- January 24
- Itali's Benito Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union. [1]
- Russian city of Saint Petersburg is renamed Leningrad. [1]
- January 27
- Egyptian king Foead nominates Saad Zaghloel Pasja as premier. [1]
- Vladimir Lenin is placed in Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow. [1]
- January 29
- Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland, Ohio. [1]
- February 1
- New British Ramsay MacDonald government recognizes USSR. [1]
- February 2
- International Ski Federation (FIS) founded. [1]
- February 3
- Alexei Ryko elected as President of People's commission (succeeds Vladimir Lenin). [1]
- February 5
- The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips." [5]
- February 7
- Benito Mussolini government exchanges diplomats with USSR. [1]
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- February 9
- Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR. [1]
- February 13
- King Tut's tomb is opened. [1]
- February 24
- Greek parliament proclaims republic. [1]
- Mahatma Gandhi is released from jail. [1]
- February 27
- Belgium's George Theunis government falls. [1]
- February 28
- US begins intervention in Honduras. [1]
- March 1
- Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD is lifted. [1]
- March 3
- German and Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed. [1]
- March 5
- Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM. [1]
- King Hussein of Hedzjaz appoints himself kalief. [1]
- March 6
- British Labour government cuts military budget. [1]
- March 8
- Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate, Utah, USA. [1]
- March 9
- Italy annexes Fiume. [1]
- South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka). [1]
- March 11
- Third term of Belgium George Theunis government begins. [1]
- March 17
- Netherlands and USSR begin talks over USSR recognition. [1]
- Sweden and USSR exchange diplomats. [1]
- March 20
- Finnair begins scheduled flight of Helsinki-Tallinn. [1]
- March 21
- Mass Investors Trust becomes first mutual fund set up in US. [1]
- March 24
- Greece becomes a republic. [1]
- March 25
- Greek parliament selects Admiral Paul Koundouriótis as premier. [1]
- March 27
- Canada recognizes USSR. [1]
- New French government of Raymond Poincaré begins. [1]
- March 29
- Bayern and Vatican reach accord. [1]
- March 31
- London public transport strike ends. [1]
- April 1
- British crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co. [1]
- Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years labor but General Ludendorff is acquitted. [1]
- Imperial Airways is formed in Britain. [1]
- April 6
- Four planes leave Seattle, Washington on attempt at around-the-world flight (they succeed). [1]
- Italian fascists receive 65 percent of vote in parliament. [1]
- Völkische Block (National Socialists) receives 17.8 percent of vote in Bayern, Germany. [1]
- April 11
- Socialists win Denmark's parliamentary elections. [1]
- April 13
- Greek plebiscite for a republic. [1]
- April 15
- Flemish-Walloon riots in Louvain, Belgium; one dead. [1]
- April 16
- First radio-transmission of wireless, by Matthäus Passion. [1]
- Child labor laws strengthened in Holland. [1]
- April 17
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios is formed from a merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and the Louis B. Mayer Company. [1] [5]
- April 18
- First crossword puzzle book published (in USA by Simon and Schuster). [1]
- April 22
- Hague Chambers of Commerce forms, Netherlands. [1]
- April 23
- British Empire Exhibition opens at Wembley. [1]
- April 28
- 119 die in Benwood, West Virginia, USA coal mine disaster. [1]
- May 1
- Admiral Paul Koundouriótis becomes President of Greece. [1]
- May 2
- Netherlands refuses to recognize USSR. [1]
- May 4
- German Republic election: fascists and communists win. [1]
- May 7
- Peruvian Torre forms 004A, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana. [1]
- May 8
- Memel territories given to Lithuania. [1]
- Workers at Werkspoor in Amsterdam strike against third wage cut. [1]
- May 11
- Cartel des Gauches wins French parliamentary election. [1]
- Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire). [1]
- May 26
- German Government of Wilhelm Marx resigns. [1]
- US President Calvin Coolidge signs Immigration Law (restricting immigration). [1]
- June 7
- George Leigh-Mallory disappears 775 feet from Mount Everest's summit. [1]
- June 10
- Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists. [1]
- June 15
- Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth automobile. [1]
- June 26
- After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave the Dominican Republic. [1]
- June 28
- Tornado strikes Sandusky and Lorain in Ohio, USA, killing 93. [1]
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- The Johnstown achondrite diogenite meteorite falls in Colorado, USA. [523.103]
- Nicolai Aleksandrovich Morozov publishes first volume of Christ: The History of Human Culture from the Standpoint of the Natural Sciences in Russia. He suggests Chinese recorded history is shorter by almost 4000 years by reason of reported observed alignment of planets in the sky. [697.59]
- July 6
- Inventor and radio pioneer William Stevenson sends the first photo across the Atlantic by radio, from New York to England. [1] [457]
- July 12
- American forces leave the Dominican Republic. [1263.436]
- July 24
- The World Chess Federation FIDE is founded in Paris, France. [5]
- August 5
- Comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray, debuts. [1]
- August 23
- Mars makes closest approach to Earth since the 10th century. [1]
- September 25
- Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH. [1]
- September 28
- Two US Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops. [1]
- October 12
- Sokolnicheskaya Radio begins broadcasting from Moscow. [1]
- October 27
- November 6
- Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister of England. [1]
- Winston Churchill becomes British chancellor of the Exchequer. [1071.48]
- November 22
- England orders Egyptians out of Sudan. [1]
- November 26
- Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed. [1]
- November 27
- In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held. [5]
- November 30
- First photo facsimile is transmitted across Atlantic Ocean by radio. [1] [457]
- December 1
- Plutarco Elías Calles becomes President of México. [1]
- December 2
- British-German trade agreement signed. [1]
- December 7
- German election (Social Democrats win, National Socialists and Communists lose). [1]
- December 9
- Dutch and Hungary trade treaty signed. [1]
- Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian President. [1]
- December 10
- Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel Prize for medicine. [1]
- December 14
- Chiang Kai-shek occupies Hankou, China. [1]
- December 24
- Ahmed Beg Zogu seizes power of Albania, declares himself president of Albanian Republic. [995.36]
- School in Babb's Switch, Oklahoma, USA catches fire; 36 die. [1]
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