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Mar 28 The first microfilm device introduced - where is the CIA?

Mar 16 WKY-AM in Oklahoma City OK begins radio transmissions

Mar 03 Italian fascists occupy Fiume & Rijeka

Mar 18 British magistrates in India sentence Mohandas K Gandhi to 6 years for disobedience

Mar 31 Prince Hendrik opens trade fair building in Amsterdam

Mar 07 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Sherwin Badger

Mar 05 "Nosferatu" premieres in Berlin

Mar 10 State of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg South Africa

Mar 16 Sultan Fuad I crowned king of Egypt, England recognizes Egypt

Mar 23 First airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington DC

Mar 07 Belgian soccer team defeats Netherlands, 1-2

Mar 07 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard

Mar 22 British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison

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.

Sep 13 136.4øF (58ø C), El Aziziyah, Libya in shade (world record)

Sep 28 Mussolini marches on Rome

Sep 27 King Constantine I of Greece abdicates

Sep 01 NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billards"

Sep 21 Pres Warren G Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine

Sep 13 The record high temperature for the planet is set in Azizia, Libya, where it reached 136 degrees Fahrenheit.

Sep 11 British mandate of Palestine begins

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