Jun 10 The birth of Judy Garland, US actress of 'Wizard Of Oz' fame

Jun 12 Insulin patented

Jun 27 Newberry Medal first presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)

Dec 03 The Toll of the Sea becomes the first successful Technicolor motion picture, screened at the Rialto Theatre in New York City.

Dec 06 The first commercial carrier of electricity launched its service on this day in 1922 in Utica, New York.

Dec 06 the first constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation

Dec 04 Lucille Atcherson, becomes first woman legation sect-US foreign service

Dec 30 Russia becomes the Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics

Dec 16 Gabriel Narutowicz first President of Polish Republic assassinated

Dec 19 Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times

Dec 20 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR)

Dec 22 Montreal Quebec official opening of the Mount Royal Hotel, with 1.046 rooms.

Dec 30 Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR & Transcaucasian SSR

Dec 30 Vladimir Lenin establishes the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Dec 16 Florence E. Allen becomes the first woman justice of a state supreme court (Ohio).

Aug 28 Joseph-Elzéar Bernier builds Craig Harbour, Canada's most northerly settlement to date at 76 degrees I0' N; on the Canadian Government Arctic Expedition.

Aug 28 The first radio commercial is broadcast. Queensboro Realty receives 10 minutes of air time on New York station WEAF for $100.

Aug 09 The birth of Philip Larkin, English poet

Aug 18 The birth of Shelley Winters, American actress

Aug 30 Tiger Rag, still a familiar ragtime tune, is recorded by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.

Oct 27 The first commemoration of Navy Day

Oct 30 Mussolini forms cabinet in Italy

Oct 31 Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister and Dictator of Italy

Oct 03 First facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, DC

Oct 31 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy

Oct 14 First automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC

Oct 28 The first coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game

Oct 18 The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is officially formed

Oct 18 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) established

Oct 04 The Canadian National Railway Company becomes a corporate entity (order in council P.C. 2094).

Oct 28 Benito Mussolini takes control and brings fascism to Italy.

Oct 11 The first woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson)

Jul 20 Togo made a mandate of the League of Nations

Jul 13 The France II, the world's largest sailing vessel, is wrecked off the coast of New Caledonia.

Jul 31 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's first water skis (Minn)

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