| January 1 | Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established |
| January 4 | 1st broadcast of "Barn Dance Show" (WBAP - Ft. Worth Texas) |
| January 4 | Lenin's "Political Testament" calls for removal of Stalin |
| January 7 | Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan |
| January 8 | Typography strike in Amsterdam |
| January 9 | 1st flight of autogiro by Juan de la Cierva, Madrid, Spain |
| January 10 | Last U.S. troops leave Rhineland (Germany) |
| January 10 | Lithuania seizes and annexes country of Memel |
| January 11 | 1st Dutch Dada-evening (Theo Van Doesburg and Kurt Schwitters) |
| January 11 | French and Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations |
| January 17 | Belgian Working people Party protest against occupied Ruhrgebied |
| January 17 | Origin of Brown lunation numbers |
| January 18 | 1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies |
| January 19 | WMC-AM in Memphis Tennessee begins radio transmissions |
| January 23 | Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins (through March 9th) |
| January 24 | Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico established |
| January 28 | 1st "Reichs Party" (NSDAP) forms in Munich |
| January 28 | Demonstration against a Dutch University in Ghent |
| January 28 | NSDAP 1st election in Munich |
| February 1 | Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel |
| February 1 | Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini |
| February 1 | Noel Coward's "Young Idea," premieres in London |
| February 2 | Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton, Ohio |
| February 2 | United States signs friendship treaty with Central American countries |
| February 5 | General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar |
| February 5 | Mass arrests of socialists and communists in Italy |
| February 8 | Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120 |
| February 8 | German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily |
| February 9 | Soviet Aeroflot airlines forms |
| February 10 | Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company |
| February 10 | Owen Davis' "Icebound," premieres in New York City |
| February 10 | SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of Ruhrgebied |
| February 13 | 1st Black pro Basketball team, "Renaissance," organizes |
| February 16 | Allies accept Latvia's occupation of Memel territory |
| February 16 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard |
| February 16 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger |
| February 17 | British egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamun |
| February 17 | Ottawa Senator Cy Denneny becomes NHL's all time scorer (143 goals) |
| February 18 | Belgium: Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages |
| February 19 | Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony, premieres |
| February 19 | Philip Barry's "You and I," premieres in New York City |
| February 20 | Christy Mathewson becomes President of Boston Braves |
| February 21 | Andre Charlot's musical "Rats," premieres in London |
| February 22 | 1st successful chinchilla farm in U.S. (Los Angeles California) |
| February 22 | Transcontinental airmail service begins |
| February 23 | German Republic day with laws against worker |
| February 23 | Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5% |
| February 24 | Flying Scotsman goes into service |
| February 24 | Mass arrests in U.S. of mafia |
| February 25 | Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark |
| February 26 | Italian nationalist and fascists merge (blue-shirts and black-shirts) |
| February 28 | Swedish king Gustaaf V begins state visit to Netherlands |
| March 1 | Allies occupy Ruhrgebied: killing railroad striker |
| March 2 | Time magazine debuts |
| March 3 | U.S. Senate rejects membership in International Court of Justice, The Hague |
| March 4 | Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy) |
| March 5 | 1st old age pension plans in U.S. established by Montana and Nevada |
| March 6 | Cards announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms |
| March 9 | Amsterdam taxi strike ended |
| March 9 | Elmer Rice's "Adding Machine," premieres in New York City |
| March 9 | NHL Championship: Mont Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators, 3-2, in 2 |
| March 13 | Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (New York City) |
| March 14 | Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galicie in Poland |
| March 14 | German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP |
| March 14 | President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st President to pay taxes |
| March 15 | Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke |
| March 16 | Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Der Unbestechliche," premieres in Vienna |
| March 20 | Bavarian minister of Interior refuses to forbid Nazi SA |
| March 20 | Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent |
| March 21 | U.S. foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses U.S.S.R. recognition |
| March 23 | Frank Silver and Irving Conn release "Yes, We Have No Bananas" |
| March 25 | British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy |
| March 26 | Stanley Cup: Ott Senators beat Vanc Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 1 |
| March 30 | Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard U in 1920, incorporates |
| March 31 | 1st dance marathon-NYC-Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hours |
| March 31 | French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die |
| March 31 | Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) sweep Edm Eskimos (WCHL) in 2 games |
| April 3 | 2 "Black Sox" sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary |
| April 5 | Firestone puts their inflatable tires into production |
| April 7 | 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in New York City) by Dr. K Winfield Ney |
| April 7 | Workers Party of America (New York City) becomes official Communist Party |
| April 9 | Sean O'Casey's "Shadow of a Gunman," premieres in Dublin |
| April 10 | Hitler demands "hatred and more hatred" in Berlin |
| April 13 | Army wins 1st college three-weapon fencing championships |
| April 14 | Etienne Oehmichen sets helicopter distance record of 358 meters |
| April 15 | 1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (New York City) |
| April 15 | Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics |
| April 17 | Longest NL opening game, Phillies and Dodgers tie 5-5 in 14 |
| April 18 | 74,000 (62,281 paid) on hand for opening of Yankee Stadium |
| April 18 | Poland annexes Central Lithuania |
| April 19 | 27th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:23:37.4 |
| April 19 | New Egyptian law allows suffrage for men, except soldiers |
| April 24 | Colonel Jacob Schick patents Schick shavers |
| April 24 | General harbor strike begins in New York City |
| April 26 | English prince Albert (George VI) marries lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon |
| April 27 | Mussolini government italian place in South Tirol/Alto Adige |
| April 28 | Wembley Stadium opens-Bolton Wanderers vs West Ham United (FA Cup) |
| May 2 | Senator Walter Johnson pitches his 100th shutout, beats Yankees 3-0 |
| May 3 | 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (New York - San Diego) completed |
| May 4 | Bloody street battles between Nazi's, socialist and police in Vienna |
| May 4 | New York state revokes Prohibition law |
| May 7 | Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad |
| May 8 | Hobbs scores his 100th 100, 116* vs. Somerset at Bath |
| May 11 | 10 home runs hit in Phillies 20-14 victory over St. Louis Cardinals |
| May 12 | 49th Preakness: Benny Marinelli aboard Vigil wins in 1:53.6 |
| May 13 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter (One of Ours) |
| May 15 | Cooperation of Dutch Molen forms |
| May 17 | Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (SC) |
| May 19 | 49th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:05.4 |
| May 19 | KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies |
| May 20 | Stanley Baldwin, becomes Prime Minister of UK |
| May 22 | Stanley Baldwin succeeds Andrew Bonar Law as British premier |
| May 23 | 1st flight of Sabena: Brussel-Lympne, Great Britain |
| May 25 | Britain recognizes Transjordan with Abdullah as its leader |
| May 26 | 1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance is run |
| May 26 | Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg |
| May 28 | Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere |
| May 28 | U.S. unemployment has nearly ended |
| May 30 | Howard Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic," premieres |
| May 31 | China and U.S.S.R. exchange diplomats |
| June 1 | New York Giants beat Phillies, 22-5, Giants score in every inning |
| June 9 | 55th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:19 |
| June 9 | Brinks unveils 1st armored security vans |
| June 9 | Bulgarian premier Stamboeliski and King Boris III overthrown |
| June 12 | Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in New York City |
| June 14 | Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane) |
| June 15 | Belgium's Theunis government falls because of mine, post and railroad strike |
| June 16 | Sun Yat Sen founds military academy |
| June 19 | Baldwin-Mellon-agreement concerning Britain entering the war |
| June 19 | "Moon Mullins," Comic Strip, debuts |
| June 21 | Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud |
| June 24 | Pope Pius XI speaks against allies occupying Ruhrgebied |
| June 28 | Dodgers lost 7-0 lead, as Phillies score 8 in bottom of 9th |
| June 28 | Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry for state visit to London |
| June 30 | New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica |
| July 1 | 1st permanent radio network-AT&T (WEAF New York and WMAF Mass) |
| July 3 | Harbor strike in Hull/Grimsby/Cardiff/Bristol over to London |
| July 4 | Jack Dempsey beats Tommy Gibbon in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| July 6 | 36th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats K McKane (62 62) |
| July 6 | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form |
| July 7 | 43rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats F Hunter (60 63 61) |
| July 7 | Cleveland Indians beat Boston Red Sox 27-3 with 13 runs in 6th inning |
| July 7 | University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne) |
| July 8 | Harding becomes 1st sitting president to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla) |
| July 8 | Walter Mittelholzer flies Junkers F-13 to Spitsbergen/Oostland |
| July 10 | 2-pound hailstones kill 23 and many cattle, Rostov, Russia |
| July 10 | All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy |
| July 11 | Harry Frazee, sells Red Sox to Ohio businessmen for $1M |
| July 13 | Draft law passes |
| July 15 | 27th U.S. Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 296 at Inwood CC in New York |
| July 15 | Italian parliament accepts new constitution |
| July 17 | Carl Mays gave up 13 runs and 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians |
| July 18 | England's House of Lords accepts new divorce law |
| July 19 | WRC-AM in Washington D.C. begins radio transmissions |
| July 20 | Yankees hit into a triple-play but beat A's 9-2 |
| July 21 | Phillies score 12 in 6th and beat Cubs 17-4 |
| July 22 | Walter Johnson becomes 1st to strikeout 3,000 (en route to 3,508) |
| July 24 | Allied Powers and Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne |
| July 25 | German mark devalued to 600,000 Dmark=$1 |
| July 29 | Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin |
| July 29 | KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany |
| July 30 | New Zealand claims Ross Dependency |
| July 31 | Belgian Chamber discusses bilinguality at Ghent University |
| August 3 | Baseball games cancelled following the death of President Harding |
| August 3 | V.P. Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th president |
| August 5 | 1st American to swim English Channel, Henry Sullivan |
| August 9 | New York State Golf Association formed |
| August 11 | Dutch Premier de Geer resigns |
| August 12 | Dutch AR-leader Coair replaces De Geer as minister of finances |
| August 12 | Enrico Tiraboschi is 1st to swim English Channel westward |
| August 13 | Germany: Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of coalition government |
| August 13 | Turkish National Congress selects Moestafa Kemal Pasja as president |
| August 13 | U.S. Steel Corp initiates 8th-hour work day |
| August 15 | Eamon de Valera arrested in Irish Free State |
| August 15 | Mexico and U.S. reaches accord over oil concession of 1917 |
| August 18 | 37th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (62 61) |
| August 20 | London harbor strike ends |
| August 22 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record mile (4:10.4) |
| August 24 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3 mile (14:11.2) |
| August 31 | League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German) |
| August 31 | Mussolini's troops occupy Korfu |
| September 1 | 18th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1) |
| September 1 | 7.9 earthquake strikes Tokyo and Yokohama, kills 142,000 |
| September 1 | U.S. beats Australia in tennis, for their 4th straight Davis Cup |
| September 3 | Dorothys Donelly's "Poppy," premieres in New York City |
| September 4 | A Charlot and N Cowards revue "London Calling," premieres in London |
| September 4 | New York Yankee Sad Sam Jones no-hits Philadelphia A's, 2-0 |
| September 5 | Flyweights Gene LaRue and Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously |
| September 6 | Queen Wilhelmina celebrates 25 year jubilee |
| September 7 | Boston Red Sox Howard Ehmke no-hits Philadelphia A's, 4-0 |
| September 7 | Interpol forms in Vienna |
| September 7 | Mary Katherine Campbell (Ohio), 16, crowned 2nd Miss America 1922-23 |
| September 9 | Albin Stenroos runs world record 20 km (1:07:11.2) |
| September 10 | Irish Free state joins League of Nations |
| September 11 | After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires next 27 Yankees |
| September 11 | Bernie Neis, hits the 1,000th Dodger home run |
| September 11 | ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over New York's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower |
| September 12 | Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co |
| September 13 | With Spain's king Alfonso XIII assist, army coup under de Rivera |
| September 14 | Jack Dempsey KOs Luis Firpo in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
| September 14 | Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain |
| September 14 | Red Sox 1st baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple play |
| September 15 | 43rd U.S. Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats W M Johnston (64 61 64) |
| September 15 | Bill Tilden wins U.S. Lawn Tennis Open |
| September 17 | Sutton Vane's "Outward Bound," premieres in London |
| September 19 | Ernst Tollers "Hinkemann," premieres in Leipzig |
| September 23 | 80,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against Fleet law |
| September 24 | Premiere of 1st celluloid film "Das Leben auf dem Dorfe" (Berlin) |
| September 26 | Stresemann Government ends resistance against occupiers in Ruhrgebied |
| September 27 | Italian troops leave occupied Korfu |
| September 27 | New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 1st of his 493 home runs |
| September 28 | Abyssinia (Ethiopia) leaves League of Nations |
| September 28 | Radio Times 1st published |
| September 28 | Yankees slaughter Red Sox 24-4 |
| September 29 | 6th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Pelham CC Pelham NY |
| September 29 | Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public |
| September 30 | Canton Bulldogs win 1st on way to 17-0 season |
| October 2 | British occuping army leaves Constantinople |
| October 2 | Harry Heilmann goes 2-for-2, sit out rest of season, except for a pinch single on final day, hitting .403 |
| October 3 | Germany's Stresemann resigns |
| October 4 | Young Stribling held light-heavyweight boxing championship for shortest amount of time (3 hours). Referee overturns decision |
| October 5 | Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star |
| October 6 | 1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies) |
| October 6 | 2nd government of Stresemann in Germany forms |
| October 6 | U.S. lt Al Williams fly 392.2 KPH (record) |
| October 6 | U.S.S.R. adopts experimental calendar |
| October 7 | Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138 |
| October 10 | New York Giants and New York Yankees become 1st teams to play each other for 3 consecutive World Series, also 1st played at Yankee Stadium |
| October 10 | Saxony gets Social Democratic and Communist coalition government |
| October 11 | Babe Ruth hits 2 home runs in a World Series game |
| October 12 | New York Giant's Casey Stengel home run beats Yankees 1-0 in World Series |
| October 13 | Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkey's capital |
| October 15 | New York Yankees 1st World Series win beating New York Giants, 4 games to 2 |
| October 16 | Disney company founded |
| October 16 | John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland) |
| October 17 | Catholic University of Nijmegen Netherlands opens |
| October 19 | Ban Johnson persuades AL owners to prohibit boxing in their parks |
| October 19 | Beierse government refuses to prohibit NSDAP newspaper Volkischer Beobachter |
| October 21 | 1st planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich |
| October 23 | Babe Ruth makes a postseason exhibition appearance in a Giants uniform |
| October 23 | Giants defeat Baltimore Orioles 9-0 to benefit former Giants owner John Day |
| October 24 | General Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship |
| October 25 | Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal |
| October 26 | Dutch 2nd Chamber rejects Fleet laws (50-49 vote) |
| October 26 | Govt-Ruijs de Beerenbrouck resigns |
| October 29 | Army move SPD/KPD-government to German part of Saxon |
| October 29 | Gibbs/Grey/Wood's revue "Runnin' Wild," premieres in New York City |
| October 29 | "Runnin' Wild" (introducing Charleston) opens on Broadway |
| October 29 | Textile strike in Enschede, Netherlands, against lower wages, begins |
| October 29 | Turkey declares independence (successor state to Ottoman Empire) |
| November 1 | Bruno E. Lucander forms Aero E/Y (Finnair) |
| November 2 | Bloody street battles in Aken: pro-French separatists |
| November 2 | Bloody street fights in Aken (pro-French separatists driven) |
| November 2 | Stresemann's SPD-ministers in Germany, step down |
| November 6 | Col Jacob Schick patents 1st electric shaver |
| November 6 | U.S.S.R. adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks" |
| November 8 | Hitler stages unsuccessful "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munchen (Munich) |
| November 9 | Beer Hall Putsch-Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die/Hitler flees |
| November 10 | German ex-crown prince flees Netherlands for Germany |
| November 11 | Eternal flame lit for tomb of unknown solder, Arc de Triumph |
| November 12 | In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power |
| November 19 | Bela Bartok's "Tancsuite," premieres |
| November 20 | Garrett Morgan invents and patents traffic signal |
| November 22 | Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death |
| November 23 | German army commander General Von Seeckt bans NSDAP and KPD |
| November 23 | Germany's Stresemann government falls to SPD |
| November 24 | Radio Belgium's 1st transmission |
| November 30 | Dutch Catholic minority government of Wilhelm Marx forms |
| December 1 | CFL Grey Cup: Queen's U beats Regina, 54-0 at Toronto |
| December 3 | 1st Congressional open session broadcast via radio (Washington D.C.) |
| December 4 | Cecil B DeMille's 1st version of "Ten Commandments" premieres |
| December 4 | WEAF radio begins broadcasting Eveready Hour (variety show) |
| December 8 | German - U.S friendship treaty signed |
| December 8 | Labour/Liberals win British parliament |
| December 8 | Salary and price freeze in Germany |
| December 10 | Polish government of Grabski, forms |
| December 14 | Gerard K "Simon" van het Reve, Dutch writer (Evenings) |
| December 17 | Greek king George II overthrown by army/republic |
| December 18 | International zone of Tangier set up in Morocco |
| December 21 | Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation |
| December 22 | Bill Ponsford and Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Vict |
| December 23 | Yankees pitcher Carl Mays sold to Reds for $85,000 |
| December 25 | Imperial Theater opens at 249 W 45th St. New York City |
| December 27 | Unsuccessful attempt on prince-regent Hirohito of Japan |
| December 28 | George Bernard Shaw's "St. Joan," premieres in New York City |
| December 31 | 1st transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester |
| December 31 | BBC begins using Big Ben chime ID |
| December 31 | H Tierney/J McCarthy's musical "Kid Boots," premieres in New York City |
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