Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.
3. Died. Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (b. 1856)
14. The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), based in the US state of New York, is renamed International Business Machines (IBM)
21. Born. Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d. 2019)
Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.
21. Born. Benny Hill, English comedian and singer (d. 1992)
21. Died. Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary, first Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1870)
22. Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
26. Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) is renamed Leningrad; it will revert to Saint Petersburg in 1991
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