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Wikipedia.
Events:
January 1 - Grouping of all UK railway companies into four larger companies.
January 10 - Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
January 11 - Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to
pay its reparation payments.
February 16 - Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
March - Antigone by Jean Cocteau appears on a Paris stage. Settings by Pablo Picasso,
music by Honegger, and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel. Antonin Artaud played the part
of Tiresias.
March 2 - Time Magazine hits newsstands for the first time.
March 9 - Vladmir Lenin suffers a stroke, his third, which renders him bedridden and unable
to speak; consequently he retires his position as Chairman of the Soviet government.
April - End of Irish Civil War.
April 23 - Ceremonial inauguration of Gdynia Seaport.
June 9 - Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
July 24 - The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in
Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in the First World War.
August 2 - Warren Gamaliel Harding, 29th President of the United States (1921 - 1923) dies
in office and is succeeded by Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929).
August 13 - First major sea-going ship arrives at Gdynia, newly constructed Polish seaport.
September 1 - An earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama killing about 140,000 people.
September 4 - In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the first American airship, the "USS Shenandoah,
takes to the sky for the first time.
October 29 - Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
November 8 - Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful
attempt to overthrow the German government. Policeman and troops crush the attempt
the next day.
Juan de la Cierva invents the autogyro, a rotary-winged aircraft with an unpowered rotor.
Finnish flag carrier Finnair airline started in Aero Oy.
Interpol is set up.
Births:
January 1 -
Roméo Sabourin, SOE agent (d. 1944).
January 7 -
Pinkas Braun, actor and film director.
January 5 -
Sam Phillips, country music producer (d. 2003).
January 6 -
Jacobo Timerman, writer (d. 1999).
January 9 -
Wilhelmina Pieternella de Graaf.
January 10 -
Ingeborg Drewitz, writer (d. 1986).
January 11 -
Jacqueline Maillan, French actress.
January 19 -
Jean Stapleton, actress.
January 21 -
Krina van den Houten.
January 26 -
Anne Jeffreys, actress.
January 29 -
Paddy Chayefsky, writer (d. 1981).
January 31 -
Norman Mailer, writer and journalist.
February 2 -
James Dickey, poet, author (d. 1997).
February 2 -
Liz Smith, gossip columnist.
February 9 -
Brendan Behan, author (d. 1964).
February 11 -
Ronald Arculus, British diplomat.
February 12 -
Franco Zeffirelli, italian director.
February 13 -
Chuck Yeager, pilot.
February 27 -
Dexter Gordon, jazz saxophone player (d. 1990).
March 6 -
Ed McMahon, television personality.
March 6 -
Jürgen von Manger, cabaretist (d. 1994).
March 8 -
Walter Jens, writer.
March 9 -
Walter Kohn, physicist, winner 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
March 12 -
Wally Schirra, astronaut.
March 21 -
Shri Mataji Nirmala Shrivastava, the founder of Sahaja Yoga.
March 22 -
Marcel Marceau, mime.
March 24 -
Kermit Schafer, humorist (d. 1979).
March 26 -
Bob Elliott, comedian.
March 27 -
Louis Simpson, poet.
March 28 -
Willem Bastiaan van den Houten.
March 30 -
Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright.
April 2 -
G. Spencer-Brown, British mathematician.
April 20 -
Mother Angelica, founder of Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN)
Catholic cable TV channel.
April 22 -
Bettie Page, pinup model.
April 22 -
Aaron Spelling, television producer, writer.
April 23 -
Dolph Briscoe, former governor of Texas.
April 28 -
Adriana Cornelia de Jonge.
April 30 -
Jan van Dam.
May 1 -
Joseph Heller, novelist (d. 1999).
May 2 -
Patrick Hillery, sixth President of Ireland.
May 7 -
Anne Baxter, actress (d. 1985).
May 13 -
Bea Arthur, actress.
May 21 -
Ara Parseghian, American football coach.
May 27 -
Henry Kissinger, American diplomat and recipient of the Nobel Prize in peace 1973.
May 28 -
György Ligeti, composer.
May 31 -
Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi, later Prince Rainer III of Monaco.
July 2 -
Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poetess, the Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in 1996.
August 25 -
Dina Jannetje Krello.
September 1 -
Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, businessman, art
collector.
September 6 -
King Peter II of Yugoslavia.
September 9 -
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Virologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
laureate in 1976.
September 18 -
Johanna Adriana Ribbens.
September 22 -
Dannie Abse, Welsh poet.
October 5 -
Glynis Johns, British actress.
October 17 -
Floris van den Houten.
October 23 -
Frank Sutton, actor (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.) (d. 1974).
November 22 -
Arthur Hiller, film director.
November 29 -
Johannes Antonius Dales.
December 2 -
Maria Callas, opera diva (d. 1977).
December 8 -
Arend Arie (Arie) Dammers.
December 13 -
Larry Doby, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 2003).
December 13 -
Antoni Tàpies, Spanish abstract expressionist painter.
December 14 -
Gerard Reve, Dutch writer.
December 23 -
James Stockdale, United States Navy admiral.
December 25 -
Sonia Olschanezky, World War II heroine executed by the Nazis (d. 1944).
Deaths:
January 23 -
Max Nordau, author, philosopher and Zionist leader (* 1849).
January 27 -
Boudewina Janna van den Houten.
February 10 -
Wilhelm Röntgen, physicist, discoverer of X-rays, Nobel laureate.
March 26 -
Sarah Bernhardt, French actress.
March 27 - Sir
James Dewar, chemist.
May 9 -
Maarten van den Houten.
June 9 - Princess
Helena of the United Kingdom, third daughter of Queen Victoria, aunt
of King George V.
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