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Birthdays

January 1 - Carole Landis, American film actress (d. 1948)
January 1 - J. D. Salinger, American novelist
January 5 - Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flautist (d. 1992)
January 13 - Robert Stack, American actor (d. 2003)
January 14 - Giulio Andreotti, Italian politician
January 14 - Andy Rooney, American journalist
January 20 - Juan García Esquivel, Mexican bandleader (d. 2002)
January 23 - Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (d. 1962)
January 23 - Bob Paisley, English Football player and manager. (d. 1996)
January 23 - Hans Hass, Austrian zoologist and underwater scientist
January 24 - Coleman Francis, American film director
January 25 - Edwin Newman, American journalist and writer
January 26 - Valentino Mazzola, Italian footballer (d. 1949)
January 27 - Ross Bagdasarian, American musician (d. 1972)
January 28 - Francis Gabreski, American fighter pilot (d. 2002)
January 30 - Nikolay Glazkov, Russian poet (d. 1979)
January 31 - Jackie Robinson, American baseball player
February 5 - Red Buttons, American actor (d. 2006)
February 5 - Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician
February 5 - Tim Holt, American actor (d. 1973)
February 11 - Eva Gabor, Hungarian-born actress (d. 1995)
February 11 - Eddie Robinson, American football coach (d. 2007)
February 12 - Forrest Tucker, American actor (d. 1986)
February 13 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, American musician (d. 1991)
February 13 - Eddie Robinson, American football coach (d. 2007)
February 17 - Kathleen Freeman, American actress (d. 2001)
February 18 - Jack Palance, American actor (d. 2006)
February 24 - Árpád Bogsch, Hungarian turned American international civil servant (d. 2004)
February 24 - Betty Marsden, English comedy actress (d. 1998)
February 25 - Karl H. Pribram, Austrian neuroscientist
February 26 - Mason Adams, American actor (d. 2005)
February 26 - Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (d. 2003)
March 2 - Jennifer Jones, American actress
March 2 - Tamara Toumanova, Russian ballerina and actress (d. 1996)
March 4 - Buck Baker, American racecar driver (d. 2002)
March 6 - Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (d. 2006)
March 10 - Marion Hutton, American singer (d. 1987)
March 15 - Lawrence Tierney, American actor (d. 2002)
March 17 - Nat King Cole, American singer (d. 1965)
March 18 - Christopher Challis, British cinematographer
March 23 - Carl Graffunder, mid-century modernist architect
March 24 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American author and publisher
March 24 - Robert Heilbroner, American economist (d. 2005
March 26 - Roger Leger, Quebec ice hockey player (d. 1965)
March 26 - Strother Martin, American actor (d. 1980)
March 28 - Vic Raschi, American baseball player (d. 1988)
March 29 - Eileen Heckart, American actress (d. 2001)
March 30 - McGeorge Bundy, American National Security Advisor (d. 1996)
March 31 - Frank Akins, American football player (d. 1993)
April 1 - Joseph Murray, American surgeon
April 7 - Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer
April 7 - Roger Lemelin, Quebec novelist and television writer (d. 1992)
April 8 - Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia (d. 2007)
April 9 - J. Presper Eckert, American computer pioneer (d. 1995)
April 12 - Billy Vaughn, American musician and bandleader (d. 1991)
April 13 - Roland Gaucher, French journalist
April 13 - Howard Keel, American actor
April 13 - Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American atheist activist (d. 1995)
April 13 - Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (d. 2000)
April 16 - Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer
April 16 - Tom Willmore, English geometer (d. 2005)
April 17 - Gilles Lamontagne, French Canadian politician
April 17 - Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-Mexican singer
April 18 - Virginia O'Brien, American singer and actress (d. 2001)
April 20 - Richard Hillary, Australian pilot and author (d. 1943)
April 21 - Don Cornell, American singer (d. 2004)
April 22 - Donald J. Cram, American chemist
April 23 - Oleg Penkovsky, Soviet double-agent
April 29 - Gérard Oury, French film actor and director (d. 2006)
May 1 - Lewis Hill, American pacifist and founder of Pacifica Radio (d. 1957)
May 1 - Dan O'Herlihy, Irish film actor (d. 2005)
May 3 - John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (d. 2004)
May 3 - Pete Seeger, American singer
May 4 - Dory Funk, Professional wrestler (d. 1973)
May 5 - Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek dictator (d. 1999)
May 7 - Eva Peron, Argentine first lady (d. 1952)
May 8 - Lex Barker, American actor (d. 1973)
May 9 - Arthur English, English actor and comedian (d. 1995)
May 14 - Solange Chaput-Rolland, French-Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2001)
May 14 - John Hope, American meteorologist (d. 2002)
May 16 - Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987)
May 16 - Ramon Margalef, Spanish scientist (d. 2004)
May 17 - Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor (d. 2007)
May 17 - Merle Miller, American biographer (d. 1986)
May 18 - Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (d. 1991)
May 20 - Gerhard Barkhorn, German fighter pilot (d. 1983)
May 20 - George Gobel, American comedian (d. 1991)
May 23 - Betty Garrett, American actress and dancer
May 30 - René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (d. 1969)
June 2 - Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (d. 2005)
June 5 - Richard Scarry, American children's author (d. 1994)
June 10 - Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (d. 2006)
June 10 - Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian Negotiator and community leader (d. 2007)
June 11 - Richard Todd, British actor
June 12 - Uta Hagen, American actress (d. 2004)
June 14 - Sam Wanamaker, American actor (d. 1993)
June 19 - Louis Jourdan, French actor
June 19 - Pauline Kael, American movie critic (d. 2001)
June 21 - Gérard Pelletier, French Canadian journalist
June 21 - Vladimir Simagin, Russian chess master and teacher (d. 1968)
June 21 - Paolo Soleri, Italian-born American architect
June 22 - Gower Champion, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1980)
June 23 - Muhammad Boudiaf, Algerian political leader (d. 1992)
June 26 - Richard Neustadt, American political historian (d. 2003)
June 29 - Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
June 29 - Lloyd Richards, American director (d. 2006)
June 30 - Ed Yost, American inventor (d. 2007)
July 2 - Jean Craighead George, American writer
July 6 - Ernst Haefliger, Swiss singer (d. 2007)
July 7 - Jon Pertwee, British actor (d. 1996)
July 8 - Walter Scheel, German politician
July 14 - Lino Ventura, Italian-born actor (d. 1987)
July 15 - Iris Murdoch, Irish writer (d. 1999)
July 16 - Choi Kyuha, President of South Korea (d. 2006)
July 16 - Hermine Braunsteiner, Nazi war criminal (d. 1999)
July 19 - Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet (d. 2005)
July 20 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountain climber (d. 2008)
July 24 - Robert Marsden Hope, Australian Justice (d. 1999)
July 24 - Ferdinand Kübler, Swiss cyclist
July 26 - Virginia Gilmore, American actress (d. 1986)
July 30 - Berniece Baker Miracle, half-sister of Marilyn Monroe
July 31 - Curt Gowdy, American sports announcer (d. 2006)
July 31 - Primo Levi, Italian author and chemist (d. 1987)
August 8 - Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer
August 9 - Joop den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1987)
August 9 - Ralph Houk, American baseball player and manager
August 10 - Sacha Vierny, French cinematographer (d. 2001)
August 11 - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (d. 1949)
August 12 - Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (d. 1971)
August 13 - Rex Humbard, American television evangelist (d. 2007)
August 13 - Sir George Shearing, British jazz pianist
August 15 - Huntz Hall, American actor (d. 1999)
August 15 - Benedict Kiely, Irish author
August 17 - Georgia Gibbs, American singer (d. 2006)
August 18 - Walter Joseph Hickel, 2nd and 8th Governor of Alaska
August 19 - Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (d. 1990)
August 23 - Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Russian mathematician (d. 1984)
August 24 - Enrique Llanes, Mexican professional wrestler (d. 2004)
August 25 - George Wallace, American politician (d. 1998)
August 27 - Murray Grand, American songwriter and cabaret singer (d. 2007)
August 28 - Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer Nobel Laureate (d. 2004)
August 30 - Kitty Wells, American singer
August 31 - Amrita Preetam, Indian poet and author (d. 2005)
September 1 - Ossie Dawson, South African cricketer
September 4 - Howard Morris, American comic actor and director (d. 2005)
September 6 - Wilson Greatbatch, American Inventor
September 7 - Alberic Schotte, Belgian cyclist (d. 2004)
September 8 - Gianni Brera, Italian journalist and writer (d. 1992)
September 9 - Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, American bookmaker and sports commentator (d. 1996)
September 9 - Gottfried Dienst, Swiss football referee (d. 1998)
September 13 - Mary Midgley, American philosopher
September 15 - Fausto Coppi, Italian racing cyclist (d. 1960)
September 15 - Nelson Gidding, American screenwriter (d. 2004)
September 16 - Laurence J. Peter, Canadian born educator and writer (d. 1990)
September 21 - Mario Bunge, Argentine philosopher and physicist
September 21 - Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani scholar (d. 1988)
September 24 - Dayton Allen, American actor and comedian (d. 2004)
September 26 - Barbara Britton, American actress (d. 1980)
September 26 - Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and researcher
September 27 - James H. Wilkinson, American mathematician (d. 1986)
September 27 - Johnny Pesky, American baseball player
September 27 - Charles Percy. American politician,
September 30 - Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (d. 1992)
September 30 - Patricia Neway, American soprano
October 3 - James M. Buchanan, American economist
October 5 - Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995)
October 7 - Sir Zelman Cowen, Australian politician
October 8 - Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2007)
October 11 - Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (d. 1990)
October 11 - Jean Vander Pyl, American voice actress (d. 1999)
October 12 - Gilles Beaudoin, Quebec politician (d. 2007)
October 15 - Malcolm Ross, American balloonist and atmospheric physicist (d. 1985)
October 16 - Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003)
October 17 - Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Russian physicist
October 18 - Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (d. 1996)
October 18 - Anita O'Day, American singer (d. 2006)
October 18 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
October 20 - Tracy Hall, American inventor (d. 2008)
October 22 - Doris Lessing, British writer
October 22 - Kathleen Ankers, American scenic designer (d. 2001)
October 23 - Manolis Andronikos, Greek archeologist
October 24 - Frank Piasecki, American aeronautical engineer (d. 2008)
October 26 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, Shah of Iran (d. 1980)
October 31 - Magnus Wenninger, American priest
November 3 - Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (d. 1995)
November 4 - Martin Balsam, American actor (d. 1996)
November 5 - Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher (d. 1978)
November 5 - Myron Floren, American accordianist The Lawrence Welk Show (d. 2005)
November 8 - P. L. Deshpande, Indian author (d. 2000)
November 10 - Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, Russian inventor
November 10 - George Fenneman, American radio and television announcer (d. 1997)
November 10 - Moise Tshombe, Congoian politician (d. 1969)
November 10 - François Périer, French actor (d. 2002)
November 11 - Kalle Päätalo, Finnish novelist (d. 2000)
November 14 - Johnny Desmond, American singer (d. 1985)
November 14 - Lisa Otto, German soprano
November 14 - Veronica Lake, American actress (d. 1973)
November 15 - Joseph Wapner, American judge
November 18 - Jocelyn Brando, American actress (d. 2005)
November 19 - Alan Young, British-born American actor (Mister Ed)
November 19 - Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (d. 2006)
November 21 - Steve Brodie, American actor (d. 1992)
November 22 - Máire Drumm, Irish civil rights activist (d. 1976)
November 24 - David Kossoff, British actor (d. 2005)
November 26 - Frederik Pohl, American science fiction writer
December 6 - Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (d. 1983)
December 8 - Peter Tali Coleman, American politician (d. 1997)
December 9 - William Lipscomb, American chemist
December 10 - Alexander Courage, American composer (d. 2008)
December 11 - Marie Windsor, American actress (d. 2000)
December 12 - Olivia Barclay, English astrologer (d. 2001)
December 12 - Dan DeCarlo, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
December 13 - Hans-Joachim Marseille, German flying ace of World War II (d. 1942)
December 15 - Max Yasgur, owner of the Woodstock Festival site (d. 1973)
December 23 - Kenneth M. Taylor, American pilot (d. 2006)
December 25 - Naushad Ali, Indian music director (d. 2006)
December 25 - Paul David, French Canadian cardiologist
December 25 - Noele Gordon, English actress (d. 1985)
December 31 - Tommy Byrne, American baseball player

Deaths

January 1 - Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (b. 1881)
January 4 - Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1843)
January 6 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)
January 6 - Max Heindel, Danish astrologer and mystic (b. 1865)
January 7 - Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist and philanthropist, (b. 1843)
January 15 - Rosa Luxemburg, German politician (b. 1870)
January 15 - Karl Liebknecht, German politician (b. 1871)
January 16 - Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, President of Brazil (b. 1848)
January 21 - Gojong of Joseon, Emperor of Korea (b. 1852)
January 27 - Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (b. 1877)
February 7 - William Halford, American naval officer and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1841)
February 16 - Vera Kholodnaya, Russian film star (b. 1893)
February 17 - Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)
February 21 - Kurt Eisner, German socialist (assassinated)
February 25 - Josef Christiaens, Belgian racing driver (b. 1879)
March 2 - Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary hero (b. 1812)
April 4 - William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (b. 1832)
April 8 - Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (b. 1848)
April 10 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1879)
May 4 - Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak politician
May 6 - L. Frank Baum, American writer (b. 1856)
May 14 - Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company (b. 1844)
May 17 - Guido von List, German occult author (b. 1848)
May 21 - Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1853)
May 24 - Amado Nervo, Mexican poet (b. 1870)
May 25 - Madame C. J. Walker, African American philanthropist and tycoon (b. 1867)
May 27 - Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian social activist (b. 1848)
May 29 - Robert Bacon, American politician (b. 1860)
June 29 - José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician, (b. 1864)
June 30 - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
July 15 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist
July 26 - Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836)
August 4 - Dave Gregory, Former Australian cricketer (b. 1845)
August 9 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (b. 1857)
August 11 - Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1835)
August 18 - Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (b. 1841)
August 20 - Greg MacGregor, England cricketer (b. 1869)
September 12 - Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer (b. 1871)
October 7 - Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
October 13 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer
October 29 - A. B. Simpson, Canadian preacher (b. 1843)
November 7 - Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (b. 1863)
November 9 - Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1848)
November 15 - Alfred Werner, German chemist
November 15 - Mohammad Farid, an influential Egyptian political figure.
November 22 - Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (b. 1852)
November 26 - Felipe Ángeles, Mexican Revolution general (b. 1868)
December 3 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French impressionist painter (b. 1841)
December 13 - Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (b. 1850)
December 28 - Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854)

Events

January 1 - Edsel Ford succeeds his father, Henry Ford, as president of the Ford Motor Company.
January 11 - Romania annexes Transylvania.
January 15 - Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps.
January 16 - Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
January 18 - World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
January 18 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
January 18 - Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
January 21 - Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin, Sinn Féin adopts Ireland's first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary.
January 22 - Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
January 25 - The League of Nations is founded.
January 31 - The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
February 5 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.
February 11 - Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
February 14 - The Polish-Soviet War begins.
February 21 - Kurt Eisner, German socialist, is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
February 23 - Benito Mussolini forms the Fascist Party in Italy.
February 25 - Oregon places a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
February 26 - An act of the U.S. Congress establishes most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park (see Grand Canyon National Park).
March 1 - March 1st Movement begins in Korea.
March 2 - The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
March 23 - In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
April 6 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a General Strike.
April 10 - Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
April 11 - The International Labour Organization is founded.
April 13 - The Establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
April 13 - Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India. At least 1200 wounded.
April 16 - Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the British slaughter of Indian protesters in the Amritsar Massacre.
April 19 - Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
May 4 - May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
May 8 - Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day.
May 15 - The Winnipeg General Strike begins. By 11:00 a.m., almost the whole working population of Winnipeg, Manitoba had walked off the job.
May 15 - Greek invasion of İzmir. During the invasion, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks. The responsible are punished by the Greek Commander Aristides Stergiades. Hasan Tahsin fires the first shot of the Turkish War of Independence.
May 16 - A naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
May 17 - War Department (UK) orders use of National Star Insignia on all airplanes.
May 19 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what was later termed the Turkish War of Independence. The anniversary of this event is the official date of commemoration of the Pontic Greek Genocide in Greece and Cyprus.
May 27 - The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
May 29 - Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total solar eclipse in Principe and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil.
May 29 - The Republic of Prekmurje founded
June 4 - Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
June 6 - The Republic of Prekmurje ends.
June 7 - Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four are killed.
June 11 - Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the Triple Crown.
June 14 - John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
June 15 - John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight at Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
June 20 - 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
June 21 - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.
June 21 - Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed were the last casualties of World War I.
June 23 - Estonian Liberation War: The decisive defeat of German Freikorps forces in the Battle of Cesis. This day is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
June 28 - The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria Hungary on the other side.
July 6 - The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
July 11 - The eight-hour working day and free Sunday become law in the Netherlands.
July 13 - The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
July 19 - Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and burnt down Luton Town Hall.
July 21 - The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
July 31 - German national assembly adopts the Weimar constitution (which comes into force on August 14)
August 11 - Constitution of Weimar Republic adopted.
August 19 - Afghanistan gains full independence from the United Kingdom.
September 4 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.
September 10 - Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
September 11 - U.S. Marines invade Honduras.
September 16 - The American Legion is incorporated.
September 17 - Massacre of Turkic peoples in the village of Hakmehmet, in Igdir Province, Turkey, by Armenians.
September 18 - The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
September 18 - Fritz Pollard becomes the first African-American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
September 22 - The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
October 2 - US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
October 7 - KLM of the Netherlands was founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
October 9 - Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "win" the World Series.
October 10 - Richard Strauss' opera Die Frau ohne Schatten receives its debut performance in Vienna.
October 28 - The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
November 10 - The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ending on November 12.
November 11 - The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the IWW.
November 11 - Lāčuplēšu day
November 17 - King George V of the United Kingdom proclaims Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day). The idea was first suggested by Edward George Honey.
November 27 - Haiti becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
November 28 - Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit as a British MP, although not the first to be elected
December 1 - Lady Astor becomes first female member of the British Parliament to take her seat (she had been elected to that position on November 28).
December 17 - Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
December 26 - Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee.
December 30 - Lincoln's Inn in London admits its first female bar student.

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