Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.
8. The Chicago Department of Public Health announced that the present crossword puzzle fad caused no ill health effects from headaches or eye strain, as had previously been feared.
12. The British government decided to reject the Geneva Protocol.
16. A 5,000-mile high speed communications cable between the United States and Italy was officially activated by envoy to the United States Giacomo De Martino.
20. Died. George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India (b.1859)
21. The first performance of the Maurice Ravel opera ballet L’enfant et les sortilèges took place in Monte Carlo.
22. Born. Gerard Hoffnung, artist and musician, in Berlin (d.1959)
25. Scottish inventor John Logie Baird publicly demonstrated the transmission of moving silhouette pictures at the London department store Selfridges
25. Born. Flannery O’Connor, American writer (d.1964)
26. Born. Pierre Boulez, French composer (d.2016)
31. The Bauhaus closes in Weimar and moves to a building in Dessau designed by Walter Gropíus.