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Events:
January 7 - Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64-57 votes.
January 10 - Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éireann.
January 11 - First successful insulin treatment of diabetes.
January 15 - Michael Collins becomes head of the (Irish) Provisional Government.
January 24 - Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.
January 29 - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador is dissolved.
February 2 - Ulysses (novel) by James Joyce is published in Paris on his 40th birthday
by Sylvia Beach.
February 5 - DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest.
February 6 - Achille Ratti becomes Pope Pius XI.
February 8 - President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
February 27 - A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution,
allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
March 15 - After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I
becomes King of Egypt.
March 18 - In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil
disobedience. He would serve only 2 years.
March 20 - The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
April 7 - Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome
oil reserves in Wyoming.
April 16 - The Treaty of Rapallo marks rapprochement between the Weimar Republic and
Bolshevist Russia.
May 30 - In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
June 1 - Official founding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
June 26 - Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince Louis II of
Monaco.
June 28 - The Irish Civil War begins.
August 12 - Death of Arthur Griffith, President of Dáil Éireann.
August 22 - Assassination of General Michael Collins - President of the Irish Provisional
Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Provisional Army.
September 11 - One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The
Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
October 28 - In Italy, with the March on Rome, Fascism obtains power and Benito
Mussolini becomes prime minister.
October 31 - Benito Mussolini becomes the youngest Premier in the history of Italy.
September 23 - Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament.
November 1 - Ottoman Empire is abolished and its last sultan Mehmed VI Vahdettin abdicates.
November 4 - In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the
entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
November 14 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service
in the United Kingdom.
November 17 - Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI went on exile in Italy.
November 19 - Abdul Mejid II, Crown Prince of the Ottoman Empire is elected Caliph.
November 21 - Rebecca Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first
woman United States Senator.
November 24 - Popular author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers
is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
November 26 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter
the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
December 6 - The Irish Free State comes into existence. George V becomes King of Ireland.
Tim Healy appointed first Governor-General of the Irish Free State, W.T. Cosgrave becomes
President of the Executive Council.
December 30 - Russia and allied Soviet republics form the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR).
Invention of Vegemite by Australian Fred Walker.
Births:
January 1 -
Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, South Carolina senator.
January 7 -
Jean-Pierre Rampal, musician.
January 13 -
Albert Lamorisse, film director (d. 1970).
January 17 -
Nicholas Katzenbach, politician.
January 17 -
Betty White, actress.
January 21 -
Paul Scofield, actor.
January 30 -
Dick Martin, comedian.
February 6 -
Patrick Macnee, actor.
February 7 -
Hattie Jacques, actress (d. 1980).
February 9 -
Kathryn Grayson, actress.
February 11 -
Tudor Jarda, composer.
February 14 -
Anthonius van den Houten.
February 15 -
John Bayard Anderson, U.S Representative and presidential candidate.
February 18 -
Helen Gurley Brown, editor, publisher.
February 24 -
Richard Hamilton, pop-art painter.
February 24 -
Steven Hill, actor.
March 1 -
Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
(d. 1995).
March 1 -
William Gaines, publisher, founder of MAD Magazine (d. 1992).
March 5 -
Pier Paolo Pasolini, film director.
March 8 -
Heinar Kipphardt, dramatist, lyricist, narrator (d. 1982).
March 9 -
Tommy Cooper, UK comedian and magician.
March 12 -
Jack Kerouac, US author.
March 18 -
Egon Bahr, politician.
March 20 -
Carl Reiner, director, producer, actor, comedian.
March 21 -
Russ Meyer, pornographic film director, producer.
March 31 -
Richard Kiley, actor, singer (d. 1999).
April 1 -
William Manchester, writer.
April 4 -
Elmer Bernstein, composer.
April 5 -
Gale Storm, singer/actress.
April 7 -
Mongo Santamaria, Latin jazz musician (d. 2003).
April 22 -
Charles Mingus, musician (d. 1979).
April 22 - Sir
Kingsley Amis, English novelist (d. 1995).
April 23 -
Hermina Geerling.
April 28 -
Alistair Maclean, actor.
May 7 -
Darren McGavin, actor.
May 14 -
Franjo Tudjman, president of Croatia (d. 1999).
May 17 -
Dennis Brain, French horn player.
May 17 -
Antje Weisgerber, actress.
May 18 -
Johannes Christiaan den Boer.
May 18 -
Kai Winding, jazz musician (d. 1983).
May 21 -
James Lopez Watson, American judge (d. 2001).
May 22 -
Quinn Martin, television producer (d. 1987).
May 25 -
Enrico Berlinguer, politician (d. 1984).
May 27 -
Christopher Lee, actor.
May 28 -
Lou Duva, boxing trainer.
May 29 -
Iannis Xenakis, composer.
May 30 -
Hal Clement, science fiction writer.
May 31 -
Denholm Elliott, actor (d. 1992).
June 10 -
Judy Garland, performer.
July 18 -
Thomas Kuhn, philosopher of science.
August 17 -
Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (d. 1979).
August 23 -
George Kell, Baseball Hall of Famer.
September 1 -
Vittorio Gassmann, Italian actor and director.
September 3 -
Salli Terri, mezzo soprano (d. 1996).
September 8 -
Sid Caesar, actor, comedian.
September 9 -
Alberdina Hendriks.
September 15 -
Jackie Cooper, American actor and director.
September 17 -
Anna Maria Daleboudt.
September 25 -
Hammer DeRoburt, founding president of Nauru (d. 1992).
October 4 -
Wouter Ribbens.
October 23 -
Thonis Bil.
November 8 -
Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (d. 2001).
November 14 -
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary General of the U.N.
December 23 -
Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician.
December 24 -
Howard R Grinde, U.S Army soldier in WWII.
December 28 -
Dina Cornelia (Dini) van den Houten.
December 28 -
Stan Lee, co-creator of Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, and many
other Marvel Comics characters.
Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, later Yang di-Pertuan Besar of
Negeri Sembilan and 10th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam
Shah Al-Haj, later Sultan of Selangor and 11th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
Deaths:
January 5 -
Ernest Shackleton, explorer.
January 22 -
Pope Benedict XV.
February 2 -
William Desmond Taylor, film director.
February 11 -
Gerardus J. P. Bolland, Dutch philosopher.
February 18 -
Cornelia Rommelse.
February 21 -
Aukje Zwaal.
April 1 - Emperor
Karl of Austria.
April 2 -
Hermann Rorschach.
May 19 -
Son, Byong-Hi, one of the leaders of the Samil, or March 1st Movement in Korea.
May 28 -
Adriaantje van den Houten.
June 6 -
Lillian Russell, singer, vaudeville star.
June 18 -
Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer.
June 26 -
Albert I of Monaco.
August 2 -
Alexander Graham Bell, father of the telephone.
August 5 -
Harry Boland, Irish republican, killed in the Irish Civil War.
August 12 -
Arthur Griffith, President of Dáil Éireann.
August 22 -
Michael Collins, assassinated.
September 4 -
Sarah L. Winchester, builder of the Winchester Mystery House.
October 11 -
Maria Helena Halfers.
October 28 -
Wouter Ribbens.
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