Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.
1. Norway’s capital Christiania was renamed Oslo.
1. The states of Aleppo and Damascus were united into the State of Syria.
6. Born. John DeLorean, car maker, in Detroit (d.2005)
7. Born. Gerald Durrell, English naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter, in Jamshedpur, British India (d.1995)
15. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin fired Leon Trotsky as Commisar for Military and Naval Affairs.
24. A total solar eclipse. The path of totality ran in an arc from SE Canada, NE USA to the north of the British Isles./p>
25. The tomb of Tutankhamun was reopened in Egypt so Howard Carter could resume his archaeological work. Carter was disappointed to find that the pall which had covered the sarcophagus was now ruined because someone in Egypt’s antiquities department had carelessly stored it in a wooden shed that did not provide adequate protection from sunlight.