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
Our monthly look at what happened 100 years ago.
On this day, 10 December 1923 …
Poet WB Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
Photo from Irish Central
Our monthly look at what happened 100 years ago.
This day, 11 November 1923 saw …
Adolf Hitler arrested for his leading role in the Beer Hall Putsch
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