Sep 05 Flyweights Gene LaRue &Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously

Sep 06 Publisher Edward P.Dutton dies.

Sep 07 The birth of Peter Lawford, English actor

Sep 12 Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co

Sep 01 Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan, are rocked by an earthquake, killing over 50,000 people.

Sep 14 Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain

Sep 29 Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public

Sep 27 Lou Gehrig's first homer

Sep 01 US beats Australia in tennis, for their 4th straight Davis Cup

Jun 08 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #995 Sternberga

Jun 30 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica

Jun 14 Pres Harding is first US president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore

Jun 21 Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using the mail to defraud

Jun 12 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straitjacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above the ground in NYC

Dec 21 Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation

Dec 31 The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC

Dec 06 Presidential address broadcast on radio (President Calvin Coolidge) for the first time

Dec 31 First transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester

Dec 18 International zone of Tangier set up in Morocco

Dec 03 The birth of Maria Callas, American soprano

Aug 12 Enrico Tiraboschi is first to swim English Channel westward

Aug 03 Calvin Coolidge is sworn in as the 30th president of the United States, following the death of Warren G. Harding.

Aug 05 First American to swim the English Channel (Henry Sullivan)

Aug 29 The birth of Lord Richard Attenborough, British actor and Director

Aug 01 Pres Harding dies at Palace Hotel, SF

Aug 13 Mustapha Kemal elected president of Turkey

Oct 05 Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star

Oct 04 Young Stribling held light-heavyweight boxing championship for the shortest amount of time (3 hrs). Referee overturns the decision

Oct 29 Turkey proclaimed a republic (National Day)

Oct 06 USSR adopts experimental calendar

Oct 29 The Republic of Turkey is proclaimed.

Oct 16 Disney Company is founded

Oct 11 German mark falls to 10 billion per œ, 4 billion per $

Oct 29 "Runnin' Wild" (introducing the Charleston) opens on Broadway

Jul 08 Harding becomes first sitting president to visit Alaska

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