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Birthdays

January 1 - Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian philosopher (d. 1986)
January 2 - Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
January 3 - John Russell, American actor (d. 1991)
January 5 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990)
January 5 - Paul Governali, American professional football player (d. 1978)
January 5 - Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
January 6 - Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (d. 1998)
January 8 - Herta Bothe, Nazi concentration camp guard
January 9 - Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006)
January 10 - Rodger Ward, American race car driver (d. 2004)
January 11 - Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (d. 1990)
January 11 - Juanita M. Kreps, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
January 13 - Dachine Rainer, British writer (d. 2000)
January 14 - Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (d. 2006)
January 15 - Frank Thornton, English actor
January 16 - Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (d. 2004)
January 17 - Antonio Prohias, Cuban cartoonist (d. 1998)
January 19 - "Billy Batts" Devino, American gangster (d. 1970)
January 19 - Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
January 20 - Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (d. 2006)
January 21 - Howard Unruh, American mass murderer
January 26 - Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (d. 1999)
January 26 - Eddie Barclay, French producer (Barclay Records) (d. 2005)
January 27 - Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)
January 29 - Anthony George, American actor (d. 2005)
January 31 - John Agar, American actor (d. 2002)
January 31 - Carol Channing, American actress and singer
January 31 - E. Fay Jones, American architect (d. 2004)
January 31 - Mario Lanza, American singer (d. 1959)
February 4 - Betty Friedan, American feminist (d. 2006)
February 5 - John Pritchard, British conductor (d. 1989)
February 8 - Lana Turner, American actress (d. 1995)
February 11 - Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (d. 2006)
February 11 - Edward Seidensticker, American scholar (d. 2007)
February 14 - Hugh Downs, American television host
February 15 - Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (d. 1985)
February 16 - Jean Behra, French Formula One driver (d. 1959)
February 16 - Araucaria, British crossword compiler
February 16 - Vera-Ellen, American actress (d. 1981)
February 21 - John Rawls, American philosopher (d. 2002)
February 22 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Central African Republic leader (d. 1996)
February 22 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
February 22 - David Greene, British television director (d. 2003)
February 22 - Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (d. 1994)
February 24 - Gaston Reiff, Belgian athlete (b. 1992)
February 24 - Abe Vigoda, American actor
February 24 - Douglass Watson, American actor (d. 1989)
February 25 - Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (d. 1970)
February 26 - Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (d. 2007)
February 28 - Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (d. 2006)
March 1 - Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Catholic archbishop (d. 1983)
March 1 - Richard Wilbur, American poet
March 4 - Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born composer
March 4 - Joan Greenwood, English actress (d. 1987)
March 4 - Wilson Harris, Guyanese writer
March 4 - Dinny Pails, Australian tennis player
March 5 - Elmer Valo, American baseball player (d. 1998)
March 8 - Alan Hale, Jr.
March 9 - Carl Betz, American actor (d. 1978)
March 9 - Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (d. 1998)
March 11 - Frank Harary, American mathematician (d. 2005)
March 11 - Ástor Piazzolla, Argentine composer (d. 1992)
March 12 - Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (d. 2003)
March 12 - Ülo Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter (d. 2007)
March 12 - Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor (d. 1986)
March 13 - Al Jaffee, American cartoonist
March 14 - S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A
March 15 - Stafford Smythe, Canadian hockey executive (d. 1971)
March 15 - Madelyn Pugh, American television writer
March 19 - Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (d. 1984)
March 20 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer (d. 1973)
March 21 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (d. 1986)
March 22 - Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (d. 2004)
March 23 - Donald Campbell, British car and motorboat racer (d. 1967)
March 24 - Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player
March 25 - Nancy Kelly, American actress (d. 1995)
March 25 - Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)
March 25 - Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, Queen of Yugoslavia (d. 1993)
March 27 - Harold Nicholas, American dancer (d. 2000)
March 28 - Dirk Bogarde, English actor (d. 1999)
March 28 - Herschel Grynszpan, German political assassin (d. between 1943 and 1945)
April 1 - Ken Reardon, Canadian ice hockey player
April 3 - Robert Karvelas, American actor (d. 1991)
April 3 - Darío Moreno, Turkish-Jewish singer and songwriter (d. 1968)
April 3 - Jan Sterling, American actress (d. 2004)
April 8 - Alfie Bass, English actor (d. 1987)
April 8 - Franco Corelli, Italian tenor (d. 2003)
April 8 - Jan Novák, Czech composer (d. 1984)
April 9 - Jean-Marie Balestre, French motorsports official (FIA) (d. 2008)
April 9 - Frankie Thomas, American actor (d. 2006)
April 10 - Chuck Connors, American actor (d. 1992)
April 10 - Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (d. 2003)
April 11 - Jim Hearn, American baseball player (d. 1998)
April 12 - Robert Cliche, Quebec politician and magistrate (d. 1978)
April 14 - Thomas Schelling, American economist
April 15 - Georgi Beregovoi, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1995)
April 16 - Peter Ustinov, English actor (d. 2004)
April 18 - Jean Richard, French actor (d. 2001)
April 20 - Janine Sutto, French-Canadian actress
April 23 - Janet Blair, American actress (d. 2007)
April 23 - Warren Spahn, American baseball player (d. 2003)
April 25 - Karel Appel, Dutch painter (d. 2006)
April 27 - John Stott, British theologian and clergyman
April 28 - Rowland Evans, American journalist (d. 2001)
May 2 - Satyajit Ray, Indian director (d. 1992)
May 3 - Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (d. 1989)
May 3 - Joe Ames, American singer (d. 2007)
May 4 - Edo Murtiæ, Croatian painter (d. 2005)
May 5 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist
May 6 - Erich Fried, German author (d. 1988)
May 9 - Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)
May 9 - Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004)
May 9 - Daniel Berrigan, American peace activist
May 11 - Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician
May 12 - Joseph Beuys, German artist (d. 1986)
May 12 - Farley Mowat, Canadian writer and naturalist
May 14 - Richard Deacon, American actor (d. 1984)
May 14 - Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor (d. 2007)
May 16 - Harry Carey, Jr.
May 17 - Dennis Brain, English French horn player (d. 1957)
May 17 - Bob Merrill, American composer and lyricist (d. 1998)
May 19 - Yuri Kochiyama, American civil rights activist
May 19 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (d. 1999)
May 19 - Daniel Gélin, French actor (d. 2002)
May 20 - Wolfgang Borchert, German writer (d. 1947)
May 20 - Hal Newhouser, American baseball player (d. 1998)
May 21 - Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist (d. 1989)
May 23 - James Blish, American author (d. 1975)
May 23 - Humphrey Lyttelton, English musician (d. 2008)
May 25 - Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist
May 25 - Hal David, American lyricist and songwriter
May 27 - Caryl Chessman, American robber and rapist (d. 1960)
May 28 - Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999)
May 31 - Alida Valli, Italian actress (d. 2006)
May 31 - Howard Reig, American radio and television announcer
June 1 - Nelson Riddle, American bandleader and arranger (d. 1985)
June 3 - Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete
June 4 - Bobby Wanzer, American professional basketball player and coach
June 7 - Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (d. 1998)
June 8 - LeRoy Neiman, American painter
June 8 - Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (d. 1993)
June 8 - Suharto, President of Indonesia (d. 2008)
June 9 - Arthur Hertzberg, American Jewish scholar (d. 2006)
June 10 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
June 10 - Jean Robic, French cyclist (d. 1980)
June 12 - Christopher Derrick, British writer (d. 2007)
June 12 - James Houston, Canadian artist (d. 2005)
June 14 - Gene Barry, American actor
June 15 - Errol Garner, American musician (d. 1977)
June 21 - Judy Holliday, American actress (d. 1965)
June 21 - Jane Russell, American actress
June 21 - Jean de Broglie, French politician
June 22 - Joseph Papp, American director and producer (d. 1991)
June 25 - Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer (d. 2007)
June 26 - Violette Szabo, French WWII secret agent (d. 1945)
June 27 - Muriel Pavlow, British actress
June 28 - P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)
June 29 - Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000)
July 1 - Seretse Khama, first President of Botswana (d. 1980)
July 3 - Susan Peters, American actress (d. 1952)
July 4 - Gerard Debreu, French economist
July 4 - Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist (d. 2003)
July 6 - Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the United States
July 7 - Adolf von Thadden, German politician (d. 1996)
July 7 - Ezzard Charles, American boxer (d. 1975)
July 10 - Harvey Ball, American inventor (d. 2001)
July 10 - Jake LaMotta, American boxer
July 10 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist
July 11 - Ilse Werner, Dutch-born actress
July 12 - Bob Fillion, French Canadian ice hockey player
July 13 - Git Gay, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2007)
July 13 - Ernest Gold, Austrian composer (d. 1999)
July 13 - Friedrich Peter, Austrian poltitician (d. 2005)
July 14 - Leon Garfield, English children's author (d. 1996)
July 14 - Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist
July 15 - Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist
July 15 - Henri Colpi, French film director (d. 2006)
July 17 - František Zvarík, Slovakian actor
July 18 - John Glenn, American astronaut and politician
July 19 - Rosalyn Yalow, American physicist
July 22 - William Roth, U.S. Senator (d. 2003)
July 23 - Calvert DeForest, American actor (d. 2007)
July 24 - Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (d. 2008)
July 26 - Jean Shepherd, American writer (d. 1999)
July 27 - Émile Genest, Quebec actor (d. 2003)
July 29 - Richard Egan, American actor (d. 1987)
July 30 - Grant Johannesen, American pianist (d. 2005)
July 31 - Whitney Young, American civil rights activist (d. 1971)
July 31 - Peter Benenson, British founder of Amnesty International (d. 2005)
August 1 - Jack Kramer, American tennis player
August 3 - Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (d. 1972)
August 3 - Hayden Carruth, American poet and literary critic
August 4 - Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2000)
August 7 - Manitas de Plata, Gypsy guitarist
August 8 - William Asher, American film producer
August 8 - John Herbert Chapman, British physicist (d. 1979)
August 8 - Webb Pierce, American singer (d. 1991)
August 8 - Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian medical scientist (d. 2001)
August 8 - Esther Williams, American actress and swimmer
August 9 - J. James Exon, American politician
August 9 - Ernest Angley, televangelist
August 11 - Alex Haley, American historian (d. 1992)
August 17 - Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, British historian (d. 1994)
August 18 - Zdzis³aw ¯ygulski, Jr.
August 19 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (d. 1991)
August 20 - Jack Wilson, Australian cricketer (d. 1985)
August 23 - Kenneth Arrow, American economist
August 23 - Sam Cook, England cricketer (d. 1996)
August 24 - Sam Tingle, Zimbabwean racing driver
August 25 - Monty Hall, Canadian-born game show host
August 25 - Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (d. 1999)
August 25 - Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (d. 1999)
August 26 - Benjamin Bradlee, American journalist
August 27 - Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg
August 27 - Leo Penn, American film director (d. 1998)
August 28 - Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor
August 28 - Nancy Kulp, American actress (d. 1991)
August 31 - Raymond Williams, Welsh academic (d. 1988)
September 1 - Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (d. 1995)
September 1 - Madhav Mantri, Indian cricketer
September 3 - Marguerite Higgins, American reporter and war correspondent
September 3 - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (d. 1971)
September 5 - Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (d. 2007)
September 6 - Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (d. 2004)
September 7 - Josep Lluís Núñez, Spanish President of FC Barcelona (1978
September 8 - Harry Secombe, Welsh entertainer (d. 2001)
September 11 - Edwin Richfield, British Actor (d. 1990)
September 12 - Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (d. 2006)
September 14 - Dario Vittori, Argentinian actor (d. 2001)
September 15 - Norma MacMillan, Canadian actress (d. 2001)
September 16 - Jon Hendricks, American jazz singer
September 19 - Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator & writer (d. 1997)
September 24 - Jim McKay, American sportscaster (d. 2008)
September 25 - Sir Robert Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)
September 27 - Milton Subotsky, American TV and film producer (d. 1991)
September 30 - Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (d. 2007)
October 1 - James Whitmore, American actor
October 2 - Albert Scott Crossfield, American test pilot (d. 2006)
October 2 - Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
October 5 - Bill Willis, American football player (d. 2007)
October 6 - Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (d. 1997)
October 6 - Joseph Lowery, American Civil rights movement leader
October 7 - Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (d. 2004)
October 8 - Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
October 9 - Michel Boisrond, French film director (d. 2002)
October 13 - Yves Montand, Italian-born singer and actor (d. 1991)
October 17 - Tom Poston, American actor and comedian (d. 2007)
October 17 - Maria Gorokhovskaya, Soviet gymnast (d. 2001)
October 18 - Jesse Helms, American politician (d. 2008)
October 21 - Sir Malcolm Arnold, British composer (d. 2006)
October 22 - Georges Brassens, French singer (d. 1981)
October 22 - Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (d. 1986)
October 25 - King Michael I of Romania,
October 26 - George Forrest, Northern Irish MP (d. 1968)
October 27 - Warren Allen Smith, American encyclopedist
October 29 - Bill Mauldin, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
November 1 - John W. Peterson, American songwriter (d. 2006)
November 2 - Shepard Menken, American voice actor (d. 1999)
November 2 - Bill Mosienko, National Hockey League player (d. 1994)
November 3 - Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
November 5 - Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist (d. 1994)
November 5 - Fawzia of Egypt, Queen of Iran
November 6 - James Jones, American writer (d. 1977)
November 9 - Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (d. 1984)
November 9 - Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano
November 11 - Terrell Bell, American politician (d. 1996)
November 14 - Brian Keith, American actor (d. 1997)
November 17 - Albert Bertelsen, Danish painter
November 19 - Roy Campanella, American baseball player (d. 1993)
November 19 - Peter Ruckman, American Baptist minister
November 20 - Jim Garrison, American attorney and judge (d. 1992)
November 20 - Phyllis Thaxter, American actress
November 21 - Joonas Kokkonen, Finnish composer (d. 1996)
November 22 - Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (d. 2004)
November 22 - Brian Cleeve, Irish broadcaster (d. 2003)
November 23 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)
November 24 - John Lindsay, American politician (d. 2000)
November 27 - Alexander Dubèek, Slovak politician (d. 1992)
November 29 - Dagmar, American television personality (d. 2001)
December 3 - Phyllis Curtin, American soprano
December 4 - Deanna Durbin, Canadian actress
December 5 - Alvy Moore, American actor (d. 1997)
December 6 - Otto Graham, American football player (d. 2003)
December 6 - Piero Piccioni, Italian musician and composer (d. 2004)
December 7 - Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader
December 15 - Alan Freed, American disc jockey (d. 1965)
December 15 - Bob Todd, British comedian
December 21 - Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira
December 21 - John Severin, American comics artist
December 22 - Hawkshaw Hawkins, American country singer (d. 1963)
December 23 - Guy Beaulne, French Canadian actor and theatre director (d. 2001)
December 25 - Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist (d. 2000)
December 26 - Steve Allen, American comedian (d. 2000)
December 29 - Robert C. Baker, Inventor of the chicken nugget (d. 2006)
December 30 - Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman (d. 1987)

Deaths

January 1 - Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)
January 12 - Gervase Elwes, English tenor (b. 1866)
January 22 - Captain George Streeter, American riverboat captain and circus owner (b. 1837)
January 27 - Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian soldier (b. 1891)
February 8 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (b. 1842)
February 8 - George Formby (Senior), English entertainer (b. 1876)
February 22 - Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864)
February 26 - Carl Menger, Austrian economist (b. 1840)
February 27 - Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (b. 1871)
March 2 - Champ Clark, American politician (b. 1850)
March 2 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro, (b. 1841)
March 24 - Larry McLean, Canadian baseball player (b. 1881)
April 17 - Manuel Dimech, Maltese philosopher and social reformer (b. 1860)
April 27 - Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
May 3 - Théodore Pilette, Belgian racing driver (b. 1883)
May 5 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist
May 13 - Jean Aicard, French poet and novelist (b. 1848)
June 5 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)
June 19 - Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet (b. 1888)
June 29 - Otto Seeck German classical historian, (b. 1850)
July 13 - Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg scientist (b. 1845)
August 2 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
August 16 - King Peter I of Serbia, (b. 1844)
August 24 - Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (b. 1886)
September 2 - Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
September 2 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil pioneer, (b. 1855)
September 7 - Alfred William Rich, watercolor painter (b. 1856)
September 11 - Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b. 1882)
September 15 - Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1886)
September 27 - Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (b. 1854)
October 18 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria, (b. 1845)
October 23 - John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (b. 1840)
October 25 - Bat Masterson, American journalist and lawman (b. 1853)
November 8 - Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (b. 1849)
November 17 - Pa Chay Vue, Hmong Nationalist
November 27 - Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (b. 1854)
November 28 - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian leader of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1844)
December 16 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (b. 1835)
December 20 - Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (b. 1850)
December 25 - Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (b. 1853)
December 31 - Boies Penrose, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (b. 1860)

Events

January 3 - Turkey makes peace with Armenia.
January 20 - The first Constitution of Turkey is adopted, making fundamental changes in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle of national sovereignty.
January 21 - The Italian Communist Party was founded at Livorno.
January 28 - A symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is installed beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to honor the unknown dead of World War I.
February 21 - Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
February 25 - Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
February 27 - The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
March 6 - The Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
March 8 - Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
March 13 - Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China.
March 17 - The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
March 18 - The second Peace of Riga between Poland and Soviet Union.
March 19 - Italian Fascists shoot from the Parenzana train at a group of children in Strunjan (Slovenia): two children are killed, two mangled and three wounded.
March 31 - The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
April 11 - First sports broadcast on the radio takes place.
April 11 - The Emirate of Transjordan is created.
April 11 - Iowa becomes the first U.S. state to impose a cigarette tax.
April 13 - Foundation of the Spanish Communist Workers' Party.
May 3 - West Virginia imposes the first state sales tax.
May 5 - Chanel No. 5 is released.
May 19 - The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
May 24 - The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
May 31 - Tulsa Race Riot: A civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, the official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.
June 1 - Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
June 6 - The Southwark Bridge in London, is opened for traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.
June 30 - U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.
July 1 - The Communist Party of China is founded.
July 11 - A truce is called in the Irish War of Independence; see Irish calendar.
July 11 - Former U.S. President William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice.
July 11 - Outer Mongolia gains its independence from the Republic of China.
July 20 - Air mail service begins between New York City and San Francisco.
July 20 - Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson became the first woman to preside over the US House of Representatives.
July 27 - Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin.
July 29 - Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
August 14 - Tannu Tuva, later Tuvinian People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Russia).
August 25 - The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur.
August 27 - 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 7 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
September 8 - 16-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
September 11 - Nahalal, the first moshav in Israel, is settled.
September 21 - A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500—600 people.
October 4 - Riccardo Zanella becomes first elected president of Free State of Fiume.
October 5 - Baseball: The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time.
October 6 - International PEN is founded in London.
October 18 - The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the RSFSR.
October 19 - Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.
October 21 - President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting President against lynching in the deep south.
October 29 - The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
October 29 - Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in USA.
October 29 - 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 4 - The Sturmabteilung or SA is formally formed by Adolf Hitler
November 4 - Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
November 4 - The Italian unknown soldier is buried in the Altare della Patria (Fatherland Altar) in Rome.
November 7 - The Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, comes into existence.
November 9 - Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.
November 11 - The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
November 14 - The Communist Party of Spain is founded.
December 4 - The Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle ends in a hung jury.
December 6 - The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
December 23 - Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.

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