April 1st 1924 – Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch". However, he spends only nine months in jail, during which he writes Mein Kampf.

April 1st 1924 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.

Geez Philip. You might be the only one who can remember 90 years ago!  ;)

Geez Philip. You might be the only one who can remember 90 years ago!  ;)
Sometimes it feels like that!

May 10th 1924 – J. Edgar Hoover became the director of the Bureau of Investigation, which would later become the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

May 21st 1924 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murdered a 14-year-old boy in a thrill killing out of a desire to commit a perfect crime.

June 10th 1924 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.

August 28th 1924 – The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.

January 3rd 1925 – Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.

1925 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue.

1925 – The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.

A bit late, but... 27 Feb 1925, my maternal grandfather was born; he would live to be 60 years old (d. 1985). :\'( (So this past Friday would have been his 90th birthday.)

March 4, 1925: Calvin Coolidge was inaugurated for a full term as President of the U.S. (he had taken over in August of 1923 when President Harding passed away).

1925 – The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134 million members.

1925 – The first Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer is held at the University of Toronto, Canada.

1905 – The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.

May 14th 1925 – Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.

May 30th 1925 – May Thirtieth Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot and kill 13 protesting workers.

June 10th 1925 – The United Church of Canada, the country's largest Protestant church, held its inaugural service in Toronto's Mutual Street Arena.

June 16th 1925 – The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek, is established.

July 20th 1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.

July 18th 1925 – Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.

July 18th 1925 – Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.


Damn, it's been 90 years since he published Mein Kampf? Well, at least Germany wouldn't celebrate its anniversary due to their extreme anti-Nazi laws.

Damn, it's been 90 years since he published Mein Kampf? Well, at least Germany wouldn't celebrate its anniversary due to their extreme anti-Nazi laws.
I believe reading it is frowned on.

I believe reading it is frowned on.


Especially for the fact that it lead Hitler and the Nazis to take over Germany, kill over 11 million innocent people and started the Second World War.

Especially for the fact that it lead Hitler and the Nazis to take over Germany, kill over 11 million innocent people and started the Second World War.
Yes indeed.

Is it still sold in bookstores?

Yes indeed.

Is it still sold in bookstores?


I really don't know, but you can get the book online since I tried to search up the book title on Google.

I really don't know, but you can get the book online since I tried to search up the book title on Google.
Historians would read for research.

July 21st 1925 – American high school biology teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating Tennessee's Butler Act by teaching evolution in class.

July 21st 1925 – Sir Malcolm Campbell, father of Donald Campbell, becomes the first man to break the 150 mph (241 km/h) land barrier at Pendine Sands in Wales. He drove a Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph (242 km/h).

August 5th 1925 – The Welsh political party Plaid Cymru was founded with the goals of promoting the Welsh language and the political independence of the Welsh nation.

September 3rd 1925 – The USS Shenandoah, the U.S. Navy's first rigid airship, was torn apart in a squall line over Ohio.

September 6th 1905 - Chicago White Sox' pitcher Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0.

September 14th 1905 - RAC Tourist Trophy is first run on the Isle of Man.

September 22nd 1925 - New York Yankees' Ben Paschal hits two inside-the-park homers.

January 1, 1926: Flooding of the Rhine River struck Cologne; 50,000 were forced to evacuate their homes.

March 14th 1926 – El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica: A train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás. 248 are killed and 93 wounded.

March 15th 1926 – The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.

March 16th 1926 – History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

April 6th 1926 – Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).

April 20th 1926 – Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.

April 24th 1926 – The Treaty of Berlin is signed. 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.

May 9th 1926 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)

May 12th 1926 – The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.

May 12th 1926 – General Strike: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends.

May 15th 1926 - The New York Rangers were officially granted a franchise in the NHL. The NHL also announced that Chicago and Detroit would be joining the league in November.

May 17th 1926 - The U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires was damaged by bombs that were believed set by sympathizers of Sacco and Vanzetti.

May 18th 1926 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach.

"Dormont Hollywood Theater Screens 'The Third Man' As Part Of 90th Anniversary Celebrations"

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June 1st, 1926: American actors Marilyn Monroe (d. 1962) and Andy Griffith (d. 2012) were born.

June 14th 1926 – Brazil leaves the League of Nations

June 23rd 1926 – The College Board administers the first SAT exam.

June 23rd 1926 - The first lip reading tournament in America was held in Philadelphia, PA.

June 28th 1926 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.

June 29th 1926 - Fascists in Rome added an hour to the work day in an economic efficiency measure.

June 29th 1926 – Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.

September 9th 1926 - The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was created by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA).

September 10th 1926 - Germany joined the League of Nations.

September 11th 1926 - The U.S. won its seventh consecutive Davis Cup.

September 11th 1926 - In Honolulu Harbor, HI, the Aloha Tower was dedicated.

September 25th 1926 – The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.

October 14th 1926: The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.

November 11th 1926 – The United States Numbered Highway System is established.

November 15th 1926 – The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.

November 25th 1926 – The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.

December 9th 1926 - The United States Golf Association legalized the use of steel-shafted golf clubs.

December 30th 1926 - The Chicago Tribune broke a story that the Detroit Tigers threw a 4-game series to the Chicago White Sox in 1917.

January 1st 1927 – The Cristero War begins in Mexico.

January 11th 1927 – 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.

March 11th 1927 – In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.

March 15th 1927 – The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.

April 14th 1927 – The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.

April 15th 1927 - Serge Koussevitsky directed the Boston Symphony in the first performance of Frederick Converse’s symphony, "Flivver Ten Million."

April 30th 1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

May 1st 1927 – The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.

May 3rd 1927 - Francis E.J. Wilde of Meadowmere Park, NY, patented the electric sign flasher.

May 11th 1927 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.

May 31st 1927: The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.

July 4th 1927 – First flight of the Lockheed Vega.

Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.

August 10th 1927 - Mount Rushmore was formally dedicated. The individual faces of the presidents were dedicated later.

August 17th 1927 – The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.

September 2nd 1927 - Sophie Tucker recorded her song "Some of These Days." This version of the song was not released until about 30 years after it was recorded. The first part of the verse is narrated by Sophie Tucker and she tells how the song described the story of her life.

September 5th 1927 - Boston Red Sox beat New York Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings.

September 6th 1927 - The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth in San Francisco, California, USA.

September 13th 1927 - Waite Hoyt becomes the only 20-game winner of the 1927 New York Yankees.

September 14th 1927 - Gene Austin recorded "My Blue Heaven."

September 18th 1927 - Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System made its debut with its network broadcast over 16 radio stations. The name was later changed to CBS.

September 29th 1927 - Babe Ruth ties Major League Baseball record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games.

October 4th 1927 - Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.

October 4th 1927 - Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
One of the sights of the US i wish to see on my next visit.

One of the sights of the US i wish to see on my next visit.

I've not gotten to see it, simply because I've never been to South Dakota, but my dad has (when he was a kid).

I've not gotten to see it, simply because I've never been to South Dakota, but my dad has (when he was a kid).
We could had flown over South Dakota, but we did not have a window seat.

October 6th 1927 - Warner Brothers releases the film "The Jazz Singer" opening in New York City starring Al Jolson. The film was based on the short story "The Day of Atonement" by Sampson Raphaelson. The first motion picture with sound.

October 11th 1927 - Lou Gehrig elected Major League Baseball's Most Valuable Player.

October 25th 1927 – The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.

October 27th 1927 - The first newsreel featuring sound was released in New York.

November 3rd 1927 - Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vermont, USA).

May 7th 1928 – The Jinan incident begins with Japanese forces killing the Chinese negotiating team in Jinan, China, and going on to kill over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.

May 15th 1928 – Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".

Disney consider Mickey's birthday to be on November 18th, on the anniversary of the  released of the animated short Steamboat Willie in 1928, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.

June 9th 1928 – Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.

August 13th 1928 - WRNY in Coytesville, NJ, became the first standard radio station to transmit a television image.

September 15th 1928 - Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic penicillin in the mold Penicillium notatum.

September 15th 1928 - Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic penicillin in the mold Penicillium notatum.
Technically, he rediscovered Penicillium notatum, for it was already known to the ancient Greeks.

October 2nd 1928 – The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded by Josemaría Escrivá.

October 10th 1928 – Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.

Today marks the first day in US History that people are able to discuss something that occurred 90 years ago on the internet

November 1st 1928 – The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.

November 22nd 1928 - In Paris, "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel was first performed publicly.

December 2nd 1928 - Saint Louis Cardinals first baseman Jim Bottomley is voted National League Most Valuable Player.

December 19th 1928 - First autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US.

April 16th 1929 - Cleveland Indians' Earl Averill becomes first in American League to hit a homerun on first at bat.

May 1st 1929 - Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race record in 14.4 seconds.

May 16th 1929: In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.

May 18th 1929 - Brooklyn Dodgers beat Philadelphia Phillies 20-16 and lose 8-6 in second game (record 50 runs).

June 8th 1929: Margaret Bondfield became the first female member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom when she was named Minister of Labour by Ramsay MacDonald.

July 10th 1929 - In game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Philadelphia Phillies, 9 home runs are hit, one in each inning.

The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations on July 27th of that year.

August 21st 1929 - The Chicago Cardinals travelled out of town for training camp. They were the first professional football team to do this.

October 2nd 1929 - "The National Farm and Home Hour" debuted on NBC radio.

October 11th 1929: James Cash Penney (J.C. Penney) opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 (contiguous) U.S. states.

October 13th 1929 – Jože Plečnik unveils his memorial to Napoleon on the Square of French Revolution, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

October 24th 1929

- Song "Happy Days are Here Again" is published in the USA.

- In the U.S., investors dumped more than 13 million shares on the stock market. The day is known as "Black Tuesday."

Are the two connected?