Feb 05 Mass arrests of socialists &communists in Italy

Feb 24 Flying Scotsman goes into rail service betweem London and Scotland

Feb 16 The burial vault of King Tutankhamen's tomb is opened in Egypt.

Feb 08 German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily

Feb 18 Belgium Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages

Feb 02 Ethyl gasoline first marketed, Dayton OH

Feb 10 Ink paste manufactured for first time by Standard Ink Company

Feb 10 SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of Ruhrgebied

Feb 23 German Republic day with laws against worker

Feb 08 Coal mine explosion at Dawson NM kills 120

Feb 16 Allies accept Latvia's occupation of Memel territory

Feb 05 General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar

Apr 18 Poland annexes Central Lithuania

Apr 15 First sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (NYC)

Apr 28 Wembley Stadium opens-Bolton Wanderers vs West Ham United (FA Cup)

Apr 13 Army wins the first college three-weapon fencing championships

Apr 15 Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics

Apr 25 First Anzac Day Dawn Service held on Mt Clarence, overlooking King Georges Sound, Albany, Western Australia

Apr 18 Yankee Stadium opened in the Bronx, NY

Apr 14 Etienne Oehmichen sets helicopter distance record of 358 meters

Apr 18 74,000 (62,281 paid) on hand for opening of Yankee Stadium

Apr 05 Firestone Company puts their inflatable tires into production

Apr 03 2 "Black Sox" sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary

Apr 12 The birth of Maria Callas, Italian opera singer

Nov 09 Beer Hall Putsch-NAZIs fail to overthrow government in Germany

Nov 08 Adolf Hitler launches a failed coup in Munich, later known as the "Beer Hall Putsch".

Nov 22 Arthur Hiller (director: The Americanization of Emily, Author! Author!, Man of La Mancha, Plaza Suite, The Silver Streak)

Nov 18 Alan Shepard, Jr. first American in space is born

Nov 18 The birth of Alan Shepard, First American astronaut in space

Nov 22 Arthur Hiller (director The Americanization of Emily, Author! Author!, Man of La Mancha, Plaza Suite, The Silver Streak)

Nov 04 Alfred Heineken (Heineken beer) born

Nov 22 Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death

Sep 01 Earthquake strikes Tokyo &Yokohama, kills 106,000

Sep 11 The ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, the Woolworth Tower

Sep 30 The birth of Deborah Kerr, English born film actress

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