Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.
3. Alfred Hitchcock’s directorial debut film, The Pleasure Garden, was released.
10. Born. Richard Burton, actor, in Pontrhydyfen, Wales (d.1984)
11. Howard Carter and an autopsy team began the unwrapping of the mummy of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. The process was exceedingly difficult due to the extreme fragility of the bandages and the resinous coating that held the mummy fast inside the sarcophagus.
11. Born. June Whitfield, British actress, in Streatham, London (d.2018)
12. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five recorded their first songs together for Okeh Records. These recordings were among the most important and influential in the development of jazz music.
19. The autopsy of Tutankhamun concluded. The bad condition of the body and limited forensic science of the 1920s meant that little could be determined other than the age of the body being estimated to be about eighteen.
24. Born. William F Buckley Jr, American journalist, author and commentator (d.2008)
27. Born. Ernie Wise, comedian, in Bramley, Leeds, England (d.1999)