date: October 5

text: October 5–16 – The Locarno Treaties are negotiated.

source_section: Events › October


date: November 14

section: Geopolitics & Diplomacy

text: November 14 – 1925 Australian federal election: Stanley Bruce's Nationalist/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by Matthew Charlton.

source_section: Events › November


date: December 1

text: December 1 – The Locarno Treaties are signed in London, intended to secure the post-war continental European territorial settlement.

source_section: Events › December


date: January 1

section: Conflict & Security

text: January 1 – The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria.

source_section: Events › January


date: January 3

text: January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italian Chamber of Deputies which will be regarded by historians as the beginning of his dictatorship.


date: March 1

text: March 1 – New York City Fire Department Rescue 2 is put in service in Brooklyn.

source_section: Events › March


date: March 9

text: March 9–May 1 – Pink's War: The British Royal Air Force bombards mountain strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen in South Waziristan.


date: April 16

text: April 16 – A communist assault on St Nedelya Church claims roughly 150 lives in Sofia, Bulgaria.

source_section: Events › April


date: April 20

text: April 20 – Iranian forces of Reza Shah occupy Ahvaz and arrest Sheikh Khazʽal Ibn Jabir.


date: July 18

text: July 18 – Adolf Hitler publishes Volume 1 of his personal manifesto Mein Kampf in Germany.

source_section: Events › July


date: August 25

text: August 25 – The French complete their evacuation of the Ruhr region of Germany.

source_section: Events › August


date: October 19

text: October 19–29 – Incident at Petrich: A brief conflict occurs between Bulgaria and Greece after a Greek soldier accidentally crosses into the Bulgarian side and is shot by border guards.


date: November 9

text: November 9 – Formal foundation date of the Schutzstaffel (SS) as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in Germany.


text: New York City becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from London.

source_section: Events › Date unknown


date: April

section: Exploration & Expansion

text: Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leave Washington, D.C. to begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states.


date: May 29

text: May 29 – English explorer Percy Fawcett sends a last telegram to his wife before he disappears in the Amazon.

source_section: Events › May


date: July 21

text: July 21 – English racing motorist Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150 mph 0 on land when at Pendine Sands in Wales he drives a Sunbeam 350HP automobile at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph 0.


date: August 31

text: August 31 – Anthropologist Margaret Mead lands in American Samoa to begin nine months of field work that will culminate in her 1928 book Coming of Age in Samoa. The bestselling book will become the first popular anthropological study and will change many attitudes towards tribal peoples.


date: November 17

text: November 17 – The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition, a world's fair, opens in Dunedin, New Zealand.


date: December 12

text: December 12 – The first motel in the world, the Milestone Mo-Tel (later the Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo), opens in San Luis Obispo, California.


date: May 1

section: Religion & Belief

text: May 1 – In the Destruction of early Islamic heritage sites in Saudi Arabia, the al-Baqi' mausoleums are destroyed by King Ibn Saud.


date: December 11

text: December 11 – Pope Pius XI's encyclical Quas primas, on the Feast of Christ the King, is promulgated.


text: Islamic Bektashi Order lodges in Turkey are closed down by order of the country's President, Atatürk, and the leadership moves to Albania.


text: Ernest Blythe, Minister for Finance in the Irish Free State, arranges an annual government subsidy of £850 for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, making it the first state-supported theatre in the English-speaking world.


date: January 25

section: Economy & Finance

text: January 25 – Hjalmar Branting resigns as Prime Minister of Sweden because of ill health, and is replaced by the minister of trade, Rickard Sandler.


date: December 25

text: December 25 – IG Farben is formed by the merger of six chemical companies in Germany.


date: February 25

section: Technology & Infrastructure

text: February 25 – Art Gillham records (for Columbia Records) the first Western Electric masters to be commercially released.

source_section: Events › February


date: April 1

text: April 1 – In the United States:


text: The Patent and Trademark Office is transferred to the Department of Commerce.


date: June 6

text: June 6 – The Chrysler Corporation is founded as an automobile manufacturer by Walter Chrysler in the United States.

source_section: Events › June


date: June 13

text: June 13 – American engineer 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".


date: July 10

text: July 10 – Meher Baba begins his 44-year silence.


date: July 25

text: July 25 – The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.


date: August 1

text: August 1 – The New Cape Central Railway between Worcester and Voorbaai is incorporated into the South African Railways.


date: August 14

text: August 14 – The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse in California is completed and goes on line.


date: October 2

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


date: November 28

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


date: July 29

section: Science & Discovery

text: July 29 – Werner Heisenberg, Max Born and Pascual Jordan published their Umdeutung paper, reporting a breakthrough in quantum physics, in Zeitschrift für Physik in Germany.


date: January 27

section: Health & Medicine

text: 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.


date: April 15

section: Crime & Justice

text: April 15 – Fritz Haarmann, a serial killer convicted of the murder of 24 boys and young men, is guillotined in Germany.


date: April

text: April–October – The Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes is held in Paris, giving a name to the Art Deco style.


date: August 8

text: August 8 – The Ku Klux Klan, the largest fraternal racist organization in the United States, demonstrates its popularity by holding a parade with an estimated 30,000-35,000 marchers in Washington, D.C.


date: October

text: October – The major money forgery and fraud of Alves dos Reis is exposed in Portugal.


date: November 24

text: November 24 – The silent film El Húsar de la Muerte is released in Santiago, Chile.


date: March 31

section: Disasters & Accidents

text: March 31 – The Bauhaus closes in Weimar and moves to a building in Dessau designed by Walter Gropius.


date: May 8

text: May 8 – African-American Tom Lee rescues 32 people from the sinking steamboat M.E. Norman on the Mississippi River.


date: September 3

text: September 3 – The U.S. Navy dirigible Shenandoah breaks up in a squall line near Caldwell, Ohio, killing 14 crewmen.

source_section: Events › September


date: October 4

text: October 4 – S2, a Finnish Sokol class torpedo boat, is sunk during a fierce storm near the coast of Pori in the Gulf of Bothnia, taking with her the whole crew of 53.


date: February 28

section: Climate & Environment

text: February 28 – The 1925 Charlevoix–Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.


date: March 16

text: March 16 – At 22:42 local time a 7.0 earthquake shakes the Chinese province of Yunnan killing 5,000 people.


date: March 18

text: 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. It hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois; West Frankfort, Illinois; Gorham, Illinois; Ellington, Missouri; and Griffin, Indiana.


date: June 29

text: June 29 – The 6.8 Santa Barbara earthquake affects the central coast of California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), destroying much of downtown Santa Barbara, California and leaving 13 people dead.


date: March 6

section: Culture & Society

text: March 6 – Pionerskaya Pravda, one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded in the Soviet Union.


date: March 15

text: March 15 – The Phi Lambda Chi fraternity (original name "The Aztecs") is founded on the campus of Arkansas State Teachers' College in Conway, Arkansas (the modern-day University of Central Arkansas).


date: March 21

text: March 21 – Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortilèges, to a libretto by Colette, is premiered at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.


date: April 10

text: April 10 – F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby is published in New York.


date: April 19

text: April 19 – Colo-colo, a well-known football club of Chile, is founded in Macul, suburb of Santiago.


date: April 28

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


date: May 1

text: May 1 – The All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the world's largest trade union organisation, is founded in Guangzhou, Republic of China.


date: May 16

text: May 16 – The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1639/40) takes place in Paris.


date: June 14

text: June 14 – The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece is founded.


text: June 14 – The Turkish football club Göztepe is founded.


date: September 27

text: September 27 – Feast of the Cross according to the Old Calendar: a celestial cross appears over Athens, Greece, while the Greek police pursues a group of Greek Old Calendarists. The phenomenon lasts for half an hour.


date: October 1

text: October 1 – The United States Congress grants permission for Gutzon Borglum to begin constructing Mount Rushmore National Memorial on federal land in South Dakota.


date: November 14

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


date: November 26

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


date: December 14

text: December 14 – Wozzeck, Alban Berg's first opera, is premiered at the Berlin State Opera conducted by Erich Kleiber.


date: December 15

text: December 15 – Reza Shah takes the oath to become the first shah of Persia of the Pahlavi dynasty.


text: Lion Feuchtwanger's novel Jud Süß (translated as Jew Süss or Power) is published in Germany.


date: January 14

section: Births

text: January 14 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (d. 1970)

source_section: Births › January


date: January 26

text: January 26 – Paul Newman, American actor, film director, entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 2008)


date: May 19

text: May 19 – Malcolm X, African-American civil rights activist (d. 1965)

source_section: Births › May


date: May 23

text: May 23 – Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008)


date: June 8

text: June 8 – Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States (d. 2018)

source_section: Births › June


date: June 20

text: June 20 – Audie Murphy, American World War II hero and actor (d. 1971)


date: June 29

text: June 29 – Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician and 11th President of Italy (d. 2023)


date: July 28

text: July 28 – Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2011)

source_section: Births › July


date: October 16

text: October 16 – Dame Angela Lansbury, Irish-British-born American actress (d. 2022)

source_section: Births › October


date: October 23

text: October 23 – Johnny Carson, American comedian and television host (d. 2005)


date: November 10

text: November 10 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor, better known for his role in Cleopatra (d. 1984)

source_section: Births › November


date: November 20

text: November 20 – Robert F. Kennedy, American politician, Attorney General of the United States and a leading 1968 Democratic presidential candidate (d. 1968)


date: November 24

text: November 24 – William F. Buckley Jr., American journalist, author and commentator (d. 2008)


date: December 8

text: December 8 – Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer, musician and actor (d. 1990)

source_section: Births › December


date: February 28

section: Deaths

text: February 28 – Friedrich Ebert, 1st President of Germany (1919–1945) (b. 1871)

source_section: Deaths › February


date: March 20

text: March 20 – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India (b. 1859)

source_section: Deaths › March


date: March 30

text: March 30 – Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher (b. 1861)


date: May 13

text: May 13 – Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, British politician and colonial administrator (b. 1854)

source_section: Deaths › May


date: May 21

text: May 21 – The opera Doktor Faust, unfinished when composer Ferruccio Busoni died, is premiered in Dresden.


date: May 22

text: May 22 – John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, British World War I field marshal (b. 1852)


date: June 1

text: June 1 – Thomas R. Marshall, 28th Vice President of the United States (b. 1854)

source_section: Deaths › June


date: July 4

text: July 4 – Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Roman Catholic social activist and blessed (b. 1901)

source_section: Deaths › July


date: September 17

text: September 17 – Carl Eytel, German-American artist working in Palm Springs, California (b. 1862)

source_section: Deaths › September


date: October 7

text: October 7 – Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1880)

source_section: Deaths › October


date: October 20

text: October 20 – Jonah of Hankou, Russian Orthodox priest and saint (b. 1888)


text: November 20 – Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, consort of King Edward VII (b. 1844)

source_section: Deaths › November


date: November 26

text: November 26 – King Vajiravudh (Rama VI) of Siam (b. 1880)


date: December 5

text: December 5 – Władysław Reymont, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)

source_section: Deaths › December


date: January 3

text: January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece.

source_section: Events › January


date: January 21

text: January 21 – The Belgian Parliament accepts the Locarno Treaties.


date: February 25

text: February 25 – Francisco Franco becomes General in Spain.

source_section: Events › February


date: March 23

text: March 23 – Éamon de Valera organises the political party Fianna Fáil in Ireland.

source_section: Events › March


date: April 4

text: April 4 – Greek dictator Theodoros Pangalos wins the presidential election, with 93.3% of the vote; turnout is light, as the result is considered a foregone conclusion.

source_section: Events › April


date: April 24

text: April 24 – Treaty of Berlin: Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party, for the next five years.


date: April 25

text: April 25 – Reza Khan is crowned Shah of Iran, under the name "Pahlevi".


date: May 12

text: May 12–14 – May Coup: Józef Piłsudski takes over in Poland.

source_section: Events › May


date: May 20

text: May 20 – The United States Congress passes the Air Commerce Act, licensing pilots and planes.


date: June 4

text: June 4 – Ignacy Mościcki becomes president of Poland.

source_section: Events › June


date: June 7

text: June 7 – Liberal politician Carl Gustaf Ekman succeeds Rickard Sandler as Prime Minister of Sweden.


date: June 29

text: June 29 – Arthur Meighen briefly returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada during the King-Byng Affair.


date: August 22

text: August 22 – In Greece, Georgios Kondylis ousts Theodoros Pangalos.

source_section: Events › August


date: August 25

text: August 25 – Pavlos Kountouriotis announces that dictatorship has ended in Greece, and he is now the president.


date: September 1

text: September 1 – Lebanon under the French Mandate gets its first constitution, thereby becoming a republic, with Charles Debbas as its president.

source_section: Events › September


date: September 8

text: September 8 – The German Weimar Republic joins the League of Nations.


date: September 14

text: September 14 – The Locarno Treaties of 1925 are ratified in Geneva, and come into effect.


date: September 25

text: September 25 – William Lyon Mackenzie King returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada, after winning the Canadian federal election.


date: October 2

text: October 2 – Józef Piłsudski becomes prime minister of Poland.

source_section: Events › October


date: October 23

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


date: November 15

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

source_section: Events › November


date: November 27

text: November 27 – The restoration of Colonial Williamsburg begins in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States.


date: December 13

text: December 13 – Miina Sillanpää becomes Finland's first female government minister.

source_section: Events › December


text: Muthulakshmi Reddi becomes the first woman to be appointed to a legislature in India, the Madras Legislative Council.

source_section: Events › Date unknown


date: January 31

text: January 31 – British and Belgian troops leave Cologne.


date: April 7

text: April 7 – An assassination attempt against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini fails.


date: April 17

text: April 17 – Zhang Zuolin's army captures Beijing.


date: May 9

text: May 9 – The French navy bombards Damascus, because of Druze riots.


date: May 12

text: May 12 – The United Kingdom general strike is called off by the trade unions, although miners remain on strike.


date: May 26

text: May 26 – The Rif War ends, when Rif rebels surrender in Morocco.


date: May 28

text: May 28 – The 1926 coup d'état, commanded by Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal, installs the Ditadura Nacional (National Dictatorship), followed by António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo.


date: July 9

text: July 9 – In Portugal, General Óscar Carmona takes power in a military coup.

source_section: Events › July


date: July 10

text: 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.


date: August 1

text: August 1 – In Mexico, the entry into force of anticlerical measures stipulated in the Constitution of 1917 causes the Cristero War from August 3.


date: September 11

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


date: September 20

text: September 20 – The North Side Gang attempts to assassinate Al Capone, at the apex of his power at this time, spraying his headquarters in Cicero, Illinois with over a thousand rounds of machine gun fire in broad daylight, as Capone is eating there. Capone escapes harm.


date: October 16

text: October 16 – An ammunition explosion on troopship Kuang Yuang near Jiujiang, China, kills 1,200.


date: December 17

text: December 17 – 1926 Lithuanian coup d'état: A democratically elected government is overthrown in Lithuania; Antanas Smetona assumes power.


date: December 23

text: December 23 – Nicaraguan President Adolfo Díaz requests U.S. military assistance in the ongoing civil war. American peacekeeping troops immediately set up neutral zones in Puerto Cabezas and at the mouth of the Rio Grande to protect American and foreign lives and property.


date: March 6

text: March 6 – The first commercial air route from the United Kingdom to South Africa is established by Alan Cobham.


text: May 9 – Explorer Richard E. Byrd and co-pilot Floyd Bennett claim to be the first to fly over the North Pole in the Josephine Ford monoplane, taking off from Spitsbergen, Norway and returning 15 hours and 44 minutes later. Both men are immediately hailed as national heroes, though some experts have since been skeptical of the claim, believing that the plane was unlikely to have covered the entire distance and back in that short an amount of time. An entry in Byrd's diary, discovered in 1996, suggests that the plane actually turned back 150 miles short of the North Pole, due to an oil leak.


date: July 1

text: July 1 – The Kuomintang begins the Northern Expedition, a military unification campaign in northern China.


text: Stephen H. Langdon begins excavations in Jemdet Nasr, finding proto-cuneiform clay tablets (3100–2900 BCE).


date: January 8

text: January 8 – Ibn Saud is crowned ruler of the Kingdom of Hejaz.


date: February 12

text: February 12 – The Irish minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins, appoints the Committee on Evil Literature.


date: April 6

text: April 6 – Aarón Joaquín has a vision in the Nuevo León state of Mexico, origin of La Luz del Mundo, a nontrinitarian charismatic restorationist Christian church.


date: October 23

text: October 23 – The Fazal Mosque, the first purpose-built in London and the first Ahmadiyya mosque in Britain, is completed.


date: July 26

text: July 26 – The United States National Bar Association is incorporated.


date: January 16

text: January 16 – A British Broadcasting Company radio play by Ronald Knox about workers' revolution in London causes a panic among those who have not heard the preliminary announcement that it is a satire on broadcasting.


date: January 26

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


date: June 12

text: June 12 – Lithuanian Radio launches its service from Kauno radiofonas.


date: July 15

text: July 15 – Bombay Electric Supply and Transport Company in India introduces motor buses.


date: August 5

text: August 5 – In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system is experienced by audiences for the first time, in the movie Don Juan, starring John Barrymore.


date: August 6

text: August 6 – American Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel, from France to England.


date: August 18

text: August 18 – In the United States, a weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the Weather Bureau office in Washington, D.C.


date: November 11

text: November 11 – The United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, is established.


date: November 15

text: November 15 – The NBC Radio Network opens in the United States with 24 stations (formed by Westinghouse, General Electric and RCA).


text: Phencyclidine (PCP, angel dust) is first synthesized.


text: Industrial output surpasses the level of 1913 in the USSR after a period of economic downturn.


date: March 16

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


date: May 12

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


text: October 23 – A decree in Italy bans women from holding public office.


date: November 24

text: November 24 – Sri Aurobindo withdraws into seclusion following a spiritual realisation, entrusting the supervision of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram to "The Mother".


date: February 1

text: February 1 – Land on Broadway and Wall Street in New York City is sold at a record $7 per sq inch; it is only affordable for four more years.


date: May 18

text: May 18 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears, while visiting a Venice, California beach. She reappears nearly a month later claiming to have been kidnapped.


date: September 23

text: September 23 – Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey to become heavyweight boxing champion of the world.


date: November 10

text: November 10 – In San Francisco, a necrophiliac serial killer named Earle Nelson (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then rapes his 9th victim, a boarding house landlady named Mrs. William Edmonds.


date: November 25

text: November 25 – The death penalty is re-established in Italy.


date: November 26

text: November 26 – All Italian Communist deputies are arrested.


date: December 3

text: December 3 – English detective story writer Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey; on December 14 she is found under her husband's mistress's surname at a Harrogate hotel.


date: March 6

text: March 6 – The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon (England) is destroyed by fire.


date: March 14

text: March 14 – El Virilla train accident in Costa Rica: 385 people are killed and 93 injured when an overloaded pilgrim special derails on a bridge. The SS Ile de france Was Launched at Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyards in Saint Nazaire, France As one of the first ships to embrace the Art Deco style


date: April 30

text: April 30 – A state of emergency is proclaimed in the United Kingdom under the Emergency Powers Act 1920 on account of the "threat of cessation of work in Coal Mines".


date: May 10

text: May 10 – Planes piloted by Major Harold Geiger and Horace Meek Hickam, students at the United States Air Corps Tactical School, collide in mid-air at Langley Field, Virginia.


date: July 3

text: July 3 – A Caudron C.61 aircraft, operated by Compagnie Internationale de Navigation Aérienne, crashes in Czechoslovakia.


date: September 21

text: September 21 – French war ace René Fonck and three others attempt to fly the Atlantic, in pursuit of the Orteig Prize. Before the newsreel cameras at Roosevelt Field New York, the modified Sikorsky S-35 crashes on take-off and bursts into flames. Fonck survives, but two of his men are killed.


date: October 12

text: October 12 – British miners agree to end their strike.


text: November 24 – The village of Rocquebillier, in the French Riviera, is almost destroyed in a massive hailstorm.


date: December 2

text: December 2 – British prime minister Stanley Baldwin ends the state of emergency that had been declared due to the miners' strike.


date: September 18

text: September 18 – Great Miami Hurricane: A strong hurricane devastates Miami, leaving over 100 dead and causing several hundred million dollars in damage (equal to nearly $100 billion in the modern day).


date: October 20

text: October 20 – A hurricane kills 650 in Cuba.


date: January 8

text: January 8 – Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne as Bảo Đại, the last monarch of the Nguyễn dynasty of the Kingdom of Vietnam.


date: February 20

text: February 20 – The Berlin International Green Week, a food and agriculture fair, debuts in Germany.


date: May 4

text: May 4 – The United Kingdom general strike begins at midnight, in support of a strike by coal miners.


date: June 19

text: June 19 – King Roger, an opera about Roger II of Sicily by Karol Szymanowski, is premiered at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw.


date: September 19

text: September 19 – Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro) Stadium, well known among sports venues in Italy, officially opens in Milan.


date: September 25

text: September 25 – Henry Ford announces the 8-hour, 5-day work week.


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


date: October 14

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


date: October 19

text: October 19 – The 1926 Imperial Conference opens in London.


date: December 7

text: December 7 – The Council for the Preservation of Rural England, later the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), is founded by Patrick Abercrombie to limit urban sprawl and ribbon development.


date: December 26

text: December 26 – World première of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius's tone poem Tapiola by Walter Damrosch and the New York Philharmonic, the last substantial composition to be made public by the composer for the remaining 30 years of his life.


date: January 29

text: January 29 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)

source_section: Births › January


date: March 6

text: March 6 – Alan Greenspan, American economist, Federal Reserve Chairman (d. 2026)

source_section: Births › March


date: March 16

text: March 16 – Jerry Lewis, American comedian, humanitarian and philanthropist (known for The Nutty Professor) (d. 2017)


date: April 5

text: April 5 – Roger Corman, American filmmaker, producer, actor and businessman (d. 2024)

source_section: Births › April


date: April 28

text: April 28 – Harper Lee, American novelist (To Kill a Mockingbird) (d. 2016)


date: May 8

text: May 8 – Sir David Attenborough, British broadcaster, naturalist, and producer

source_section: Births › May


date: May 30

text: May 30 - Christine Jorgensen, American trans woman and actress (d. 1989)


date: June 18

text: June 18 – Avshalom Haviv, member of the Irgun underground organization in Mandatory Palestine (d. 1947)

source_section: Births › June


date: July 1

text: July 1 – Carl Hahn, German automotive executive, chairman of Volkswagen (d. 2023)

source_section: Births › July


date: August 15

text: August 15 – Sukanta Bhattacharya, Bengali poet and playwright (d. 1947)

source_section: Births › August


date: September 4

text: September 4 – Ivan Illich, Austrian philosopher and Catholic priest who founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación in Cuernavaca, Mexico (d. 2002)

source_section: Births › September


date: September 9

text: September 9 – Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Egyptian Islamic theologian (d. 2022)


date: October 11

text: October 11 – Thích Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk and peace activist (d. 2022)

source_section: Births › October


date: December 21

text: December 21 – Joe Paterno, American football player and coach (d. 2012)

source_section: Births › December


date: January 21

text: January 21 – Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1843)

source_section: Deaths › January–March


date: February 1

text: February 1 – Theodosius of Skopje, Bulgaria Orthodox religious leader and saint (b. 1846)


date: February 21

text: February 21 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)


date: February 24

text: February 24 – Eddie Plank, American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1875)


text: March 16 – Sergeant Stubby, World War I American hero war dog (b. 1916)


date: June 10

text: June 10 – Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect (b. 1852)

source_section: Deaths › April–June


date: July 9

text: July 9 – Mother Mary Alphonsa, American Roman Catholic religious sister, social worker, foundress and venerable (b. 1851)

source_section: Deaths › July–September


date: July 12

text: July 12 – Gertrude Bell, British archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator; known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq" (b. 1868)


date: July 26

text: July 26 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American statesman and businessman, son of 16th President Abraham Lincoln (b. 1843)


date: August 23

text: August 23 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)


date: November 21

text: November 21 – Joseph McKenna, American politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1843)

source_section: Deaths › October–December


date: December 10

text: December 10 – Nikola Pašić, Serbian and Yugoslav statesman, 33rd Prime Minister of Serbia and 4th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1845)


date: December 17

text: December 17 – Lars Magnus Ericsson, Swedish inventor and founder of Ericsson (b. 1846)


date: December 26

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

source_section: Events › December


date: April 12

text: April 12 – The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 renames the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The change acknowledges that the Irish Free State is no longer part of the Kingdom.

source_section: Events › April


date: April 18

text: April 18 – The Kuomintang (Nationalist Chinese) set up a government in Nanking, China.


date: May 9

text: May 9 – The Australian Parliament convenes for the first time in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Previously, the Parliament had met in Melbourne, Victoria.

source_section: Events › May


date: May 20

text: 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.


date: May 24

text: May 24 – The United Kingdom cuts its diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union due to revelations of espionage and underground agitation.


date: June 4

text: June 4 – Yugoslavia severs diplomatic relations with Albania.

source_section: Events › June


date: September 25

text: September 25 – A treaty signed by the League of Nations Slavery Commission abolishes all types of slavery.

source_section: Events › September


date: November 1

text: November 1 – İsmet İnönü forms a new government in Turkey (the 5th government).

source_section: Events › November


date: November 12

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


date: December 14

text: December 14 – Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.


date: December

text: December – The Communist Party Congress condemns all deviation from the general party line in the USSR.


date: January 24

text: 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.

source_section: Events › January


date: February 7

text: February 7 – An attempted military coup in Lisbon, Portugal, is successfully put down.

source_section: Events › February


date: February 12

text: February 12 – British troops land in Shanghai as a result of UK government concerns about the safety of residents in the British settlement.


date: February 19

text: February 19 – A general strike takes place in Shanghai in protest against the presence of British troops.


date: March 24

text: March 24 – Nanking Incident: After six foreigners have been killed in Nanking, and it appears that Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party forces will overrun the foreign consulates, warships of the U.S. Navy and the British Royal Navy fire shells and shoot to disperse the crowds.

source_section: Events › March


text: April 12 – April 12 Incident (Shanghai Massacre): Kuomintang troops kill a number of communist-supporting workers in Shanghai. The 1st United Front between the Nationalists and Communist ends, and the Civil War lasting until 1949 begins.


date: April 23

text: April 23 – Cardiff City wins the FA Cup, beating Arsenal 1–0; it is the only time a team from outside England has won the competition.


date: May 18

text: May 18 – Bath School disaster: A series of violent attacks by a school official results in 45 deaths, mostly of children, in Bath Township, Michigan, United States.


date: June 9

text: June 9 – The Soviet Union executes 20 people for alleged espionage in retaliation for the assassination two days earlier of Pyotr Voykov, the Soviet ambassador to Poland, at the railway station in Warsaw. Voykov had been shot by 19-year-old Boris Kowerda, an exiled Russian, in retaliation for having signed the death warrants in 1918 for Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial Family.


date: July 15

text: July 15 – July Revolt of 1927: 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; more than 600 people are injured.

source_section: Events › July


date: July 24

text: July 24 – The Menin Gate is dedicated as a war memorial at Ypres, Belgium.


date: August 1

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

source_section: Events › August


date: August 22

text: August 22 – 200 people demonstrate in Hyde Park, London, against the death sentences on Italian American anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. Other protests are held across the world at this time.


date: September

text: September – The Autumn Harvest Uprising occurs in China.


date: October 9

text: October 9 – The Mexican government crushes a rebellion in Veracruz.

source_section: Events › October


date: November 21

text: November 21 – The Columbine Mine massacre: Colorado state police open fire on 500 rowdy but unarmed miners during a strike, killing 6.


date: December 19

text: December 19 – Three members of the revolutionary movement for Indian independence – Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil, Thakur Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan – are executed by the British Raj. Rajendra Nath Lahiri had been executed two days before.


date: January 7

text: January 7 – The Harlem Globetrotters exhibition basketball team play their first ever road game in Hinckley, Illinois.


date: April 27

text: 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.


date: June 29

text: June 29–July 1 – Commander Richard E. Byrd, Bernt Balchen, George Noville and Bert Acosta take off from Roosevelt Field, New York, in the Fokker Trimotor airplane America, and cross the Atlantic to the coast of France, having to ditch there because of bad weather; all four men survive the emergency landing.


date: October 4

text: October 4 – Carving of the sculptures at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, begins.


date: July 10

text: July 10 – Timothy Coughlan, Bill Gannon and Archie Doyle, members of the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army, shoot dead Kevin O'Higgins, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State and Minister for Justice, as O'Higgins is walking to Mass in Dublin.


date: July 13

text: July 13 (Wednesday, Tamuz 13, 5687): 12:30 – Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn is freed from the imprisonment which began on June 15 (Wednesday, Sivan 15, 5687) at 02:15 in exile, in the Russian town of Kostroma.


date: April 21

text: April 21 – A banking crisis hits Japan.


date: January 1

text: January 1 – The British Broadcasting Company becomes the British Broadcasting Corporation, when its royal charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith becomes the first Director-General.


text: January 7 – The first transatlantic telephone call is made via radio from New York City, United States, to London, United Kingdom.


date: February 23

text: February 23 – The U.S. Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.


date: March 14

text: March 14 – Pan American World Airways is founded by Juan T. Trippe.


date: April 7

text: 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.


date: May 23

text: May 23 – Nearly 600 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers view a live demonstration of television at the Bell Telephone Building in New York City, just over a year after John Logie Baird of Scotland had first demonstrated an electromechanical system to members of the Royal Society in London.


date: May

text: May – Philo Farnsworth of the United States transmits his first experimental electronic television motion pictures, as opposed to the electromechanical TV systems that others have used before.


date: August 2

text: August 2 – American electrical engineer Harold Stephen Black invents the negative-feedback amplifier.


date: August 7

text: August 7 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario, and Buffalo, New York.


date: September 7

text: September 7 – The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.


date: September 18

text: September 18 – The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as CBS) is formed in the United States, and goes on the air with 47 radio stations.


date: November 12

text: November 12 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic, as the first vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River, linking New Jersey with New York City.


date: December 30

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


date: January 10

text: January 10 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.


date: February

text: 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.


date: March 29

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


date: May 20

text: 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.


date: June 4

text: June 4–6 – Clarence Chamberlin and Charles Albert Levine take off from Roosevelt Field, New York, and fly to Eisleben, Germany, in the Wright-Bellanca WB-2 Columbia aircraft Miss Columbia, two weeks after Charles Lindbergh's historic solo flight.


date: June 29

text: June 29 – Solar eclipse of June 29, 1927: A total eclipse of the sun takes place over Wales, northern England, southern Scotland, Norway, northern Sweden, northmost Finland, and the northmost extremes of Russia.


date: July 1

text: July 1 – The Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration (FDIA) is established as a United States federal agency.


date: October

text: October – Niels Bohr presents his theoretical principle of complementarity at the Fifth Solvay Conference on Physics.


date: December 17

text: December 17 – Australian cricketer Bill Ponsford makes 437 runs to break his own world record for the highest first-class cricket score at Melbourne Cricket Ground.


date: April 27

text: April 27 – The Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.


date: May 12

text: May 12 – British police officers raid the office of the Soviet trade delegation in London.


date: June 13

text: June 13 – Léon Daudet, the leader of the French monarchists, is arrested in France.


date: January 9

text: January 9 – The Laurier Palace Theatre fire at a movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.


date: May 17

text: May 17 – U.S. Army aviation pioneer Major Harold Geiger dies in the crash of his Airco DH.4 airplane, at Olmsted Field, Pennsylvania.


date: October 25

text: October 25 – The Italian ocean liner Principessa Mafalda capsizes off Porto Seguro, Brazil; at least 314 people are killed.


date: November 14

text: November 14 – Pittsburgh gasometer explosion: Three Equitable Gas storage tanks in the North Side of Pittsburgh explode, killing 26 people and causing damage estimated between $4.0 million and $5.0 million.


text: December 17 – United States Navy submarine is accidentally rammed and sunk by United States Coast Guard cutter John Paulding off Provincetown, Massachusetts, killing everyone aboard despite several unsuccessful attempts to raise the submarine.


date: February 14

text: February 14 – A magnitude 6.1 earthquake, with a maximum MSK intensity of VII–VIII (Very strong – Damaging), kills 50 in Yugoslavia.


date: March 7

text: March 7 – 1927 Kita Tango earthquake: A 7.0 earthquake kills at least 2,925 in the Toyooka and Mineyama areas of western Honshu, in Japan.


date: April 22

text: 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.


date: May 22

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


date: June

text: June – The volcanic island of Anak Krakatau begins to form in the Sunda Strait of Indonesia.


date: July 11

text: July 11 – The 1927 Jericho earthquake strikes Palestine, killing around 300 people; it is the largest ever recorded in this part of the Middle East. The effects are especially severe in Nablus, but damage and fatalities are also reported in many areas of Palestine and Transjordan, such as Amman, Salt, Jordan, and Lydda.


date: August 24

text: August 24–25 – The 1927 Nova Scotia hurricane hits the Atlantic Provinces of Canada, causing massive damage and at least 56 deaths.


date: September 29

text: September 29 – The East St. Louis Tornado kills 79 people and injures 550, the 2nd costliest and at least 24th deadliest tornado in U.S. history.


date: November 3

text: November 3–4 – Great Vermont Flood of 1927: Floods devastating Vermont cause the "worst natural disaster in the state's history".


date: December 29

text: December 29 – Eruption of the Perboewatan and Danan undersea volcanoes near Krakatoa, create the foundation for Anak Krakatau Island.


date: January 11

text: 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.


date: February 19

text: February 19 – In the United States, the silent romantic comedy film It starring Clara Bow, is released, popularising the concept of the "It girl".


date: March 4

text: March 4 – A diamond rush in South Africa includes trained athletes, who have been hired by major companies to stake claims.


date: May 11

text: May 11 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which will create the Academy Awards, is founded in the United States.


date: August 10

text: 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.


date: October 6

text: October 6 – The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, premieres at the Warner Theater in New York City. Although not the first sound film, and containing very little recorded speech, it is the first to become a box-office hit, popularizing "talkies" (although silent films continue to be made for some time).


date: December 1

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


date: January 13

text: January 13 – Sydney Brenner, South African biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019)

source_section: Births › January–February


date: February 20

text: February 20 – Sidney Poitier, Bahamian-American actor, film director, (Oscar winner for Lilies of the Field) (d. 2022)


date: March 1

text: March 1 – Harry Belafonte, Jamaican-American musician, actor, and civil rights activist (d. 2023)

source_section: Births › March–April


date: March 6

text: March 6 – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)


date: March 31

text: March 31 – César Chávez, American labor activist, United Farm Workers founder (d. 1993)


date: April 27

text: April 27 – Coretta Scott King, African-American civil rights leader, wife of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (d. 2006)


date: July 11

text: July 11 – Theodore H. Maiman, American inventor, physicist who developed the laser (d. 2007)

source_section: Births › July–August


date: August 9

text: August 9 – Marvin Minsky, American computer scientist, Turing Award winner (Artificial intelligence) (d. 2016)


date: August 18

text: August 18 – Rosalynn Carter, First Lady of the United States (d. 2023)


date: August 21

text: August 21 – Thomas S. Monson, 16th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 2018)


date: October 16

text: October 16 – Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)

source_section: Births › September–October


date: November 2

text: November 2 – Steve Ditko, American comic-book writer and artist (d. 2018)

source_section: Births › November–December


date: November 8

text: November 8 – Nguyễn Khánh, South Vietnamese politician and military leader, (d. 2013)


date: December 20

text: December 20 – Kim Young-sam, South Korean politician, 7th President of the Republic of Korea (d. 2015)


date: January 9

text: January 9 – Houston Stewart Chamberlain, English-born German author (b. 1855)

source_section: Deaths › January–February


date: January 17

text: January 17 – Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts USA (b. 1860)


date: January 27

text: January 27 – Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius, Lithuanian Roman Catholic bishop and blessed (b. 1871)


date: April 12

text: April 12 – Giuseppe Moscati, Italian doctor, researcher, professor and Roman Catholic saint (b. 1880)

source_section: Deaths › March–April


date: April 28

text: April 28 – Li Dazhao, Chinese intellectual, co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party (executed) (b. 1888)


date: June 1

text: June 1 – Annibale Maria di Francia, Italian Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1851)

source_section: Deaths › May–June


date: June 9

text: June 9 – Victoria Woodhull, American feminist, spiritualist and first woman to ever run for U.S. President (b. 1838)


date: July 5

text: July 5 – Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1853)

source_section: Deaths › July–August


date: July 23

text: July 23 – Reginald Dyer, British army officer, perpetrator of Jallianwala Bagh massacre (b. 1864)


date: August 23

text: August 23 – Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist (b. 1891) (executed)


text: August 23 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (b. 1888) (executed)


date: October 2

text: October 2 – John Dalzell, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (b. 1845)

source_section: Deaths › September–October


date: October 10

text: October 10 – Gustave Whitehead, German-born aviation pioneer (b. 1874)


date: November 23

text: November 23 – Miguel Pro, Mexican Jesuit and Roman Catholic priest, martyr and blessed (executed) (b. 1891)

source_section: Deaths › November–December


date: February 20

text: February 20 – The Japanese general election produces a hung parliament.


date: May 7

text: 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.

source_section: Events › May


date: August 2

text: August 2 – Italy and Ethiopia sign the Italo-Ethiopian Treaty.


date: August 27

text: August 27 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact is signed in Paris, the first treaty to outlaw aggressive war.


date: September 1

text: September 1 – Ahmet Zogu, President of the Albanian Republic, declares the country to be a constitutional monarchy, the Albanian Kingdom, with himself as King Zog I.

source_section: Events › September


text: October 2 – Arvid Lindman returns as Prime Minister of Sweden, with his right-wing rival Ernst Trygger as Foreign Minister of Sweden.


date: October 7

text: October 7 – Haile Selassie is crowned king (not yet emperor) of Abyssinia.


date: October 8

text: October 8 – Chiang Kai-shek is named as Generalissimo (Chairman of the National Military Council) of the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China.


date: November 1

text: November 1 – Turkey passes a law switching the country from the Arabic to the Latin-based modern Turkish alphabet.

source_section: Events › November


date: November 6

text: November 6 – 1928 United States presidential election: Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin, over Democratic New York Governor Al Smith.


date: November 17

text: November 17 – 1928 Australian federal election: Stanley Bruce's Nationalist/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with a decreased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by James Scullin.


date: January 1

text: January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, Joseph Stalin's personal secretary, crosses the border to Iran to defect from the Soviet Union.

source_section: Events › January


date: January 17

text: January 17 – The OGPU arrests Leon Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance and is exiled with his family.


date: April 10

text: April 10 – Pineapple Primary: The United States Republican Party primary elections in Chicago are preceded by violence, bombings and assassination attempts (two politicians are killed, Octavius C. Granady and Giuseppe Esposito).

source_section: Events › April


date: April 12

text: April 12 – A bomb attack against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini in Milan kills 17 bystanders.


date: May 3

text: May 3 – Jinan incident: An armed conflict between the Imperial Japanese Army (allied with Northern Chinese warlords) and the Kuomintang's southern army occurs in Jinan, China.


date: May 23

text: May 23 – A bomb attack against the Italian consulate in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 22 and injures 43.


date: June 8

text: June 8 – By seizing Beijing and renaming it Běipíng, the National Revolutionary Army puts an end to the 'Fengtian warlords' Beiyang government there.

source_section: Events › June


date: June 20

text: June 20 – Puniša Račić kills three opposition representatives in the Yugoslavian Parliament, and injures three others, in a gun attack.


date: July 17

text: July 17 – José de León Toral assassinates Álvaro Obregón, president-elect of Mexico.

source_section: Events › July


date: July 25

text: July 25 – The United States recalls its troops from China.


date: November 14

text: November 14 – the Afghan Civil War begins as rebels besiege Jalalabad.


date: December 6

text: December 6 – The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.

source_section: Events › December


date: March 24

text: March 24 – Excavation work begins after the old Canaanite city of Ugarit is accidentally rediscovered.

source_section: Events › March


date: June 9

text: June 9 – Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew complete the first flight across the Pacific Ocean, from the mainland United States to Australia, in the Fokker F.VII aircraft Southern Cross. Having left Oakland, California on May 31, they reach Brisbane via Honolulu and Fiji.


date: June 24

text: June 24 – A Swedish aeroplane rescues some survivors of the Italian North Pole expedition, including Umberto Nobile. The Soviet icebreaker Krasin saves the rest July 12.


date: March 15

text: March 15 – Chinese warlord Shi Yousan sets fire to the Shaolin Monastery in Henan, destroying some of its ancient structures and artifacts.


date: March 22

text: March 22 – The Muslim Brotherhood is founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna.


date: June 29

text: 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.


date: October 2

text: October 2 – Josemaría Escrivá founds Opus Dei.

source_section: Events › October


date: December 4

text: December 4 – Cosmo Gordon Lang is enthroned as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the first bachelor to be appointed in 150 years.


date: October 1

text: October 1 – Joseph Stalin launches the first five-year plan (1928–1932); the average nonfarm wage falls by 50% in the Soviet Union.


date: February 8

text: February 8 – Scottish-born inventor John Logie Baird broadcasts a transatlantic television signal from London to Hartsdale, New York.

source_section: Events › February


date: February 25

text: February 25 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C., becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.


date: February

text: February – The Ford River Rouge Complex at Dearborn, Michigan, an automobile plant begun in 1917, is completed as the world's largest integrated factory.


date: April 12

text: April 12 – 14 – The first east–west transatlantic flight by aeroplane takes place from Dublin, Ireland, to Greenly Island, Canada, using the German Junkers W 33 Bremen.


date: May 10

text: May 10 – The first regular schedule of television programming begins in Schenectady, New York, by General Electric's television station W2XB (the station is popularly known as WGY Television, after its sister radio station WGY).


date: May 30

text: May 30 – Rookie driver Louis Meyer wins his first Indianapolis 500 (he will win that race again, in 1933 and 1936).


date: June 28

text: June 28 – The keel of the first 1,000 ft (300 m)-long ocean liner, Oceanic, for the British White Star Line, is laid by Harland and Wolff in Belfast; construction is delayed, and cancelled on 23 July 1929.


text: June 28 – The International Railway (New York–Ontario) switches to one-man crews for its trolleys in Canada.


date: July 2

text: July 2 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories' W3XK station begins broadcasting on 6.42 MHz, using 48 lines.


date: July 3

text: July 3 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first colour television transmission in Glasgow.


date: July 7

text: July 7 – The first machine-sliced and machine-wrapped loaf of bread is sold in Chillicothe, Missouri, United States, using Otto Frederick Rohwedder's technology.


date: August 22

text: August 22 – Al Smith accepts the Democratic nomination for the US presidential election, with WGY/W2XB simulcasting the event on radio and television.

source_section: Events › August


date: September 3

text: 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.


date: September 11

text: September 11 – The first broadcast of a play by television, melodrama The Queen's Messenger, on General Electric's W2XAD from Schenectady, New York, utilising techniques created by Ernst Alexanderson. WMAK (Kenmore) begins broadcasting in Buffalo, New York.


date: September 25

text: September 25 – Paul and Joseph Galvin incorporate the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation (later known as Motorola and Freescale).


date: November 17

text: November 17 – Boston Garden opens in Boston, Massachusetts.


date: December 21

text: December 21 – The United States Congress approves the construction of Boulder Dam, later renamed Hoover Dam.


date: January

text: January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly demonstrating that DNA is the genetic material.


date: March 21

text: March 21 – Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for his first transatlantic flight.


date: April 19

text: April 19 – Publication of the original Oxford English Dictionary is completed after 70 years with issue of the last section ("wise – wyze") in Oxford.


date: May 15

text: May 15 – The animated short Plane Crazy is released by Disney Studios in Los Angeles, featuring the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse (in a non-distributed film).


date: June 17

text: June 17 – 18 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to make a successful transatlantic flight, as a passenger in a Fokker F.VIIb/3m piloted by Wilmer Stultz, from Newfoundland to Wales.


date: June 14

text: June 14 – Students take over the medical wing of Rosario University in Argentina.


date: September 28

text: September 28 – Scottish-born microbiologist Alexander Fleming, at St Mary's Hospital, London, accidentally rediscovers the antibiotic which he will call Penicillin.


date: October 12

text: October 12 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.


date: March 15

text: March 15 – March 15 incident: The Japanese government cracks down on socialists and communists, arresting over 1,000 people.


date: June 4

text: June 4 – Huanggutun incident: Zhang Zuolin, a warlord, is killed by Japanese agents in China.


date: August 16

text: August 16 – Serial killer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, D.C., for burglary. Later it will be discovered that he has committed multiple murders, rapes and other major crimes.


date: August 26

text: August 26 – In Scotland, May Donoghue finds the remains of a snail in her ginger beer, leading to the landmark negligence case Donoghue v Stevenson.


date: April 13

text: April 13 – The West Plains, Missouri Dance Hall explosion occurs.


date: May 24

text: May 24 – The airship Italia crashes at the North Pole; one of the occupants is Italian general Umberto Nobile. A rescue expedition leaves for the Pole on May 30. Roald Amundsen will be among those who lose their lives in the search for survivors.


date: November 12

text: November 12 – Liner develops a severe starboard list, is abandoned and sinks approximately 200 miles off Hampton Roads, Virginia; estimated deaths range from 110 to 127.


date: December 3

text: December 3 – In Rio de Janeiro, a seaplane sent to greet Alberto Santos-Dumont crashes, killing all on board. The pilot had tried to avoid another plane which came too close.


date: January 26

text: January 26 – The volcanic island Anak Krakatau appears.


date: April 14

text: April 14 – An earthquake occurs in Chirpan, Bulgaria, followed four days later by another in Plovdiv. Between them, they destroy more than 21,000 buildings, and kill almost 130 people.


date: April 22

text: April 22 – An Ms 6.0 earthquake affects southern Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 20 dead, and destroying 3,000 homes in Corinth; a non-destructive tsunami is also observed.


date: April 28

text: April 28 – 28 inches of snow fall in southern-central Pennsylvania, United States.


date: September 12

text: September 12 – The Okeechobee hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing 1,200 people.


date: September 16

text: September 16 – The Okeechobee hurricane kills at least 2,500 people in Florida.


date: February 11

text: 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.


date: May 31

text: May 31 – South Africa adopts a new national flag, based upon the Van Riebeeck flag or Prinsevlag (originally the Dutch flag), to replace the Red Ensign. It later became infamously known as the "apartheid flag" for being the flag of South Africa under Apartheid from 1948 to 1994.


date: June 9

text: June 9 – Ellis Park Stadium, a well-known sport venue of South Africa, officially opens in Johannesburg.


date: July 28

text: 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, and discus thrower Halina Konopacka of Poland becomes the first female Olympic gold medal winner for a track or field event. Coca-Cola enters Europe as sponsor of the games.


date: August 29

text: August 29 – F.C. Motagua is founded as an Association football club in Honduras.


date: August

text: August – Margaret Mead's influential cultural anthropology text, Coming of Age in Samoa, is published in the U.S.


date: October 22

text: October 22 – The Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.


date: October 25

text: October 25 – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (ICRM) is formally established, with the adoption of the "Statutes of the International Red Cross"


date: October 28

text: October 28 – The Second Youth Congress is held in Batavia, Dutch East Indies by young Indonesian nationalists, resulting in the Youth Pledge. The Indonesian national anthem, "Indonesia Raya", is introduced at the congress.


date: October

text: October – The women's organisation Gruaja Shiqiptare is founded in Albania, with Princess Senije as its chair.


date: November 9

text: November 9 – 16 – Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness (published on 27 July by Jonathan Cape in London, England) is tried and convicted on the grounds of obscenity due to its theme of lesbian love, following a newspaper campaign.


date: November 18

text: November 18 – Mickey Mouse makes his official debut in Steamboat Willie.


date: November 22

text: November 22 – The one-movement ballet Boléro (music by Maurice Ravel, choreography by Bronislava Nijinska) premières at the Paris Opéra, to a commission by Ida Rubinstein.


date: November 28

text: November 28 – Persija Jakarta Association football club is founded as Voetbalbond Indonesische Jacatra.


text: The women's organisation Anjuman-i Himayat-i-Niswan is founded in Afghanistan.

source_section: Events › Date unknown


date: March 18

text: March 18 – Fidel V. Ramos, 12th President of the Philippines (d. 2022)

source_section: Births › March


date: March 28

text: March 28 – Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-born American National Security Advisor (d. 2017)


date: April 6

text: April 6 – James D. Watson, American geneticist; recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2025)

source_section: Births › April


date: June 4

text: June 4 – Ruth Westheimer (Dr. Ruth), German-American sex therapist, film and television personality, and author (d. 2024)

source_section: Births › June


date: June 19

text: June 19 – Tommy DeVito, American musician and singer (The Four Seasons) (d. 2020)


date: July 26

text: July 26 – Stanley Kubrick, American film director (2001: A Space Odyssey) (d. 1999)

source_section: Births › July


date: July 27

text: July 27 – Joseph Kittinger, American colonel, U.S. Air Force pilot (d. 2022)


date: August 4

text: August 4 – Udham Singh, Indian field hockey player, winner of three gold and one silver medals (d. 2000)

source_section: Births › August


date: August 7

text: August 7 – James Randi, Canadian stage magician and scientific skeptic (d. 2020)


date: August 27

text: August 27 – Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party (d. 2023)


date: September 30

text: September 30 – Elie Wiesel, Rumanian-born Holocaust survivor, writer, lecturer, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d. 2016)

source_section: Births › September


date: October 1

text: October 1 – Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born South African actor (d. 1973)

source_section: Births › October


date: December 16

text: December 16 – Philip K. Dick, American science fiction author (d. 1982)

source_section: Births › December


date: December 26

text: December 26 – Martin Cooper, American inventor, "Father of the mobile phone"


date: January 13

text: January 13 – Earle Nelson, American serial killer and rapist (executed) (b. 1897)

source_section: Deaths › January


date: January 29

text: January 29 – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, British field marshal (b. 1861)


date: January 30

text: January 30 – Johannes Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1867)


date: February 1

text: February 1 – Hughie Jennings, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1869)

source_section: Deaths › February


date: February 4

text: February 4 – Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)


date: February 15

text: February 15 – H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)


date: February 26

text: February 26 – Juan Vázquez de Mella, Spanish scholar, politician (b. 1861)


date: June 14

text: June 14 – Emmeline Pankhurst, British women's suffrage campaigner (b. 1858)

source_section: Deaths › June


date: July 17

text: July 17 – Giovanni Giolitti, Italian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1842)

source_section: Deaths › July


date: August 19

text: August 19 – Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, British politician, lawyer (b. 1856)

source_section: Deaths › August


date: September

text: September (unknown date) – Ioan Culcer, Romanian general and politician (b. 1853)

source_section: Deaths › September


date: October 13

text: October 13 – Dagmar of Denmark, later Maria Fyodorovna, wife of Tsar Alexander III and Empress Consort of Russia (b. 1847)

source_section: Deaths › October


date: October 22

text: October 22 – Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)


date: November 17

text: November 17 – Lala Lajpat Rai (The Lion of Punjab), Indian independence movement leader (b. 1865)

source_section: Deaths › November


date: February 9

text: 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.

source_section: Events › February


date: February 11

text: 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".


text: February 26 – Grand Teton National Park is established by the United States Congress.


date: March 4

text: 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.

source_section: Events › March


text: March 4 – Charles Curtis takes office as the first multiracial Vice President of the United States.


date: April 3

text: April 3 – Persia signs the Litvinov Protocol.

source_section: Events › April


date: May 31

text: May 31 – The United Kingdom general election again returns a hung parliament; the Liberals in Parliament determine which party will govern.

source_section: Events › May


date: June 3

text: June 3 – The Treaty of Lima settles a border dispute between Peru and Chile.

source_section: Events › June


date: June 7

text: June 7 – The Lateran Treaty, making Vatican City a sovereign state, is ratified.


date: June 8

text: June 8 – Ramsay MacDonald forms the United Kingdom's second Labour government.


date: June 21

text: June 21 – An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow helps end the Cristero War in Mexico.


date: July 24

text: July 24 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).

source_section: Events › July


date: July 29

text: July 29 – the French prime minister Raymond Poincaré resigns, and is succeeded by Aristide Briand.


date: August 31

text: 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.

source_section: Events › August


date: September 5

text: September 5 – Aristide Briand presents his plan for the United States of Europe.

source_section: Events › September


date: October 3

text: October 3 – The country officially known as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes changes its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

source_section: Events › October


date: October 12

text: October 12 – 1929 Australian federal election: The Labor Party, led by James Scullin, defeats the Nationalist/Country Coalition Government, led by Prime Minister Stanley Bruce. Scullin will be sworn in on October 22. Notably, this is the first occasion in Australian political history where a sitting prime minister loses his own seat (the second being John Howard in 2007).


date: November 1

text: November 1 – Conscription in Australia ends.

source_section: Events › November


date: December 29

text: December 29 – The All India Congress in Lahore demands Indian independence.

source_section: Events › December


text: Slavery in Jordan is abolished.

source_section: Events › Date unknown


date: January 6

text: January 6 – 6 January Dictatorship: King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution.

source_section: Events › January


date: January 17

text: January 17 – Kabul falls to Habibullāh Kalakāni's forces, beginning a 9-month period of Saqqawist rule in Afghanistan while the Afghan Civil War continues.


date: February 14

text: February 14 – "Saint Valentine's Day Massacre": Five gangsters (rivals of Al Capone), plus a civilian, are shot dead in Chicago.


date: February 21

text: February 21 – In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang is defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.


date: March 3

text: March 3 – A revolt by Generals José Gonzalo Escobar and Jesús María Aguirre fails in Mexico.


date: March 28

text: March 28 – Japanese forces withdraw from Shandong province to their garrison in Qingdao, bringing an end to the Jinan Incident.


date: June 1

text: June 1 – The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.


date: July 27

text: July 27 – The Geneva Convention addresses the treatment of prisoners of war.


date: August 16

text: 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.


date: August 29

text: August 29 – The 1929 Palestine riots: 18–20 Jews are killed in Safed by Palestinian Arabs.


date: September 17

text: September 17 – A coup ousts Augustinas Voldemaras from his prime minister position in Lithuania; he is replaced by the brother-in-law of President Antanas Smetona, Juozas Tūbelis.


date: October 13

text: October 13 – Afghan Civil War ends.


date: October 22

text: October 22 – The government of Aristide Briand falls in France.


date: December 28

text: 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.


date: March 30

text: March 30 – Imperial Airways begins operating the first commercial flights between London and Karachi.


date: August 8

text: August 8–29 – German rigid airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin makes a circumnavigation of the Northern Hemisphere eastabout out of Lakehurst, New Jersey, including the first nonstop flight of any kind across the Pacific Ocean (Tokyo–Los Angeles).


text: January 6 – Albanian missionary sister Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, later known as Mother Teresa, arrives in Calcutta from Ireland to begin her work in India.


date: July 25

text: 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.


date: December 27

text: December 27 – Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".


date: July 24

text: July 24 – Union Airways Pty. Ltd. is founded, to be nationalised as South African Airways, on 1 February 1934.


date: September 3

text: September 3 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average peaks at 381.17, a height it would not reach again until November 1954.


date: October 24

text: October 24–29 – Wall Street Crash of 1929: Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange (10 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government).


date: January 10

text: January 10 – The first appearance of Hergé's Belgian comic book hero Tintin, as Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter..., au pays des Soviets), begins serialization in the children's newspaper supplement, Le Petit Vingtième.


date: March 2

text: March 2 – The longest bridge in the world at this time, the San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge, opens.


date: April 14

text: April 14 – The first edition of the Monaco Grand Prix is held.


date: June 27

text: June 27 – The first public demonstration of color TV is held, by H. E. Ives and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York. The first images are a bouquet of roses and an American flag. A mechanical system is used to transmit 50-line color television images between New York and Washington.


date: August 20

text: August 20 – John Logie Baird's experimental 30-line television system is first transmitted, by the British Broadcasting Corporation in London.


date: September 30

text: 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.


date: October 8

text: October 8 – Cubana de Aviación is founded.


date: November

text: November – Vladimir Zworykin takes out the first patent for color television.


date: July 27

text: July 27 – The Red Crescent is adopted as an additional emblem of the League of Red Cross Societies.


date: October 18

text: October 18 – On appeal from the Supreme Court of Canada on behalf of "The Famous Five" Canadian women in the landmark case of Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General), the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the United Kingdom announces that women are "persons" under the British North America Acts, and thus eligible for appointment to the Senate of Canada.


date: November 1

text: November 1 – An annular solar eclipse is seen over the Atlantic Ocean and Africa.


date: November 29

text: November 29 – Bernt Balchen, U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Captain Ashley McKinley and Harold June become the first to fly over the South Pole.


date: August 23

text: August 23–24 – The 1929 Hebron massacre: 65–68 Jews are killed by Palestinians and the remaining Jews are forced to leave Hebron.


date: October 25

text: October 25 – Former U.S. Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall is convicted of bribery for his role in the Teapot Dome scandal, becoming the first Presidential cabinet member to go to prison for actions in office.


date: December

text: December – New York toy salesman Edwin S. Lowe popularizes Bingo after coming across the game of "Beano" in Atlanta, Georgia. After someone accidentally yells "bingo" instead of "beano" with a group of friends in Brooklyn, New York, he begins production of the game, going on to develop more than 6,000 card combinations under the E. S. Lowe company, as the popularity of the game grows to become a national pastime.


date: August 29

text: August 29 – The collides with the oil tanker S.C.T. Dodd off the California coast, causing the San Juan to sink in 3 minutes, killing 77 people.


date: September 7

text: September 7 – The steamship SS Kuru sank in Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere, Finland, leading to 138 people drowning.


date: November 15

text: November 15 – Atlantic, a film drama about the sinking of the RMS Titanic, is released in the U.K. The simultaneously shot German-language version is the first sound film feature to be released in Germany.


date: May 1

text: May 1 – The 7.2 Kopet Dag earthquake shakes the Iran-Turkmenistan border region, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing up to 3,800 and injuring 1,121.


date: November 18

text: November 18 – The 1929 Grand Banks earthquake occurs.


date: January 17

text: January 17 – The comic strip hero Popeye first appears in Thimble Theatre.


date: January 29

text: January 29 – All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues), by Erich Maria Remarque, is published in book form.


date: March 17

text: March 17 – The second of the Davos University Conferences opens in Switzerland; this includes the Cassirer–Heidegger debate in philosophy.


date: October 6

text: October 6 – Serie A, the top-class professional football league of Italy, replaces the Divisione Nazionale.


date: November 7

text: 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; the curator is Alfred H. Barr.


date: January 11

text: January 11 – Nureddin al-Atassi, Syrian philatelist, 54th Prime Minister of Syria and 17th President of Syria (d. 1992)

source_section: Births › January


date: April 14

text: April 14 – Gerry Anderson, English television, film producer, director and writer, (Thunderbirds) (d. 2012)

source_section: Births › April


date: May 4

text: May 4 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born British actress and activist (d. 1993)

source_section: Births › May


date: May 29

text: May 29 – Peter Higgs, British theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2024)


date: June 7

text: June 7 – John Turner, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2020)

source_section: Births › June


date: June 18

text: June 18 – Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher (d. 2026)


date: July 2

text: July 2 – Imelda Marcos, former First Lady of the Philippines

source_section: Births › July


date: July 5

text: July 5 – Chikao Ōtsuka, Japanese actor, voice actor and father of Akio Ōtsuka (d. 2015)


date: July 28

text: July 28 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)


date: September 3

text: September 3 – Armand Vaillancourt, Québécois Canadian sculptor, painter and performance artist

source_section: Births › September


date: September 17

text: September 17 – Stirling Moss, British Formula One racing driver (d. 2020)


date: October 21

text: October 21 – Ursula K. Le Guin, American science-fiction, fantasy author (d. 2018)

source_section: Births › October


date: November 12

text: November 12 – Grace Kelly, American actress, later Princess of Monaco (d. 1982)

source_section: Births › November


date: November 13

text: November 13 – Fred Phelps, American pastor, activist (Westboro Baptist Church) (d. 2014)


date: January 13

text: January 13 – Wyatt Earp, American gunfighter and sheriff (b. 1848)

source_section: Deaths › January


date: May 21

text: May 21 – Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1847)

source_section: Deaths › May


date: September 23

text: September 23 – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)

source_section: Deaths › September


date: September 24

text: September 24 – Mahidol Adulyadej, Thai doctor, father of King Rama IX (b. 1892)


date: September 25

text: September 25 – Miller Huggins, American baseball manager, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1879)


date: October 3

text: October 3 – Gustav Stresemann, German statesman, 16th Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)

source_section: Deaths › October


date: October 5

text: October 5 – Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly, Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic priest and venerable (b. 1876)


date: October 20

text: October 20 – José Batlle y Ordóñez, 3-time President of Uruguay (b. 1856)


date: October 28

text: October 28 – Bernhard von Bülow, German count and statesman, 8th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)


date: November 1

text: November 1 – Habibullāh Kalakāni, deposed Emir of Afghanistan (b. 1891)

source_section: Deaths › November


date: November 6

text: November 6 – Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1867)


date: November 14

text: November 14 – Joe McGinnity, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1871)


date: November 24

text: November 24 – Georges Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France, leader during World War I (b. 1841)


date: December 10

text: December 10 – Frederick Abberline, Chief Inspector of the London Metropolitan Police, investigator in the Jack the Ripper murders (b. 1843)

source_section: Deaths › December


date: April 14

text: April 14 – Lucius Septimius Severus is proclaimed Emperor by his troops at Carnuntum, in Pannonia Superior (Balkans). He marches with his army to Rome.

source_section: Events › By place › Roman Empire


text: In Britain, Clodius Albinus allies with Septimius Severus, and accepts the title of Caesar. British tribes take advantage of the disorder in the Empire, and damage Hadrian's Wall. Extensive repairs to the defence work is carried out by the legionaries.


date: March 28

text: March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned off; Marcus Didius Julianus the highest bidder, offers 300 million sesterces for the throne. Roman governors Clodius Albinus (Britannia) and Pescennius Niger (Syria) claim, with support of their troops, the imperial throne.


date: June 1

text: June 1 – Septimius Severus enters the capital, and has Julianus put to death. He replaces the Praetorian Guard with a 15,000-man force from the Danubian legions, and gains control of the Roman Empire, beginning the Severan dynasty.


text: Last (4th) year of Chuping era of the Chinese Han dynasty.

source_section: Events › By place › China


text: Battle of Cyzicus and Battle of Nicaea (Asia Minor): Septimius Severus defeats the army under Pescennius.


date: January 1

text: January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard.


text: The Council of Rome, the pre-ecumenical council


text: The silver content of the Roman denarius falls to 50 percent under emperor Septimius Severus, down from 68 percent under Marcus Aurelius.

source_section: Events › By topic › Commerce


text: Counterfeiting workshops begin to appear throughout the Roman Empire.


text: Luo Tong, Chinese official of the Eastern Wu state (d. 228)

source_section: Births


text: Zhang Wen, Chinese official of the Eastern Wu state (d. 230)


text: March 28 – Pertinax, Roman emperor (assassinated) (b. 126)

source_section: Deaths


text: June 1 – Didius Julianus, Roman emperor (assassinated)


text: Cao Cao's invasion of Xu Province: Cao Cao invades Tao Qian's Xu Province, holding him responsible for the death of Cao Song.


text: Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus, Roman general and politician


text: Adrianus (or Hadrian), Greek sophist, philosopher and writer


text: Cao Song (or Jugao), Chinese official and father of Cao Cao


text: Liu Yu (or Bo'an), Chinese nobleman, official and warlord


date: January 26

text: January 26 – The Indian National Congress declares this date as Independence Day, or as the day for Purna Swaraj (Complete Independence).

source_section: Events › January


date: March 2

text: March 2 – André Tardieu begins his second term as Prime Minister of France.

source_section: Events › March


text: March 28 – The government of Turkey requests the international community to adopt Istanbul and Ankara, as the official names for Constantinople and Angora. The U.S. State Department adopts the "Istanbul" form in May.


date: March 29

text: March 29 – Heinrich Brüning is appointed Chancellor of Germany.


date: April 22

text: April 22 – The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty to regulate submarine warfare and limit naval shipbuilding.

source_section: Events › April


date: May 16

text: May 16 – Rafael Trujillo is elected president of the Dominican Republic.

source_section: Events › May


date: June 7

text: June 7 – Carl Gustaf Ekman becomes Prime Minister of Sweden, for the second and final time.

source_section: Events › June


date: July 28

text: July 28 – R. B. Bennett defeats William Lyon Mackenzie King in federal elections and becomes the Prime Minister of Canada.

source_section: Events › July


date: August 7

text: August 7 – R. B. Bennett takes office as the eleventh Prime Minister of Canada.

source_section: Events › August


date: September 14

text: September 14 – 1930 German federal election: National Socialists win 107 seats in the German Parliament, the Reichstag (18.3% of all the votes), making them the second largest party.

source_section: Events › September


date: September 27

text: September 27 – İsmet İnönü forms a new government in Turkey (6th government).


date: October 1

text: October 1 – British rule of Weihaiwei ends, as it is returned to China.

source_section: Events › October


date: October 27

text: October 27 – Ratifications are exchanged in London on the first London Naval Treaty signed in April, modifying the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. Its arms limitation provisions go into effect immediately, hence putting more limits on the expensive naval arms race between its five signatories (the United Kingdom, the United States, the Empire of Japan, France and Italy.)


date: October

text: October – The Indochinese Communist Party is formed.


date: November 3

text: November 3 – Getúlio Vargas becomes president of Brazil.

source_section: Events › November


date: December 29

text: December 29 – Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory, outlining a vision for the creation of Pakistan.

source_section: Events › December


date: December

text: December – All adult Turkish women are given the right to vote in elections.


date: February 10

text: February 10 – The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launch the Yên Bái mutiny in the hope of ending French colonial rule in Vietnam.

source_section: Events › February


text: March 2 – Mahatma Gandhi informs the British Viceroy of India that civil disobedience will begin the following week.


date: April 18

text: April 18 – The Chittagong Rebellion begins in India with the Chittagong armoury raid.


date: May 17

text: May 17 – French Prime Minister André Tardieu decides to withdraw the remaining French troops from the Rhineland (they depart by June 30).


date: July 3

text: July 3–10 – The First Eastern Women's Congress takes place in Damascus in Syria.


date: July 7

text: July 7 – The far-right Lapua Movement marches in Helsinki, Finland.


date: August 12

text: August 12 – Turkish troops move into Persia to fight Kurdish insurgents.


date: August 27

text: August 27 – A military junta takes over in Peru.


date: September 6

text: September 6 – 1930 Argentine coup d'état: José Félix Uriburu carries out a military coup, overthrowing Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina.


date: September 17

text: September 17 – The Kurdish Ararat rebellion is suppressed by the Turks.


date: October 24

text: October 24 – Revolution of 1930: Getúlio Vargas overthrows Washington Luís.


date: July 5

text: July 5 – The Seventh Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops opens. This conference approves the use of birth control in limited circumstances, a move away from the Christian views on birth control expressed by the Sixth Conference a decade earlier.


date: September 20

text: September 20 – The Eastern Catholic Rite Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed.


date: December 31

text: December 31 – The Papal encyclical Casti connubii, issued by Pope Pius XI, stresses the sanctity of marriage, prohibits Roman Catholics from using any form of artificial birth control, and reaffirms the Catholic prohibition on abortion.


date: June 17

text: June 17 – President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law, implementing protectionist trade policies in the United States. It has the incidental effect of defining an antique as older than 1830.


date: January 28

text: January 28 – The first patent for a field-effect transistor is granted in the United States, to Julius Edgar Lilienfeld.


date: January 30

text: January 30 – Pavel Molchanov launches a radiosonde from Slutsk in the Soviet Union.


date: April 21

text: April 21 – The Turkestan–Siberia Railway is completed.


date: May 15

text: May 15 – Nurse Ellen Church becomes the world's first flight attendant, working on a Boeing Air Transport trimotor.


text: July 7 – Building of the Boulder Dam (later known as the Hoover Dam) is started on the Colorado River, in the United States.


date: September 8

text: September 8 – Scotch Tape, invented by Richard Gurley Drew, is sold by the 3M company in the United States for the first time.


date: January 15

text: January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at in recent history, and the next one will be on January 1, 2257, at .


date: February 18

text: February 18 – While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh confirms the existence of Pluto, a celestial body considered a planet until redefined as a dwarf planet in 2006.


date: April 17

text: April 17 – Neoprene is invented by DuPont.


date: May 24

text: May 24 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Australia, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).


date: July 11

text: July 11 – Australian cricketer Don Bradman scores a world record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a Test match against England.


date: July 29

text: July 29 – British airship R100 sets out for a successful 78-hour passage to Canada.


date: December 24

text: December 24 – In London, inventor Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his device to project pictures on clouds.


text: Bernhard Schmidt invents the Schmidt camera.

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date: March 31

text: March 31 – The Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code) is instituted by the studios in the United States, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in films for the next 40 years.


date: April 6

text: April 6 – In an act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi breaks the salt laws of British India by making salt by the sea at the end of the Salt March.


date: June 14

text: June 14 – The Federal Bureau of Narcotics is established under the United States Department of the Treasury, replacing the Narcotics Division of the Prohibition Unit.


date: October 20

text: October 20 – The British Passfield white paper demands restrictions on Jewish immigration into Mandatory Palestine.


date: November 25

text: November 25 – Cecil George Paine, a pathologist at the Sheffield Royal Infirmary in England, achieves the first recorded cure (of an eye infection) using penicillin.


date: April 11

text: April 11 – Anglo-Indian hunter Jim Corbett shot the second of the man-eating tigers of Chowgarh.


date: October 14

text: October 14 – Ståhlberg kidnapping: The former and first President of Finland, Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, and his wife, Ester Ståhlberg, are kidnapped from their home by members of the far-right Lapua Movement but released unharmed.


date: April 21

text: April 21 – A fire in the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, United States kills 320 people.


date: October 5

text: October 5 – British airship R101, the world's largest flying craft, crashes in France en route to India, on its first overseas flight, resulting in the loss of 48 lives, with six survivors. Those killed include Britain's Air Minister, Christopher Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson.


date: March 6

text: March 6 – The first frozen foods of Clarence Birdseye go on sale in Springfield, Massachusetts.


date: May 6

text: May 6 – The 7.1 Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent); up to 3,000 people are killed.


date: August

text: August – The volcanic island of Anak Krakatau begins to form permanently in the Sunda Strait.


date: September 3

text: September 3 – The huge 1930 San Zenón hurricane in the Caribbean demolishes most of the city of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.


text: November 25 – An earthquake in the Izu Peninsula of Japan kills 223 people and destroys 650 buildings.


date: December 19

text: December 19 – Mount Merapi volcano in central Java, Indonesia, erupts, destroying numerous villages and killing 1,300 people.


text: March 6 – International Unemployment Day is observed in countries throughout the world.


date: March 12

text: March 12 – Mahatma Gandhi sets off on a 200-mile march towards the sea with 78 followers to protest against the British monopoly on salt in India; more will join them during the Salt March that ends on April 5.


text: April 6 – The International Left Opposition (ILO) is founded in Paris, France.


date: April 19

text: April 19 - Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) founded


date: May 10

text: May 10 – The National Pan-Hellenic Council is founded in Washington, D.C.


date: July 4

text: July 4 – The dedication of George Washington's sculpted head is held at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.


date: July 13

text: July 13 – The inaugural FIFA World Cup begins: Lucien Laurent scores the first goal, for France against Mexico.


date: July 19

text: July 19 – Georges Simenon's detective character Inspector Jules Maigret makes his first appearance in print under Simenon's own name, when the novel Pietr-le-Letton (known in English as The Strange Case of Peter the Lett) begins serialization in a French weekly magazine.


date: July 30

text: July 30 – Uruguay beats Argentina 4–2 to win the first FIFA World Cup final in Association football, at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo.


date: August 9

text: August 9 – The cartoon character Betty Boop debut in the Fleischer Studios short film Dizzy Dishes.


date: August 16

text: August 16 – The first British Empire Games open in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.


date: October 3

text: October 3 – The German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left is founded, following a split in the DSAP in Łódź.


date: November 2

text: November 2 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.


date: January 12

text: January 12 – Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player, co-founder of Tim Hortons fast food chain (d. 1974)

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date: January 20

text: January 20 – Buzz Aldrin, American pilot, astronaut (Apollo 11), second person to set foot on the Moon


date: January 23

text: January 23 – Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)


date: March 26

text: March 26 – Sandra Day O'Connor, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 2023)

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date: March 30

text: March 30 – Rolf Harris, Australian entertainer and convicted sex offender (d. 2023)


date: April 3

text: April 3 – Lawton Chiles, American politician, U.S. Senator (Florida), 41st Governor of Florida (d. 1998)

source_section: Births › April