Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.
3. The Second International Conference on the Standardization of Medicine was held in Geneva, with the goal of standardizing drug formulae worldwide.
7. Born. Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (d.1985)
13. Born. Mel Tormé, jazz singer, in Chicago (d.1999)
16. Born. Charles Haughey, Taoiseach of Ireland; in Castlebar (d.2006)
Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.
2. Born. Alan Whicker, British journalist and television host (Whicker’s World), in Cairo, Egypt (d.2013)
7. The United Kingdom passed the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act, making it illegal to sell peerages or any other honours.
12. Born. Twin brothers Norris (d.2004) & Ross McWhirter (d.1975), founders of Guinness World Records, in Winchmore Hill, London
15. Born. Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist (d.2007)
18. Born. Brian Aldiss, science fiction writer, in East Dereham, Norfolk (d.2017)
22. Born. Honor Blackman, English actress (d.2020)
27. Born. Nat Lofthouse, footballer, in Bolton, Lancashire, England (d.2011)
Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.
1. Died. Erik Satie, 59, French composer
18. Adolf Hitler published Volume 1 of his autobiographical manifesto Mein Kampf.
20. An annular solar eclipse, visible across the south Pacific.
20. Born. Jacques Delors, French economist; in Paris (d.2023)
21. English racing motorist Malcolm Campbeli becomes the first man to exceed 150 mph (241 km/h) on land; at Pendine Sands, Wales he drives a Sunbeam 350HP automobiie at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph (242 km/h)
29. Born. Mikis Theodorakis, Greek songwriter; in Chios (d.2021)
Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.
8. The Noël Coward comic play Hay Fever opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in the City of Westminster, England.
14. A significant German art exhibition of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement opened in Mannheim, with paintings by George Grosz, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Rudolf Schlichter and others.
15. Born. Richard Baker, English broadcast journalist and author (d.2018)
24. The Five Sisters window at York Minster was dedicated to the women who lost their lives in the line of service during World War I
Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.
1. Cyprus became a British crown colony.
2. A US Navy seaplane set a new record by staying airborne for 28-and-a-half hours.
5. Born. Charles Chaplin, Jr, actor, in Beverly Hills, California (d.1968)
7. Died. William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, British industrialist, philanthropist and politician (b.1851)
12. Paul von Hindenburg was sworn in as president of Germany. His inaugural address emphasised the need to place unity and mutual progress ahead of political partisanship.
12. Born. Yogi Berra, baseball player, in St Louis, Missouri (d.2015)
13. The Gold Standard Act was passed in Britain, officially returning the country to the gold standard.
14. Died. H Rider Haggard, English novelist (b.1856)
16. The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi’s opera Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (1639/40) takes place in Paris
19. Born. Malcolm X, African-American civil rights activist (d.1965)
19. Born. Pol Pot, Cambodian Stalinist dictator and leader of the Khmer Rouge (d.1998)
22. Died. John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, British World War I field marshal (b.1852)
28. Born. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone singer and conductor, in Berlin (d.2012)
Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.
3. Born. Tony Benn, politician, in London (d.2014)
6. Died. Alexandra Kitchin, 60, British model for Lewis Carroll.
10. The novel The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald was published.
14. Died. John Singer Sargent, 69, American artist
28. Presenting the government’s budget, Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill announced Britain’s return to the gold standard.
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.
Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.
1. Ahmed Zog ascended to power in Albania, becoming its President, Prime Minister and Marshal of the Royal Albanian Army.
2. Born. Elaine Stritch, actress and singer, in Detroit (d.2014)
8. Born. Jack Lemmon, actor, in Newton, Massachusetts (d.2001)
11. In the English House of Commons, Reginald Applin of the Conservatives asked the Speaker of the House if Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson was in order while addressing the House without wearing a hat. The Speaker ruled that she was and a precedent for women was set.
26. Born. Everton Weekes, cricketer, in St Michael, Barbados (d.2020)
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.