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Elsewhere in 1931

A photo journal of the events of 1931

January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics.
January 30 – The movie City Lights, starring Charlie Chaplin, has its premiere. Albert Einstein attends.
February 3 – Much of the New Zealand cities of Napier and Hastings are destroyed in an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, killing 256 people.
February 14 – The original film version of Dracula, with Bela Lugosi, is released in the United States.
March 3 – The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the United States’ National anthem.
March 5 – The British viceroy of India and Mohandas Gandhi sign the Gandhi–Irwin Pact.
March 23 – Indian revolutionary leaders Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for conspiracy to murder in the British Raj.
March 31 – An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000 people.
April 14 – The Second Spanish Republic is proclaimed in Madrid. Meanwhile, as a result of the victory of the Republican Left of Catalonia, Francesc Macià proclaims in Barcelona the Catalan Republic, as a state of the Iberian Federation.
April 15 – The Castellammarese War ends with the murder of Joe ”The Boss” Masseria, briefly leaving Salvatore Maranzano as capo dei capi of the American Mafia.
May 1 – Construction of the Empire State Building is completed in New York City.
June 5 – German Chancellor Dr. Heinrich Brüning visits London, where he warns the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald that the collapse of the Austrian banking system has left the entire German economy on the brink of disaster.
June 14 – The overloaded pleasure craft Saint-Philibert, carrying trippers home to Nantes from the Île de Noirmoutier, sinks at the mouth of the River Loire in France. Over 450 drown.
June 19 – In an attempt to stop the banking crisis in Central Europe from causing a worldwide financial meltdown, U.S. President Herbert Hoover issues the Hoover Moratorium.
June 23–July 1 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty accomplish the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane, flying eastabout from Roosevelt Field, New York, in 8 days, 15 hours, 51 minutes.
July – John Haven Emerson of Cambridge, Massachusetts perfects his negative pressure ventilator (iron lung), just in time for the growing polio epidemic.
July 9 – Irish racing driver Kaye Don breaks the world water speed record at Lake Garda, Italy.
July 16 – Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first Constitution of Ethiopia.
August 11 – A run on the British pound leads to a political and economic crisis in Britain..
August 24 – The Labour Government of Ramsay MacDonald resigns in Britain, replaced by a National Government of people drawn from all parties, also under MacDonald.
September 10 – The worst hurricane in British Honduras history kills an estimated 1,500.
September 18 – The Japanese military stage the Mukden Incident, an explosion blamed on Chinese dissidents and used as a pretext for the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
September 20 – With a gun literally pointed to his head, the Chinese commander of Kirin province announces the annexation of that territory to Japan.
October 4 – Dick Tracy, the comic strip detective character created by cartoonist Chester Gould, makes his debut appearance in the Detroit Mirror newspaper.
October 17 – American gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion in Chicago.
October 24 – The George Washington Bridge across the Hudson River in the United States is dedicated; it opens to traffic the following day. At 3,500 feet (1,100 m), it nearly doubles the previous record for the longest main span in the world.
October 27 – The United Kingdom general election results in the victory of the National Government, and the defeat of Labour Party, in the country’s greatest ever electoral landslide.
November 7 – The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed by Mao Zedong.
November 21 – James Whale’s film of Frankenstein is released in New York City.
December 5 – The original Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow is dynamited, by order of Joseph Stalin.

Elsewhere in 1930

February 10 – The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launch the Yên Bái mutiny in the hope of ending French colonial rule in Vietnam.
February 18 – While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh confirms the existence of Pluto
March 5 – Danish painter Einar Wegener begins sex reassignment surgery in Germany, and takes the name Lili Elbe.
March 6 – The first frozen foods of Clarence Birdseye go on sale in Springfield, Massachusetts.
March 12 – Mahatma Gandhi sets off on a 200-mile protest march towards the sea with 78 followers, to protest the British monopoly on salt
March 29 – Heinrich Brüning is appointed Chancellor of Germany
March 31 – The Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code) is instituted in the United States, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in films for the next 40 years.
April 5 – Mahatma Gandhi breaks the Salt laws of British India, by making salt by the sea at the end of the Salt March
April 6 – Hostess Twinkies are invented.
April 18 – The Chittagong Rebellion begins in India, with the Chittagong armoury raid.
April 21 – A fire in the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus kills 320 people.
May 6 – The Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey, up to 3,000 people are killed.
May 15 – Nurse Ellen Church becomes the world’s first flight attendant, working on a Boeing Air Transport trimotor.
May 17 – French Prime Minister André Tardieu decides to withdraw the remaining French troops from the Rhineland.
May 24 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Australia, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia
July 13 – The first FIFA World Cup starts – Lucien Laurent scores the first goal, for France against Mexico.
July 28 – R. B. Bennett defeats William Lyon Mackenzie King in federal elections, and becomes the Prime Minister of Canada.
July 30 – Uruguay beats Argentina 4–2, to win the first Association football FIFA World Cup final at Estadio Centenario, in Montevideo.
August 6 – Judge Joseph Force Crater disappears in New York City.
August 7 – Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith are lynched in Marion, Indiana – the photograph of this event will inspire the song Strange Fruit
August 9 – Cartoon character Betty Boop appears for the first time on screen, in the animated film Dizzy Dishes.
September 3 – A huge hurricane in the Caribbean demolishes most of the city of Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic.
September 6 – José Félix Uriburu carries out a military coup, overthrowing Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina.
September 8 – Scotch Tape, invented by Richard Gurley Drew, is sold by the 3M company in the United States for the first time.
September 17 – The Kurdish Ararat rebellion is suppressed by the Turks.
October 5 – British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India, on its maiden long-range flight, resulting in the loss of 48 lives.
November 3 – Getúlio Vargas becomes president of Brazil.
December 2 – President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress to ask for a $150 million public works program, to help create jobs and to stimulate the American economy.
December 19 – Mount Merapi volcano in central Java, Indonesia, erupts, destroying numerous villages and killing 1,300 people.
December 29 – Sir Muhammad Iqbal’s presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory, outlining a vision for the creation of Pakistan.

Elsewhere in 1929

January 6 – King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes suspends his country’s constitution
January 10 – The first appearance of Hergé’s Belgian comic book hero Tintin, as Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, begins serialization in Le Petit Vingtième.
January 17 – The comic strip hero Popeye first appears in Thimble Theatre
January 29 – All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues), by Erich Maria Remarque, is published in book form.
February 9 – ”Litvinov’s Pact” is signed in Moscow by the Soviet Union, Poland, Estonia, Romania and Latvia, who agree not to use force to settle disputes between themselves.
February 11 – 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 – In the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, five gangsters (rivals of Al Capone), plus a civilian, are shot dead in Chicago.
March 4 – The National Revolutionary Party (Partido Nacional Revolucionario) is established in Mexico, by ex-President Plutarco Elías Calles. Under a succession of names, it will hold power in the country continuously for the next 71 years
April 14 – The inaugural Monaco Grand Prix is won by William Grover-Williams, driving a Bugatti.
May 16 – The 1st Academy Awards are presented in a 15-minute ceremony at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, honoring the best movies of 1927 and 1928, Wings (1927) winning Best Picture.
May 20 – The Wickersham Commission begins its investigation of organized crime, following alcohol Prohibition in the United States.
June 8 – Ramsay MacDonald forms the United Kingdom’s second Labour government.
June 21 – An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow helps end the Cristero War in Mexico.
July 25 – Pope Pius XI emerges from the Apostolic Palace, and enters St. Peter’s Square in a huge procession witnessed by about 250,000 persons, thus ending nearly 60 years of self-imposed status by the papacy as Prisoner in the Vatican.
August 8–29 – German rigid airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin makes a circumnavigation of the Northern Hemisphere, including the first nonstop flight of any kind across the Pacific Ocean
August 16 – The 1929 Palestine riots break out between Palestinians and Jews in Mandatory Palestine, and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Palestinians are killed.
August 31 – The Young Plan, which sets the total World War I reparations owed by Germany at US$26,350,000,000 to be paid over a period of 58½ years, is finalized.
September 30 – Fritz von Opel pilots the first rocket-powered aircraft, the Opel RAK.1, in front of a large crowd in Frankfurt am Main.
October 12 – In the Australian federal election, The Labor Party, led by James Scullin, defeats the Nationalist and Country Coalition Government, led by Prime Minister Stanley Bruce, who loses his own seat
October 24–29 – Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange
October 29 -William C. Durant joins with the Rockefeller family and other financial giants to buy large quantities of stocks, but their efforts fail to stop the large decline in prices.
November 7 – In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opens to the public. The first exhibition Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh and Seurat (November 7 – December 7) is seen by 47.000 visitors
December 27 – Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the ”liquidation of the kulaks as a class”
December 28 – Black Saturday in Samoa – New Zealand colonial police kill 11 unarmed demonstrators, an event which leads the Mau movement to demand independence for Samoa.

Elsewhere in 1928

January 6–7 – The River Thames floods in London; 14 drown
January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith’s experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA
January 31 – Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata
February 8 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird broadcasts a transatlantic television signal from London to Hartsdale, New York
February 11–19 – The 1928 Winter Olympics are held in St. Moritz, Switzerland, the first as a separate event. Sonja Henie of Norway wins her first gold medal, in women’s figure skating.
March 12 – In California, the St. Francis Dam north of Los Angeles fails, killing 600
March 21 – Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for his first transatlantic flight
April 10 – The United States Republican Party primary elections in Chicago are preceded by violence, bombings and assassination attempts.
April 13 – The West Plains, Missouri Dance Hall explosion occurs – the reasons are still unknown.
April 14 – Two earthquakes in Chirpan and Plovdiv, Bulgaria destroy more than 21,000 buildings, and kill almost 130 people.
May 3 – An armed conflict between the Imperial Japanese Army (allied with Northern Chinese warlords against the Kuomintang’s southern army) occurs in Jinan, China.
May 7 – Passage of the Representation of the People Act in the United Kingdom lowers the voting age for women from 30 to 21, giving them equal suffrage with men from July 2
May 10 – The first regular schedule of television programming begins in Schenectady, New York, by General Electric’s television station W2XB
May 15 – The animated short Plane Crazy is released by Disney Studios in Los Angeles, featuring the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse
May 24 – The airship Italia crashes at the North Pole; one of the occupants is Italian general Umberto Nobile.
June 4 – Huanggutun incident – Zhang Zuolin, a warlord, is killed by Japanese agents in China.
June 20 – Serb politician Puniša Račić shoots dead three opposition representatives in the Yugoslavian Parliament, and injures three others.
June 29 – 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 7 – The first machine-sliced and machine-wrapped loaf of bread is sold in Chillicothe, Missouri, using Otto Frederick Rohwedder’s technology.
July 17 – José de León Toral assassinates Álvaro Obregón, president-elect of Mexico.
July 28 – August 12 – 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.
August 25 – Ahmet Zogu proclaims himself King Zog of Albania; he is crowned September 1.
August 27 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact is signed in Paris, the first treaty to outlaw aggressive war.
August 31 – The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, opens at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin.
September 3 – Philo Farnsworth demonstrates to the press in San Francisco the world’s first working all-electronic television system, employing electronic scanning in both the pickup and display devices.
September 3 – Scotsman Alexander Fleming, at St Mary’s Hospital, London, accidentally rediscovers the antibiotic Penicillin.
September 12 – The Okeechobee hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing 1,200 people – it will kill another 2,500 in Florida four days later.
October 1 – Joseph Stalin launches the first five-year plan (1928–1932)
October 7 – Haile Selassie is crowned king (not yet emperor) of Abyssinia.
October 8 – Chiang Kai-shek is named as Generalissimo (Chairman of the National Military Council) of the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China.
November 6 – In the US presidential election, Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin over Democratic New York Governor Al Smith.
November 18 – 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 21 – The United States Congress approves the construction of Boulder Dam, later renamed Hoover Dam.

Elsewhere in 1927

January 1 - The British Broadcasting Company becomes the British Broadcasting Corporation. John Reith becomes the first Director-General

January 1 – The British Broadcasting Company becomes the British Broadcasting Corporation. John Reith becomes the first Director-General

January 1 - The Cristero War erupts in Mexico when Catholic rebels attack the government, which had placed heavy restrictions on the church.

January 1 – The Cristero War erupts in Mexico when Catholic rebels attack the government, which had placed heavy restrictions on the church.

January 9 - A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children

January 9 – A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children

January 11 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California

January 11 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California

January 24 – U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua by orders of President Calvin Coolidge, intervening in the Nicaraguan Civil War, and remaining in the country until 1933.

January 24 – U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua by orders of President Calvin Coolidge, intervening in the Nicaraguan Civil War, and remaining in the country until 1933.

February – Werner Heisenberg formulates his famous uncertainty principle, while employed as a lecturer at Niels Bohr's Institute for Theoretical Physics, at the University of Copenhagen.

February – Werner Heisenberg formulates his famous uncertainty principle, while employed as a lecturer at Niels Bohr’s Institute for Theoretical Physics, at the University of Copenhagen.

February 23 – The U.S. Federal Radio Commission begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.

February 23 – The U.S. Federal Radio Commission begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.

March 7 – A 7.0 Mw  earthquake kills at least 2,925 in the Toyooka and Mineyama areas of western Honshu, Japan.

March 7 – A 7.0 Mw  earthquake kills at least 2,925 in the Toyooka and Mineyama areas of western Honshu, Japan.

March 11 - In New York City, the Roxy Theatre is opened by Samuel Roxy Rothafel.

March 11 – In New York City, the Roxy Theatre is opened by Samuel Roxy Rothafel.

March 24 – After six foreigners have been killed in Nanking, warships of the U.S. Navy and the British Royal Navy fire shells and shot to disperse the crowds.

March 24 – After six foreigners have been killed in Nanking, warships of the U.S. Navy and the British Royal Navy fire shells and shot to disperse the crowds.

March 29 – Henry Segrave breaks the land speed record, driving the Sunbeam 1000 hp at Daytona Beach, Florida.

March 29 – Henry Segrave breaks the land speed record, driving the Sunbeam 1000 hp at Daytona Beach, Florida.

April 7 – 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 7 – 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 22–May 5 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 strikes 700,000 people, in the greatest natural disaster in American history through this time.

April 22–May 5 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 strikes 700,000 people, in the greatest natural disaster in American history through this time.

April 27 - João Ribeiro de Barros becomes the first non-European to make a transatlantic flight, flying from Genoa, Italy, to Fernando de Noronha, Brazil.

April 27 – João Ribeiro de Barros becomes the first non-European to make a transatlantic flight, flying from Genoa, Italy, to Fernando de Noronha, Brazil.

May 18 – A series of violent attacks results in 45 deaths, mostly of school children, in Bath Township, Michigan.

May 18 – A series of violent attacks results in 45 deaths, mostly of school children, in Bath Township, Michigan.

May 20 – By the Treaty of Jeddah, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of Ibn Saud over the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd, the future Saudi Arabia.

May 20 – By the Treaty of Jeddah, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of Ibn Saud over the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd, the future Saudi Arabia.

May 20–21– 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.

May 20–21– 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.

Scenes of devastation following the 1927 Gulang earthquake
From the Catholic magazine StadtGottes 1927

May 22 – The 7.6 Mw  Gulang earthquake affects Gansu in northwest China with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), leaving over 40,000 dead.

July 15 – After police in Vienna fire on an angry crowd, 85 protesters (mostly members of the Social Democratic Party of Austria) and 5 policemen are left dead, and more than 600 are injured.

July 15 – After police in Vienna fire on an angry crowd, 85 protesters (mostly members of the Social Democratic Party of Austria) and 5 policemen are left dead, and more than 600 are injured.

August 1 – The Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army is formed, during the Nanchang Uprising.

August 1 – The Communist Chinese People’s Liberation Army is formed, during the Nanchang Uprising.

August 2 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge announces, ''I do not choose to run for president in 1928.''

August 2 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge announces, ”I do not choose to run for president in 1928.”

August 10 – The Mount Rushmore Park is rededicated in the United States. President Calvin Coolidge promises national funding for the proposed carving of the presidential figures.

August 10 – The Mount Rushmore Park is rededicated in the United States. President Calvin Coolidge promises national funding for the proposed carving of the presidential figures.

August 22 – Protests are held around the world against the death sentences on Italian American anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti.They are executed the next day.

August 22 – Protests are held around the world against the death sentences on Italian American anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti.They are executed the next day.

September – The Autumn Harvest Uprising occurs in China.

September – The Autumn Harvest Uprising occurs in China.

October 8 – The ''Murderers' Row'' team of the New York Yankees complete a four-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the World Series.

October 8 – The ”Murderers’ Row” team of the New York Yankees complete a four-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the World Series.

October 27 - Worthington, Ohio, collapses into a lake due to mine shafts underground - as the town has already been evacuated, there are no injuries

October 27 – Worthington, Ohio, collapses into a lake due to mine shafts underground – as the town has already been evacuated, there are no injuries

November 12 - Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union

November 12 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union

December 1 – Chiang Kai-shek marries Soong Mei-ling in Shanghai.

December 1 – Chiang Kai-shek marries Soong Mei-ling in Shanghai.

December 14 – Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.

December 14 – Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.

December 27 – Kern and Hammerstein's musical play, Show Boat, based on Edna Ferber's novel, opens on Broadway and then goes on to become the first great classic of the American musical theater.

December 27 – Kern and Hammerstein’s musical play, Show Boat, based on Edna Ferber’s novel, opens on Broadway and then goes on to become the first great classic of the American musical theater.

December 30 – The first Asian commuter metro line, the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, opens in Japan.

December 30 – The first Asian commuter metro line, the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, opens in Japan.

Elsewhere in 1926

January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece

January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece

January 8 - Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne, the last monarch of Vietnam

January 8 – Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne, the last monarch of Vietnam

January 26 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system for members of the Royal Institution, and a reporter from The Times, at his London laboratory.

January 26 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system for members of the Royal Institution, and a reporter from The Times, at his London laboratory.

March 6 - The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is destroyed by fire.

March 6 – The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is destroyed by fire.

March 14 – The El Virilla train accident occurs in Costa Rica killing 248 and injuring 93.

March 14 – The El Virilla train accident occurs in Costa Rica killing 248 and injuring 93.

March 16 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

March 16 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

April 17 – Zhang Zuolin's army captures Beijing

April 17 – Zhang Zuolin’s army captures Beijing

April 21 – Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary of York, later Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, is born in Mayfair, London.

April 21 – Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary of York, later Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, is born in Mayfair, London.

April 25 – Rezā Khan is crowned Shah of Iran, under the name ''Pahlevi''.

April 25 – Rezā Khan is crowned Shah of Iran, under the name ”Pahlevi”.

May 4 – The United Kingdom general strike begins at midnight, in support of the coal strike.

May 4 – The United Kingdom general strike begins at midnight, in support of the coal strike.

May 9 - Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to be the first to fly over the North Pole, though their claim is later disputed.

May 9 – Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to be the first to fly over the North Pole, though their claim is later disputed.

May 12 - Roald Amundsen and his crew fly over the North Pole, in the airship Norge.

May 12 – Roald Amundsen and his crew fly over the North Pole, in the airship Norge.

May 12–14 – Józef Piłsudski takes over in Poland in the May Coup

May 12–14 – Józef Piłsudski takes over in Poland in the May Coup

May 18 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears, while visiting a Venice, California beach.

May 18 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears, while visiting a Venice, California beach.

June 4 – Ignacy Mościcki becomes president of Poland.

June 4 – Ignacy Mościcki becomes president of Poland.

July 10 – A bolt of lightning strikes Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey; the resulting fire causes several million pounds of explosives to blow up in the next 2–3 days.

July 10 – A bolt of lightning strikes Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey; the resulting fire causes several million pounds of explosives to blow up in the next 2–3 days.

August 5 – In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres, with the movie Don Juan, starring John Barrymore.

August 5 – In New York, the Warner Brothers’ Vitaphone system premieres, with the movie Don Juan, starring John Barrymore.

August 23 – The sudden death of popular film actor and sex symbol Rudolph Valentino, at age 31, causes mass grief and hysteria around the world.

August 23 – The sudden death of popular film actor and sex symbol Rudolph Valentino, at age 31, causes mass grief and hysteria around the world.

September 1 – Lebanon under the French Mandate gets its first constitution, thereby becoming a republic. Charles Debbas is elected president.

September 1 – Lebanon under the French Mandate gets its first constitution, thereby becoming a republic. Charles Debbas is elected president.

September 11 - In Rome, Italy, Gino Lucetti throws a bomb at Benito Mussolini's car, but Mussolini is unhurt.

September 11 – In Rome, Italy, Gino Lucetti throws a bomb at Benito Mussolini’s car, but Mussolini is unhurt.

September 18 – A strong hurricane devastates Miami, leaving over 100 dead and causing several hundred million dollars in damage.

September 18 – A strong hurricane devastates Miami, leaving over 100 dead and causing several hundred million dollars in damage.

September 25 - The League of Nations Slavery Convention abolishes all types of slavery.

September 25 – The League of Nations Slavery Convention abolishes all types of slavery.

October 14 – A. A. Milne's children's book Winnie-the-Pooh is published in London, featuring the eponymous bear.

October 14 – A. A. Milne’s children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh is published in London, featuring the eponymous bear.

October 23 - Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev are removed from the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

October 23 – Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev are removed from the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

October 31 – Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that has developed after his appendix ruptured.

October 31 – Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that has developed after his appendix ruptured.

November 15 - The Balfour Declaration is approved by the 1926 Imperial Conference, making the Commonwealth dominions equal and independent.

November 15 – The Balfour Declaration is approved by the 1926 Imperial Conference, making the Commonwealth dominions equal and independent.

December 2 – British prime minister Stanley Baldwin ends the martial law that had been declared, due to the general strike.

December 2 – British prime minister Stanley Baldwin ends the martial law that had been declared, due to the general strike.

December 3 – Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey; on December 14 she is found at a Harrogate hotel.

December 3 – Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey; on December 14 she is found at a Harrogate hotel.

December 17 – A democratically elected government is overthrown in Lithuania. Antanas Smetona assumes power.

December 17 – A democratically elected government is overthrown in Lithuania. Antanas Smetona assumes power.

December 26 – The Japanese Shōwa period begins from this day, due to the death of Emperor Taishō on the day before. His son Hirohito will reign as Emperor until 1989.

December 26 – The Japanese Shōwa period begins from this day, due to the death of Emperor Taishō on the day before. His son Hirohito will reign as Emperor until 1989.

 

 

Elsewhere in 1925

January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Historians now trace this speech to the beginning of Mussolini's dictatorship.

January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Historians now trace this speech to the beginning of Mussolini’s dictatorship.

January 27–February 1 – 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.

January 27–February 1 – 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.

February 21 – The cover date of the very first issue of The New Yorker.

February 21 – The cover date of the very first issue of The New Yorker.

March 4 - Calvin Coolidge is sworn in for a full term as President of the United States, in the first inauguration to be broadcast on radio.

March 4 – Calvin Coolidge is sworn in for a full term as President of the United States, in the first inauguration to be broadcast on radio.

March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest in U.S. history, rampages through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027

March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest in U.S. history, rampages through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027

April – The Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes opens in Paris, giving a name to the Art Deco style.

April – The Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes opens in Paris, giving a name to the Art Deco style.

April 10 – F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby

April 10 – F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby

April 20 – Iranian forces of Rezā Shāh occupies Ahvaz and arrests Sheikh Khaz'al.

April 20 – Iranian forces of Rezā Shāh occupies Ahvaz and arrests Sheikh Khaz’al.

April 28 – Presenting the budget, Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill announces Britain's return to the gold standard.

April 28 – Presenting the budget, Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill announces Britain’s return to the gold standard.

Scopes

May 5 – Dayton, Tennessee, biology teacher John T. Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.

June 13 – Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of pictures and sound, using 48 lines and a mechanical system in ''the first public demonstration of radiovision''

June 13 – Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of pictures and sound, using 48 lines and a mechanical system in ”the first public demonstration of radiovision”

July 18 – Adolf Hitler publishes Volume 1 of his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.

July 18 – Adolf Hitler publishes Volume 1 of his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.

July 21 - In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.

July 21 – In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.

August 8 – The Ku Klux Klan demonstrates its popularity by holding a parade with an estimated 30,000-35,000 marchers in Washington DC.

August 8 – The Ku Klux Klan demonstrates its popularity by holding a parade with an estimated 30,000-35,000 marchers in Washington DC.

October 1 – Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated in South Dakota.

October 1 – Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated in South Dakota.

October 2 – In London, John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television pictures with a greyscale image.

October 2 – In London, John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television pictures with a greyscale image.

Locarno, Gustav Stresemann, Chamberlain, Briand

October 5–16 – The Locarno Treaties are negotiated.

November 14 - The first Surrealist art exhibition opens in Paris.

November 14 – The first Surrealist art exhibition opens in Paris.

November 26 – Prajadhipok (Rama VII) is crowned as King of Siam.

November 26 – Prajadhipok (Rama VII) is crowned as King of Siam.

November 28 – The weekly country music-variety radio program Grand Ole Opry is first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, as the ''WSM Barn Dance''.

November 28 – The weekly country music-variety radio program Grand Ole Opry is first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, as the ”WSM Barn Dance”.

Elsewhere in 1924

January 21 - Following the death of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin immediately begins to purge his rivals to clear the way for his leadership.

January 21 – Following the death of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin immediately begins to purge his rivals to clear the way for his leadership.

January 22 – Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

January 22 – Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

St. Moritz, Winterolympiade

January 25 – The first Winter Olympics, the 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, in the French Alps.

Moskau, Lenin-Mausoleum

January 27 – Lenin is buried in Lenin’s Mausoleum, in Moscow’s Red Square.

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March 3 – The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of President Kemal Atatürk.

March 8 – The Castle Gate Mine disaster kills 172 coal miners in Utah, United States.

March 8 – The Castle Gate Mine disaster kills 172 coal miners in Utah, United States.

April 1 - Adolf Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in jail, for his participation in the Beer Hall Putsch (he serves only 8 months).

April 1 – Adolf Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in jail, for his participation in the Beer Hall Putsch (he serves only 8 months).

April 6 – Fascists win the elections in Italy with a ⅔ majority.

April 6 – Fascists win the elections in Italy with a ⅔ majority.

April 16 – American media company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) is founded in Los Angeles.

April 16 – American media company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) is founded in Los Angeles.

April 23 – The British Empire Exhibition opens; it is the largest colonial exhibition, with 58 countries of the empire dramatically represented.

April 23 – The British Empire Exhibition opens; it is the largest colonial exhibition, with 58 countries of the empire dramatically represented.

April 26 – Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his ''death ray'' in London, but fails to convince the British War Office.

April 26 – Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his ”death ray” in London, but fails to convince the British War Office.

May 4 – The 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies are held in Paris, France.

May 4 – The 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies are held in Paris, France.

May 10 – In the United States, J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

May 10 – In the United States, J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

May 24 – The Immigration Act of 1924 is signed into law in the United States, including the Asian Exclusion Act.