Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.
1. Born. Frank Worrell, West Indies cricketer (d. 1967)
11. Lee de Forest used his experimental Phonofilm sound-on-film process to film US President Calvin Coolidge on the White House lawn; the earliest sound film footage of an American president.
12. Born. Derek Shackleton, England cricketer (d. 2007)
12. Born. Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, President of Pakistan (d. 1988)
27. American Telephone and Telegraph Company successfully transmitted a colour photograph from Chicago to New York. It took just an hour.