General
Population: 2.02 Billion*
- Crime: International convention against illegal narcotics trade
- Entertainment: Music includes Ben Bernie (Sweet Georgia Brown), Aaron Copland, Rudolf Friml, James Weldon Johnson (Book of American Negro Spirituals),
Dmitri Shostakovich, Marion Harris (Tea for Two), "Show Me the Way to Go Home", Marian Anderson (Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen),
If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie), Paul Whiteman (Charleston)
Chicago-style jazz arrives in Europe
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Possible date of last castrato performance
Crossword puzzles become fashionable
Radio's "The Smith Family" introduces soap opera format
<Ole> begins broadcasts
Writers include Willa Cather, Noel Coward,
e.e. cummings, Theodore Dreiser, F Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby), Maxim Gorki, Ernest Hemingway,
Aldous Huxley, Franz Kafka (The Trial), Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith), Alfred Neumann, Gertrude Stein, Lord Beaverbrook, Lord Grey
Films include The Gold Rush (Chaplin), The Freshman, Lady Windermere's Fan, The Joyless Street (Garbo),
The Ghost of the Moulin Rouge
Art includes Marc Chagall, Oskar Kokoschka, Pablo Picasso, George Rouault
- Exploration: Lincoln Ellsworth and Roald Amundsen reach latitude 87 degrees 44' in two amphibious phases
- Fashion: Female fashions include straight dresses with short skirts and cloche hats
- Medicine: French-Russian surgeon Serge Voronoff combines animal and human experimentation
- Politics: Bio-warfare outlawed
Locarno Conference – great powers agree to put disputes to arbitration instead of war
- Religion: Jesuits number 18,718 members
- Science: Cytochromes discovered
Australopithecus described as missing link
Theory of gene-centers postulated by Russian botanist NI Vavilov
Theory of Uhlenbeck and Goudsmit show how spinning electron accounts for Pauli formalism
German chemist Carl Bosch invents process for preparing hydrogen
Fischer and Tropsch synthesis leads to synthetic oil
RA Millikan discovers cosmic rays in upper atmosphere
Wolfgang Pauli works to explain atomic structure statistically
Walter and Ida Noddack discover rhenium
- Sports: Alelxander Alekhine plays 28 simultaneous chess games while blindfolded
Malcolm Campbell increases land speed record to 150.86 mph
- Technology: Harold S Vanderbilt devises contract bridge
Scottish inventor John Logie Baird transmits recognizable human features by television
First Leica camera built by Oskar Barnack
Professor AO Rankine predicts taking motion picures in near future
- Travel: First solo nonstop from NY to Paris by Lindbergh
- Deaths: Zishe (Siegmund) Breitbart circus strongman and Jewish hero dies when driving spike through board with bare hands –
pierces knee and he gets blood poisoning, First Viscount Leverhulme the English soap manufacturer, William Jennings Bryan,
French general Charles Lanrezac, English chemist Sir Thomas Thorpe, German bacteriologist August von Wassermann, Walter Camp "Father of Football"
German mathematician Felix Klein, Painter John Singer Sargent<, Artist George Bellows, Rudolf Steiner founder of Anthroposophical society,
Mohammed Ali of Persia, German traveler in Africa and discoverer of pygmies George A Schweinfurth
Africa
- Morocco: Abd-el-Krim leads Arab uprising to 1926 - Petain the French Commander-in-Chief
Americas
- Bolivia: End of presidency of Juan Bautista Saavedra
- Canada: Earthquake over 6.3
United Church of Canada founded
- Chile: Ibañez forces Alessandri from office
- Nicaragua: US intervenes following a civil war
Asia
- China: Death of Sun Yat-sen in China as Chiang Kai-shek becomes leader of Kuomintang (Nationalist) party
Earthquake
- India: Death of Indian nationalist leader Surendranath Banerjea
- Japan: Introduction of general suffrage for men
Europe
- General: Locarno Agreements between major European powers for stability
- Cyprus: Cyprus becomes British Crown Colony
- Czechoslovakia: Franz Kafka publishes The Trial posthumously
- France: Surrealist painters expo in Paris
Paul Painleve elected Premier
- Germany: European powers guarantee Germany's eastern European borders at Locarno
Bauhaus moves from Weimar to Dessau
Fritz Haarmann executed for murdering at least 24 males
Hitler released from prison
Hans Luther named German Chancellor
Weimar President and socialist Friedrich Ebert elected and dies
Hindenburg elected President
British troops evacuate Cologne
Hitler reorganizes Nazi party – publishes Mein Kampf
- Great Britain: Death of British statesman Lord Curzon
Unemployment Insurance Act enacted
Death of Queen Alexandra
British Dominions Office established
London Bible Society distributes 10.5 million Bibles in 566 languages
The Shaftesbury Memorial erected (by Alfred Gilbert) in London
First International Congress of Radiologists held in London
- Greece: Coup in Athens – Theodore Pangalos becomes premier
- Italy: Mussolini assumes power, changing from Prime Minister to dictator, and bans all non-Fascist parties
Teatro d'Arte in Rome created
Dopolavore a Fascist recreation organization introduced
- Norway: Christiana Norway renamed Oslo
Norway annexes Spitsbergen
Lutheran World Conference held in Oslo
- Soviet Union: Stalin in power
KJ Voroshilov named Minister of War
Middle East
- Palestine: Hebrew University founded in Jerusalem
- Persia: Reza Khan ascends Persian throne (Iran)
- Syria: States of Damascus and Allepo unite to form Syria
Pacific