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Max Wagenknecht, German pianist and composer (born 1857)
Max Otto Arnold Wagenknecht was a German composer of organ and piano music.
Max Wagenknecht, German pianist and composer (born 1857)
The 1920s
Explore 1158 historical events from 1920–1929.
1922
Dorothy Levitt, English racing driver and journalist (born 1882)
Dorothy Elizabeth Levitt was a British racing driver and journalist. She was the first British woman racing driver, holder of the world's first water speed record, the women's worl…
Dorothy Levitt, English racing driver and journalist (born 1882)
1922
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1845)
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of i…
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1845)
1922
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William Halse Rivers Rivers was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist known for treatment of First World War officers suffering shell shock. Rivers' …
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Lillian Russell, American actress and singer (born 1860)
Lillian Russell was an American actress and singer. She became one of the most famous actresses and singers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, praised for her beauty and st…
Lillian Russell, American actress and singer (born 1860)
1922
Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer and academic (born 1851)
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn was a Dutch astronomer. He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way. He found that the apparent movement of stars was not randomly distributed but h…
Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer and academic (born 1851)
1922
Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (born 1874)
Hitachiyama Taniemon was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture. He was the sport's 19th yokozuna from 1903 till 1914. His great rivalry with Umegatan…
Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (born 1874)
1922
The Soviet government created the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian SSR
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), also known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until its dissolution in 1991.…
The Soviet government created the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian SSR
1922
The first portion of the Imperial Wireless Chain, a strategic international wireless telegraphy communications network c
The Imperial Wireless Chain was a strategic international communications network of powerful long range radiotelegraphy stations, created by the British government to link the coun…
The first portion of the Imperial Wireless Chain, a strategic international wireless telegraphy communications network c
1922
Sixteen-year-old Lilian Salkeld became the first woman to walk from London to Brighton
The London to Brighton walk was a competitive walking race held on the road from London, England, to the south coast resort of Brighton. In the era before organised sport individua…
Sixteen-year-old Lilian Salkeld became the first woman to walk from London to Brighton
1922
The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D
The Lincoln Memorial is a U.S. national memorial honoring Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, located on the western end of the National Mall of Washington, D…
The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D
1921
105 years ago
The Jaffa riots commence
The Jaffa riots were a series of violent riots in Mandatory Palestine on May 1–7, 1921, which began as a confrontation between two Jewish groups but developed into an attack by Ara…
The Jaffa riots commence
1921
105 years ago
The creation of the Communist Party of Romania
The Romanian Communist Party was a communist party in Romania. It was founded in 1921 and became the founding and ruling party of the Communist Socialist Republic of Romania in 194…
The creation of the Communist Party of Romania
1921
105 years ago
The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration
The United States Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. It is a bicameral legislature, including a lower body, the U.S. House of Repres…
The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration
1921
105 years ago
Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant upr
Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky, nicknamed the Red Napoleon, was a Soviet general who was prominent between 1918 and 1937 as a military officer and theoretician. He was later exe…
Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant upr
1921
105 years ago
The village of Knockcroghery, Ireland, is burned by British forces
Knockcroghery is a village and townland in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is located on the N61 road between Athlone and Roscommon town, near Lough Ree on the River Shannon. The tow…
The village of Knockcroghery, Ireland, is burned by British forces
1921
105 years ago
Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike
Buckingham and Carnatic Mills, popularly known as B & C Mills, were textile mills run by Binny and Co. in the city of Madras, India. The mills were closed down in 1996 and the s…
Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike
1921
105 years ago
Ireland is partitioned under British law by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, creating Northern Ireland and Southern I
The Partition of Ireland was the process by which the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (UK) divided Ireland into two self-governing polities: Northern …
Ireland is partitioned under British law by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, creating Northern Ireland and Southern I
1921
105 years ago
West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years
West Virginia is a mountainous, landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland to the northeast, Virgin…
West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years
1921
105 years ago
The Tulsa race massacre kills at least 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300
The Tulsa race massacre was a two-day-long terrorist massacre perpetrated by white supremacists that took place in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, between…
The Tulsa race massacre kills at least 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300
1921
105 years ago
Wolfgang Leonhard, German historian and author (died 2014)
Wolfgang Leonhard was a German political author and historian of the Soviet Union, the German Democratic Republic and Communism. A German Communist whose family had fled Hitler's G…
Wolfgang Leonhard, German historian and author (died 2014)
1921
105 years ago
Melvin Storer, American shipfitter and navy diver (died 2003)
Melvin Tyler Storer was an American shipfitter, navy diver and welder who served in the United States Navy Reserve on the USS West Virginia and USS Yarnall. He was aboard the USS C…
Melvin Storer, American shipfitter and navy diver (died 2003)
1921
105 years ago
Jean Richard, French actor and singer (died 2001)
Jean Richard was a French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur. He is best remembered for his role as Georges Simenon's Maigret in the eponymous French television series, which…
Jean Richard, French actor and singer (died 2001)
1921
105 years ago
Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey (died 2006)
Anna Lee Aldred was an American jockey and trick rider in rodeos. She was the first woman in the United States to receive a jockey's license. She pursued her professional horse rac…
Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey (died 2006)