary of the first flight, and was the first significant event to recognize the achievement of the Wright brothers. Orville Wright was honored, and escorted Charles Lindbergh to the platform to receive the Harmon Trophy.
December 13, 1928 – The clip-on tie was invented. I own a collection of these.
December 25, 1928 – The Western talking film In Old Arizona, starring Warner Baxter, premiered at the Fox West Coast Criterion Theatre in Los Angeles. It was the first talkie to be filmed outdoors.
December 26, 1928 – Dubble Bubble Gum, the first brand of chewing gum that allowed for blowing bubbles cleanly, was first sold by the Fleer Chewing Gum Company of Philadelphia under the brand name “Dubble Bubble”. The invention of Walter E. Diemer, an accountant for the Fleer candy company, bubble gum differed from previous candies in that it could not only expand with air, but was easy to remove from the skin once popped.
December 30, 1928 – Scottish anatomist and anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith said that 45 to 50 was the age that humans were naturally meant to live to. “Civilization, acting as the world’s hothouse, gradually extended this age to between 65 and 75”, he explained. “Nowadays some even desire it to be prolonged over the century mark. I think it is one of the most foolish of things for man to want such a long life.” Keith said it was “selfish” for older generations to “hang on too long” and block younger generations from getting their chance in life, and that it would be in the world’s best interests to restrict human life to an age at which each human would produce at maximum ability.
1928– The Bible and the Great Flood – Noah’s Ark is a 1928 American sound part-talkie epic and disaster film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Dolores Costello and George O’Brien.
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1929
January 6, 1929 – Albanian missionary sister Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, later known as Mother Teresa, arrives in Calcutta from Ireland to begin her work in India.
All Movies, Books, Printed Music and Art of 1929
entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2025
This includes these characters that first appeared on…
January 7, 1929 – Buck Rogers by creator Philip Francis Nowlan first appeared in daily American newspapers on January 7, 1929.
Tarzan of the Apes, a newspaper comic strip adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs character of Tarzan, was first published.
The Crime at Black Dudley (1929) featuring the gentleman sleuth Albert Campion by Margery Allingham (1904 – 1966). She was an English novelist from the “Golden Age of Detective Fiction“, and considered one of its four “Queens of Crime“, alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh.
January 10, 1929 – The first appearance of Hergé‘s Belgian comic book hero Tintin, as Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter…, au pays des Soviets), begins serialization in the children’s newspaper supplement, Le Petit Vingtième.
January 17, 1929 – The comic strip hero Popeye first appears in Thimble Theatre.
February 4, 1929 – The one millionth Model A Ford automobile was completed.
February 11, 1929 – The Kingdom of Italy and the Holy See of the Catholic Church sign the Lateran Treaty, to establish the Vatican City as an independent sovereign enclave within Rome, resolving the “Roman Question”
February 14, 1929 – The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre was the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago’s North Side Gang.
March 22, 1929 – The Canadian rum-running ship I’m Alone was shelled and sunk by the U.S. Coast Guard off the coast of Louisiana when it refused orders to stop. One crew member was killed and the incident caused some tension in Canada–United States relations.
April 14, 1929 – The first air mail delivery from India to the United Kingdom was completed at Croydon Aerodrome with the arrival of 15,000 letters.
April 15, 1929 – Author J. M. Barrie donated the copyright fee of his Peter Pan works to the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London in perpetuity.
April 16, 1929 – On Opening Day in major league baseball, Earl Averill made his major league baseball debut with the Cleveland Indians, going 1-for-4 with a home run to help defeat the Detroit Tigers 5–4 in 11 innings. The Indians also became the first ballclub to wear player numbers on the backs of their jerseys; the New York Yankees would have shared that distinction if their game hadn’t been rained out that day.
France rescinded its permission to allow English occultist Aleister Crowley to live there and gave him 24 hours to leave the country. Crowley had been living abroad since becoming unwelcome in England after being branded a traitor for writing articles supporting Germany during the war. “The expulsion order and the slanderous articles on my character do not worry me. Magick is the sole thing in life and lifts the soul above petty annoyances”, Crowley declared from his sick bed.
May 4, 1929 – The comedy duo of Laurel and Hardy made the jump to talking films with the release of Unaccustomed As We Are. Stan Laurel‘s famous whimper of panic was heard for the first time, as was Oliver Hardy‘s catchphrase, “Why don’t you do something to help me!”.
May 16, 1929 – The first Academy Awards ceremony was held in the ballroom of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, with a private dinner for 270 guests, followed by the distribution of the 12 awards, whose recipients had been announced in advance in the Academy newsletter. German film star Emil Jannings was given the very first award, as Academy director Douglas Fairbanks handed him the statuette for Best Actor. Wings won the first-ever Award for Outstanding Picture.
May 23, 1929 – The Cocoanuts the first Marx Brothers movie is released.
June 5, 1929 – In a written letter, Pope Pius XI criticized recent statements by Benito Mussolini as “heretical, modernistic, ponderously erudite, full of errors and inexact.” The pope was particularly angered by a statement in which Mussolini said that Christianity gained its worldwide influence by attaching itself to the pagan Roman Empire.
June 10, 1929 – Pope Pius XI promulgated 21 articles laying out the basic laws of Vatican City. The laws gave extensive powers to the pope that were transferred to the College of Cardinals during times when the papacy was vacant.
July 10, 1929 – New, smaller paper currency was put into circulation in the United States in the size that would be the standard more than 90 years later.
The new bills were about 69% the size of the previous bills, 6.14 inches vs. 7.42 inches long, and 2.61 inches vs. 3.125 inches wide.
July 25, 1929 – Pope Pius XI celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica and then made an historical entrance into St. Peter’s Square as a crowd of approximately 200,000 cheered the end of the pope’s status as a “prisoner in the Vatican” (Prigioniero nel Vaticano or Captivus Vaticani. For almost 59 years, beginning with the unification of Italy in 1870 and the annexation of Rome into the Kingdom of Italy, five popes (Pius IX, Leo XIII, Pius X, Benedict XV and Pius XI) had refused to venture outside the walls of Vatican City or even to appear at the balcony of the Vatican Basilica to face Saint Peter’s Square, as a gesture of refusing to accept the authority of the Italian government over the Vatican.
August 8 to 29, 1929 – German airship Graf Zeppelin makes the first aerial flight around the world.
September 2, 1929 – Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini warned that Palestine and Arabia could not regain peace unless Britain abandoned its policy of making Palestine a national home for Jews. He explained that the reasons for recent violence had little to do with the Wailing Wall but actually went back to the Balfour Declaration of 1917.
October 7, 1929 – The Victor Talking Machine Company was merged with RCA to form RCA-Victor, with RCA holding 50 percent of the stock, General Electric 30 percent, and Westinghouse Electric 20 percent.
October 12, 1929 – The comedy film Welcome Danger, Harold Lloyd‘s first talkie, was released.
October 21, 1929 – The Edison Institute of Technology was dedicated in Dearborn, Michigan, on the fiftieth anniversary of Thomas Edison‘s invention of the lightbulb.
The Great Depression Begins…
October 24–29, 1929 – Wall Street Crash of 1929
Crowd gathering on Wall Street after the 1929 crash
November 7, 1929 – The Museum of Modern Art opens in Manhattan nine days after the Wall Street crash.
Some 1929 Paintings
Grant Wood – Woman with Plants
November 29, 1929 – Bernt Balchen, U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Captain Ashley McKinley and Harold June become the first to fly over the South Pole. The South Pole is at the center of the Southern Hemisphere. Situated on the continent of Antarctica.
December 15, 1929 – Pope Pius XI beatified 107 English and Welsh martyrs who had been hanged between 1541 and 1680 during the English Reformation, along with 29 others who had been executed. The additions brought the list of beatified martyrs to 186. In 1935, two of the martyrs— Sir Thomas More and Cardinal John Fisher— would be canonized as saints of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Pius on the 400th anniversary of their deaths.
Thomas Tichborne
December 21, 1929 – The occasion of Joseph Stalin‘s fiftieth birthday marked the beginning of the state-orchestrated cult of personality around him.
December 31, 1929 – Mahatma Gandhi made a speech before the Indian National Congress in support of a resolution calling for Indian independence. The resolution was passed unanimously.
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