January 20th 1921 – The first Constitution of Turkey is adopted, making fundamental changes in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle of national sovereignty.

February 15th 1921 – Kingdom of Romania establishes its legation in Helsinki.

February 25th 1921 – Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.

March 1st 1921 – The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.

March 7th 1921 - Cy Denneny (Ottawa Senators) scored six goals against the Hamilton Tigers.

March 12th 1921 – İstiklâl Marşı is adopted in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

March 15th 1921 – Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian Genocide is assassinated in Berlin by 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon thelirian.

March 15th 1921 – The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.

March 21st 1921 – The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism.

March 31st 1921 – The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.

April 2nd 1921 – The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.

April 11th 1921 - The first live sports event on radio took place this day on KDKA Radio. The event was a boxing match between Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee.

April 11th 1921 – Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.

May 6th 1921 - The American Soccer League was formed.

May 30th 1921 - The U.S. Navy transferred the Teapot Dome oil reserves to the Department of the Interior.

May 31st 1921 - Suffy McInnis began an errorless streak of 1,700 chances.

May 31st 1921 – Tulsa race riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.

June 10th 1921 - Babe Ruth became baseball's all-time home run leader with 120.

June 25th 1921 - Jock Hutchinson became the first U.S. citizen to win the British Open.

June 25th 1921 - Samuel Gompers was elected head of the AFL for the 40th time.

June 28th 1921 - A coal strike in Great Britain was settled after three months.

June 28th 1921 – Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.

June 30th 1921 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.

July 29th 1921 – Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.

August 3rd 1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.

August 3rd 1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.

A rather sad event in sports.


Six days later, my late maternal grandmother was born. (Hard to believe that she would have been 95 this month. She passed away 2 1/2 years ago, from a stroke.)

I am checking Wiki and there is no notable history for that day.

August 25th 1921 – The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur.

August 27th 1921 - The owner of Acme Packing Company bought a pro football team for Green Bay, WI. J.E. Clair paid tribute to those who worked in his plant by naming the team the Green Bay Packers.

August 27th 1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali (leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire) as King Faisal I of Iraq.

September 4th 1921 - The first police broadcast was made by radio station WIL in St. Louis, MO.

September 5th 1921 – Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: One of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.

September 10th 1921 - The Ayus Autobahn in Germany opened near Berlin. The road is known for its nonexistent speed limit.

September 11th 1921 – Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan to colonize Palestine and creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel.

September 20th 1921 - KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA, started a daily radio newscast. It was one of the first in the U.S.

September 21st 1921 – A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500-600 people.

October 8th 1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.

October 21st 1921 – President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.

October 26th 1921 – The Chicago Theatre opens.

October 29th 1921 – The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.

October 29th 1921 – Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in the United States of America.

October 29th 1921 – The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25-game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.

November 9th 1921 – The Italian National Fascist Party comes into existence.

November 11th 1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.

November 14th 1921 – Foundation of the Communist Party of Spain.

November 14th 1921 - In Chicago, IL, on KYW Radio, the first opera by a professional company was broadcast.

November 25th 1921 - The first play-by-play broadcast of a football game was aired in College Station, TX, via an amateur radio station. The game was between the University of Texas and Texas A&M in Austin.

December 6th 1921 – The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.

January 11th 1922 – First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.

January 23rd 1922:

At Toronto General Hospital, 14-year old Leonard Thompson received an injection of refined insulin by James Collip. This time the treatment was successful. John James Rickard Macleod and Frederick Banting would receive the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their research.

U.S. President Warren G. Harding opened an agricultural conference in Washington. In the conference's opening speech Harding proposed that the farming industry organize along the lines of other industries, with machinery of finance for furnishing operating capital.

Died: Arthur Nikisch, 66, Hungarian conductor.

March​10th 1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.

March 15th 1922 – After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.

March 20th 1922 - U.S. President Warren G. Harding ordered U.S. troops back from the Rhineland.

March​ 20th 1922 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.

May 1st 1922 - Charlie Robertson (Chicago White Sox) pitched a perfect no-hit, no-run game against the Detroit Tigers. The Sox won 3-0. Another perfect game did not come along until 46 years later.

May 2nd 1922 - WBAP-AM began broadcasting in north Texas.

May 5th 1922 - A contract was awarded to New York's White Construction Co. for the construction of Yankee Stadium I.

May 30th 1922: The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.

June 24th 1922 - The American Professional Football Association took the name of The National Football League (NFL).

June 30th 1922 – In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes–Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.

August 24th 1922 - First Philadelphia Phillies' player to hit for the cycle (Cy Williams).

September 1st 1922 - The first daily news program on radio was "The Radio Digest," on WBAY radio in New York City, NY.

September 5th 1922 - New York Yankees play final game at the Polo Grounds, after 7 years.

September 13th 1922 – The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.

September 21st 1922 - US President Warren G Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

October 2nd 1932 - Boston Braves play first NFL game, lose 14-0.

October 4th 1922 - The entire World Series of Baseball is broadcast over radio for the first time over WJZ New York City and WGY Schenectady.

October 4th 1922 - First facsimile photo sent over city telephone lines, Washington, DC.

October 8th 1922 - New York Giants beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 0, with a tie in 19th World Series.

October 19th 1922 – British Conservative MPs meeting at the Carlton Club vote to break off the Coalition Government with David Lloyd George of the Liberal Party.

October 27th 1922 – A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.

October 28th 1922 - First US coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game.

October 28th 1922 - Benito Mussolini took control of the Italian government and introduced fascism to Italy.

October 31st 1922 – Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy

November 1st 1922 – Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.

November 14th 1922 – The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom.

April 28th 1923 – Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.

June 9th 1923 – Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.

July 13th 1923: The Hollywood Sign is dedicated in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland," but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.

Happy 95th birthday to the Hollywood Sign!

October 6th 1923 - First National League unassisted baseball triple play (Ernie Padgett, Boston Braves against Philadelphia Phillies)

October 10th 1923 - New York Giants and New York Yankees become first teams to play each other for three consecutive World Series, also first played at Yankee Stadium (World Series #20).

October 31st 1923 – The first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia.

February 4th 1924 - First Olympic Winter Games close at Chamonix, France.

February 4th 1924 - First Olympic Winter Games close at Chamonix, France.

That's right, the Winter Olympic Games were first played back then! O0

February 5th 1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.

June 13th 1924 - New York Yankees win by forfeit over Detroit Tigers, their third forfeit win.

June 13th 1924 - New York Yankees win by forfeit over Detroit Tigers, their third forfeit win.

A Friday the 13th! >:D

Also, George H.W. Bush (who would eventually become the 41st President of the United States) was a day-old infant.

July 3rd 1924 - Clarence Birdseye founded the General Seafood Corp.

August 13th 1924 - "The Prisoner's Song" by Vernon Dalhart became the first country music record to sell one million copies.

August 25th 1924 - Washington Senators' Walter Johnson second no-hitter beats Saint Louis Browns, 2-0 in 7 innings.

September 16th 1924 - Jim Bottomley knocked in 12 runs in a single game setting a major league baseball record.

September 28th 1924 - The first around-the-world flight was completed by two U.S. Army planes when they landed in Seattle, WA. The trip took 175 days.

October 4th 1924 - New York Giants become first team to appear in four consecutive World Series (World Series #21).

September 28th 1924 - The first around-the-world flight was completed by two U.S. Army planes when they landed in Seattle, WA. The trip took 175 days.

October 4th 1924 - New York Giants become first team to appear in four consecutive World Series (World Series #21).


And halfway between those dates, on October 1st, American politician Jimmy Carter was born! He was the 39th President of the United States (serving one term, 1977-1981); and on his birthday three days ago, he became the first U.S. President to live to age 95!

October 15th 1924 - The Statue of Liberty is designated a US national monument.

October 27th 1924 – The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.

October 28th 1924 - Chicago White Sox beat New York Giants 8-4 in Dublin, less than 20 fans attend.

October 31st 1924: World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).

October 31st 1924: World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).
How much has been saved since? http://www.inthe00s.com/Smileys/halloween/grin.gif

November 1st 1924 - First US NHL franchise, Boston Bruins founded.

November 1st 1924 - Forest Peters of Montana State University hits 17 of 22 attempted field goals.

One day late...

November 4th 1924, Calvin Coolidge was elected to a full term as President of the United States. (He had taken over the presidency the previous August upon the death of Warren Harding.)

November 27th 1924 – In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

January 11th 1925 - Franc B Kellogg replaces Charles Hughes as US Secretary of State.

January 21st 1925 – Albania declares itself a republic.

February 5th 1925 - French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey, and Hugh Jennings.

February 24th 1925 - A thermit was used for the first time. It was used to break up a 250,000-ton ice jam that had clogged the St. Lawrence River near Waddington, NY.

March 13th 1925 - A law in Tennessee prohibited the teaching of evolution.

April 5th 1925 - New York Yankees whip Brooklyn Dodgers in exhibition 16-9 but Babe Ruth collapses in North Carolina due to an ulcer.

April 14th 1925 - WGN became the first radio station to broadcast a regular season major league baseball game. The Cubs beat the Pirates 8-2.

April 16th 1925 – During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.

April 26th 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.

May 5th 1925 – Scopes Trial: Serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.

May 5th 1925 – The government of South Africa declares Afrikaans an official language.

May 7th 1925 - Pittsburgh Pirates' shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play.

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

May 16th 1925 - First network radiocast (WHAS) of Kentucky Derby.

May 25th 1925 – Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.

May 25th 1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee.

May 26th 1925 - Detroit Tigers' Ty Cobb is first to collect 1,000 extra-base hits (ends at 1,139).

June 3rd 1925 - Goodyear airship Pilgrim makes first flight (first with enclosed cabin).

June 10th 1925 - The state of Tennessee adopted a new biology textbook that denied the theory of evolution.

June 22nd 1925 - France and Spain agreed to join forces against Abd el Krim in Morocco.

June 23rd 1925 - Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide Lake" (Gros Ventre, Wyoming, USA).

June 29th 1925 - Marvin Pipkin filed for a patent for the frosted electric light bulb.

November 5th 1925 – Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.

December 10, 1925: The Nobel Prizes for 1925 were awarded in Oslo. The honourees consisted of James Franck and Gustav Hertz (award for Physics), Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (Chemistry) and George Bernard Shaw (Literature). There was no Prize for Medicine that year. The Peace Prize was not awarded at the time either; Austen Chamberlain of the United Kingdom and Charles G. Dawes of the United States were named retroactively twelve months later for their roles in the Locarno Treaties and the Dawes Plan, respectively.

December 21, 1925: The Sergei Eisenstein film Battleship Potemkin was released in the Soviet Union.

January 3, 1926: Theodoros Pangalos declared himself dictator in Greece.

January 10, 1926: Mexican federal troops tracked down bandits responsible for the previous evening's train massacre to a ranch in Jalisco and engaged them in a shootout. Most of the rebels were killed in the fighting, and eight who were captured were immediately executed. All the stolen loot was recovered.

January 26th 1926 – The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.

April 15, 1926: Residents of Guominjun-held Beijing entered a state of panic as the army of Zhang Zuolin reached Tongzhou, within striking distance of the city.

May 23rd 1926 - Hack Wilson is first to hit a home run off Chicago's Wrigley Field scoreboard.

May 24th 1926 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000 metres (8:25.4).

October 24th 1926 - Harry Houdini's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit.

November 11, 1926: The United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, was established.

May 4th 1927 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is incorporated.

May 9th 1927 – Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.

May 21st 1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

May 27th 1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.

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

July 4, 1927: Sukarno (born Kusno Sosrodihardjo) founded the Perserikatan Nasional Indonesia, seeking independence from the Netherlands. In 1945, he would become the first President of Indonesia.

Also the 151st anniversary of the United States

August 23rd 1927 – Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.

April 9th 1928 - Mae West's NYC debut in a daring new play "Diamond Lil"

April 14th 1928 – The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada, completing the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.