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First Compilation (1921-1929) to Post #34
1921:
August 26th, 1921: Franklin D. Roosevelt dies after spending nearly a month with deteriorating health from catching some sort of illness during his trip to Canada.
December 10th, 1921: Shortly after receiving the Nobel Prize for Physics in recognition of his explanation of the photo-electric effect, Albert Einstein is killed in a chance car accident in Sweden, much to the dismay of many.
1922:
February 10th, 1922: The Washington Naval Conference breaks down; no treaty is produced. The delegates do agree to meet again in six months.
April 11th, 1922: Herbert O. Yardley, head of the Black Chamber, is struck by a car on the way to work; he is forced to stay in the hospital for six months, recuperating.
November 11th, 1922: Vladimir Lenin reads his testament aloud before the Soviet Party. It has been slightly altered, after a few visits from both Stalin and Trotsky, and the Testament now criticized Stalin greatly, suggested that he be replaced as General Secretary, and it even went so far as to suggest that Trotsky take his place. After the reading of the testament, Stalin leaves the building to think, and is assassinated once outside by an OGPU agent, who escapes.
December 4th, 1922: The Washington Naval Arms Treaty is signed by representatives of the UK, Japan and the US. It declares a halt to new battleship and battlecruiser construction (with battleships and battlecruisers defined as ships of 18000t or greater, mounting cannon of 13" (330mm) or greater caliber), and to the fortification of League mandate territories in the Pacific (and of the Aleutians and Guam). It is far weaker than the treaty proposed in the first round, but the intransigent American and Japanese delegations are unwilling to compromise further - especially after the French and Italians had already walked out.
December 5th, 1922: After the WashingtonTreaty is sign but does not say how many aircraft carrier can be made out the lay down battleships or battlecruiser the US turns are 6 Lexington Class Battlecruisers into aircraft carriers.
December 6th, 1922: Japan follow the US lead and turns the 2 Tosa Class battleship into Kaga Class Carriers and the two laid down Amagi Class battlecruisers into Amagi Class Carriers and cancels the other two Amagi Class battlecruiser who have been yet to later down.
December 20th, 1922: HMS Howe, HMS Rodney and HMS Anson, the three sisters to HMS Hood, are reordered as aircraft carriers.
1923:
January 22nd, 1923: The Toll of the Sea, the first all-color Hollywood film, is released, two months after the original print was damaged. It sees rave reviews, particularly for star Anna May Wong.
July 20th, 1923: An attempted assassination of Pancho Villa fails, thanks to the effective response of Villa's bodyguards.
August 2nd, 1923: Warren G. Harding suffers a heartattack. Despite the scare, docters are able to save his life, and he recovers quickly.
September 1st, 1923: A moderately strong earthquake - 4.9 on the Richter scale - hits the Kanto plain.
November 9th, 1923: The Beer Hall Putsch ends as the police show up. There is a misfire, resulting in the unfortunate death of one young Adolf Hitler.
1924:
January 21st, 1924: Lenin dies; Kamenev takes over his post on the Council of Labour and Defense, but Trotsky's ally Preobrazhensky takes over Sovnarkom instead of Rykov (Lenin's deputy in Sovnarkom).
March 21st, 1924: Anna May Wong Productions is founded by the popular film star and the investor Sid Grauman, just three days after Wong's second success, The Thief of Baghdad, was released. The company plans to raise money for films centered on Chinese myths and starring the popular actress.
May 4th, 1924: Igor Sikorsky crashes his S-29-A on its maiden flight; though he is uninjured, his company folds.
September 2nd, 1924: A Category 3 hurricane, the fourth tropical storm of the 1924 hurricane season, slams into Savannah, Georgia, causing significant damage to a number of historic buildings in the city - most notably the Sorrel Weed House.
October 29th, 1924: Frederick Fox Riley, defeating Liberal Robert Strother Stewart and Tory Harold MacMillan, is one of the 154 Labour Party MPs elected in 1924 - not enough to preserve the minority government that had been in place since January, but more than enough to displace the Liberals as the chief rival to the Conservatives.
November 4th, 1924: President Harding is reelected in a landslide over Democratic candidate Al Smith of New York.
1925:
January 24th, 1925: Chicago's north side crime boss Hymie Weiss and Bugs Moran attempt to assassinate rival Johnny Torrio outside his home. Torrio is tiped off however, and is waiting for them. Weiss and Moran are both killed in a hail of gunfire, throwing the North Side into chaos.
February 18th, 1925: Bukharin's Right Opposition and Kamenev's Center Movement successfully oust Preobrazhensky from Sovnarkom; Zinoviev, Kamenev's most loyal ally, replaces him.
March 4th, 1925: Trotsky resigns from the position of General Secretary, unable to cope with the workload; he cites a desire to refocus attention on reforming and modernizing the Red Army, and proposes that his protege Georgy Pyatakov, deputy chair of Gosplan, take over the post of General Secretary.
April 17th, 1925: Sikorsky is hired by Grover Loening, director of the Loening Aeronautical Engineering corporation, joining Leroy Grumman.
May 11th, 1925: The doctor informs Mr. Nixon that his son, Arthur, only has the cold and should recover within the week.
May 18th, 1925: Arthur Nixon is once again fully healthy.
August 19th, 1925: Arthur Nixon is still completely fine.
October 1st, 1925: German negotiators successfully chip away at the naval limitations imposed on the Reichsmarine by the Treaty of Versailles. Germany was now granted the right to field six heavy cruisers (with armament of up to 12" (304.8mm)) of up to 12000t displacement, eight light cruisers of up to 6000t displacement, 18 destroyers of up to 800t displacement, and 20 torpedo boats.
October 15th, 1925: On a clear day in Pittsburgh, Washington Senators ace pitcher Walter Johnson wins Game 7 of the World Series, 6-3.
December 9th, 1925: Mulan, Maid of China, the first film by Anna May Wong Productions, is released, and proves wildly successful.
1926:
January 11th, 1926: Hannah Milhous Nixon discovers that she is once again pregnant with a child.
February 12th, 1926: Frances Stevenson, the mistress of David Lloyd George [DLG], gives birth to a baby girl. She names DLG as the father. He decides to accept paternity. The parents give the name Myfanwy (Welsh for beloved) to their daughter.
February 14th, 1926: Margaret Lloyd George, DLG's wife, says that she will stand by her husband. She had known for several years about his infidelity with Miss Stevenson, but she knows in her heart that she is David's first and deepest love. She will love and care for Myfanwy as if she were her own daughter.
February 17th, 1926: In order to take maximum advantage of DLG's public admission of adultery to stop him becoming leader of the Liberal Party, Herbert Asquith resigns as leader.
February 18th, 1926 : DLG says that 'for personal reasons' he will not be standing for leadership of the Liberal Party.
February 19th, 1926: Walter Runciman announces his candidature for leadership of the Liberal Party. As one of the few Liberal MPs elected in the October 1924 general election against both Tory and Labour opponents (he captured Swansea, West from Labour), he said he would keep the party independent of any pact or alliance with the Tories or Labour.
February 20th, 1926: William Wedgwood Benn announces that he is standing for leader of the Liberal Party with the intention of returning the party to its radical roots.
February 21st, 1926: Sir Robert Hutchison, the assistant whip, announces that he is standing for leader of the Liberal Party, He was a Lloyd George Liberal. The other two candidates were Asquithian Liberals.
February 22nd, 1926 : Sir John Simon declares that he is giving his full support to Runciman in the Liberal leadership contest.
March 10th, 1926: First ballot of Liberal MPs: Hutchison 18 votes, Runciman 13 votes, Wedgwood Benn 9 votes. Wedgwood Benn withdraws from the contest.
March 11th, 1926: Wedgwood Benn declares that Runciman has his full support in the leadership contest. He asks all the MPs who voted for him to vote for Runciman on the second ballot.
March 17th, 1926 Result of second ballot of Liberal MPs: Runciman 22 votes, Hutchison 18 votes. Runciman becomes leader of the Liberal Party.
March 31st, 1926: J Edgar Hoover leaves the Justice of Department after photos are found with him and a second man in the bedroom with there pants down.
June 27th, 1926: Heinrich Himmler is kill went he is hit with a car as he walks acroos the street.
August 30rd, 1926: Gustav Stresemann becomes German Chancellor for the third time.
September 12th, 1926: Mao Zedong is caught by Republic of China force is place in jail to stand trail.
November 3rd, 1926: Nellie Tayloe Ross, a progressive 'dry' Democrat, is narrowly re-elected as governor of Wyoming, defeating Republican Frank Emerson; the same day, corrupt 'wet' Democrat Ma Ferguson, having won a bruising primary fight earlier in the year, is re-elected governor of Texas.
December 21st, 1926: French ace René Fonck wins the Orteig Prize, flying a Keystone K-47A Pathfinder biplane from Roosevelt Airfield in New York to Paris Le Bourget, accompanied by navigator Charles Clavier.
December 25th, 1926: A general strike in Cologne turns into a riot as local police are goaded into brutality.
December 26, 1926: Rioters, strikers, and various other malcontents hole up in the main building of the University of Cologne. Mayor Konrad Adenauer personally orders police to storm the building; eleven die in the fighting, including four policemen, and the building itself is wrecked.
1927:
April 28th, 1927: Li Dazhao, co-founder of the Communist Party of China, escapes the KMT purge of Communists, surviving only with the support of Soviet agents.
June 3rd, 1927: President Warren G. Harding signs the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Act into law, attempting to maintain 1913 agricultural price levels and counteract the overproduction that had occurred during the Great War by purchasing surplus crops for sale overseas; losses incurred would be made up for by fees against farm producers.
August 19th, 1927: Mendez Nunez, converted into an aircraft carrier, commissions into the Spanish Navy, twelve years after she was ordered.
1928:
January 17th, 1928: Huey Long wins re-election as governor of Louisiana, winning 45% of the vote - well more than the 27% won by each of the anti-Long candidates.
June 1st, 1928: Following the disastrous election results, the new DNVP chairman Alfred Hugenberg takes a new radical volkish course in the DNVP special conference in Stettin.
July 19th, 1928: In the Wiesbaden Conference Hugenbergs DVNP merges with General Ludendorffs Voelkisch-Nationale Block (NVP) and Josef Goebbles National Sozialistische Partei Deutschlands (NSPD).
They form the Nationale Volksblock (NVB)
June 28th, 1928: Henry T. Rainey, former Speaker of the House (D-IL), and Senator Alben W. Barkley (D-TN), are nominated as presidential and vice-presidential candidates by the DNC; Al Smith, expecting that the GOP would win in '28 and not wanting to be beaten again, had not seriously campaigned, while Cordell Hull found himself outmaneuvered.
July 28th, 1928: The Games of the IX Olympiad open in Los Angeles, California. The US, host of the Games, wins 61 medals in total, including 24 gold medals.
November 6th, 1928: Republicans Herbert Hoover and William Borah defeat Rainey and Barkley, winning 55% of the popular vote and 367 electoral votes to the Rainey-Barkley ticket's 43% and 166 electoral votes.
1929:
January 4th, 1929: Paul Von Hindenberg considers running for the Presidency of Germany in the up-coming election, but is talked out of it due to his age, even though he gets backing from several high-ranking army figures.
December 5th, 1929: Leroy Grumman, Igor Sikorsky, and four other former Loening employees, unwilling to move to Pennsylvania (home of the Keystone Aircraft Corporation that bought Loening in '28), found the Sikorsky-Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation on Long Island.
August 26th, 1921: Franklin D. Roosevelt dies after spending nearly a month with deteriorating health from catching some sort of illness during his trip to Canada.
December 10th, 1921: Shortly after receiving the Nobel Prize for Physics in recognition of his explanation of the photo-electric effect, Albert Einstein is killed in a chance car accident in Sweden, much to the dismay of many.
1922:
February 10th, 1922: The Washington Naval Conference breaks down; no treaty is produced. The delegates do agree to meet again in six months.
April 11th, 1922: Herbert O. Yardley, head of the Black Chamber, is struck by a car on the way to work; he is forced to stay in the hospital for six months, recuperating.
November 11th, 1922: Vladimir Lenin reads his testament aloud before the Soviet Party. It has been slightly altered, after a few visits from both Stalin and Trotsky, and the Testament now criticized Stalin greatly, suggested that he be replaced as General Secretary, and it even went so far as to suggest that Trotsky take his place. After the reading of the testament, Stalin leaves the building to think, and is assassinated once outside by an OGPU agent, who escapes.
December 4th, 1922: The Washington Naval Arms Treaty is signed by representatives of the UK, Japan and the US. It declares a halt to new battleship and battlecruiser construction (with battleships and battlecruisers defined as ships of 18000t or greater, mounting cannon of 13" (330mm) or greater caliber), and to the fortification of League mandate territories in the Pacific (and of the Aleutians and Guam). It is far weaker than the treaty proposed in the first round, but the intransigent American and Japanese delegations are unwilling to compromise further - especially after the French and Italians had already walked out.
December 5th, 1922: After the WashingtonTreaty is sign but does not say how many aircraft carrier can be made out the lay down battleships or battlecruiser the US turns are 6 Lexington Class Battlecruisers into aircraft carriers.
December 6th, 1922: Japan follow the US lead and turns the 2 Tosa Class battleship into Kaga Class Carriers and the two laid down Amagi Class battlecruisers into Amagi Class Carriers and cancels the other two Amagi Class battlecruiser who have been yet to later down.
December 20th, 1922: HMS Howe, HMS Rodney and HMS Anson, the three sisters to HMS Hood, are reordered as aircraft carriers.
1923:
January 22nd, 1923: The Toll of the Sea, the first all-color Hollywood film, is released, two months after the original print was damaged. It sees rave reviews, particularly for star Anna May Wong.
July 20th, 1923: An attempted assassination of Pancho Villa fails, thanks to the effective response of Villa's bodyguards.
August 2nd, 1923: Warren G. Harding suffers a heartattack. Despite the scare, docters are able to save his life, and he recovers quickly.
September 1st, 1923: A moderately strong earthquake - 4.9 on the Richter scale - hits the Kanto plain.
November 9th, 1923: The Beer Hall Putsch ends as the police show up. There is a misfire, resulting in the unfortunate death of one young Adolf Hitler.
1924:
January 21st, 1924: Lenin dies; Kamenev takes over his post on the Council of Labour and Defense, but Trotsky's ally Preobrazhensky takes over Sovnarkom instead of Rykov (Lenin's deputy in Sovnarkom).
March 21st, 1924: Anna May Wong Productions is founded by the popular film star and the investor Sid Grauman, just three days after Wong's second success, The Thief of Baghdad, was released. The company plans to raise money for films centered on Chinese myths and starring the popular actress.
May 4th, 1924: Igor Sikorsky crashes his S-29-A on its maiden flight; though he is uninjured, his company folds.
September 2nd, 1924: A Category 3 hurricane, the fourth tropical storm of the 1924 hurricane season, slams into Savannah, Georgia, causing significant damage to a number of historic buildings in the city - most notably the Sorrel Weed House.
October 29th, 1924: Frederick Fox Riley, defeating Liberal Robert Strother Stewart and Tory Harold MacMillan, is one of the 154 Labour Party MPs elected in 1924 - not enough to preserve the minority government that had been in place since January, but more than enough to displace the Liberals as the chief rival to the Conservatives.
November 4th, 1924: President Harding is reelected in a landslide over Democratic candidate Al Smith of New York.
1925:
January 24th, 1925: Chicago's north side crime boss Hymie Weiss and Bugs Moran attempt to assassinate rival Johnny Torrio outside his home. Torrio is tiped off however, and is waiting for them. Weiss and Moran are both killed in a hail of gunfire, throwing the North Side into chaos.
February 18th, 1925: Bukharin's Right Opposition and Kamenev's Center Movement successfully oust Preobrazhensky from Sovnarkom; Zinoviev, Kamenev's most loyal ally, replaces him.
March 4th, 1925: Trotsky resigns from the position of General Secretary, unable to cope with the workload; he cites a desire to refocus attention on reforming and modernizing the Red Army, and proposes that his protege Georgy Pyatakov, deputy chair of Gosplan, take over the post of General Secretary.
April 17th, 1925: Sikorsky is hired by Grover Loening, director of the Loening Aeronautical Engineering corporation, joining Leroy Grumman.
May 11th, 1925: The doctor informs Mr. Nixon that his son, Arthur, only has the cold and should recover within the week.
May 18th, 1925: Arthur Nixon is once again fully healthy.
August 19th, 1925: Arthur Nixon is still completely fine.
October 1st, 1925: German negotiators successfully chip away at the naval limitations imposed on the Reichsmarine by the Treaty of Versailles. Germany was now granted the right to field six heavy cruisers (with armament of up to 12" (304.8mm)) of up to 12000t displacement, eight light cruisers of up to 6000t displacement, 18 destroyers of up to 800t displacement, and 20 torpedo boats.
October 15th, 1925: On a clear day in Pittsburgh, Washington Senators ace pitcher Walter Johnson wins Game 7 of the World Series, 6-3.
December 9th, 1925: Mulan, Maid of China, the first film by Anna May Wong Productions, is released, and proves wildly successful.
1926:
January 11th, 1926: Hannah Milhous Nixon discovers that she is once again pregnant with a child.
February 12th, 1926: Frances Stevenson, the mistress of David Lloyd George [DLG], gives birth to a baby girl. She names DLG as the father. He decides to accept paternity. The parents give the name Myfanwy (Welsh for beloved) to their daughter.
February 14th, 1926: Margaret Lloyd George, DLG's wife, says that she will stand by her husband. She had known for several years about his infidelity with Miss Stevenson, but she knows in her heart that she is David's first and deepest love. She will love and care for Myfanwy as if she were her own daughter.
February 17th, 1926: In order to take maximum advantage of DLG's public admission of adultery to stop him becoming leader of the Liberal Party, Herbert Asquith resigns as leader.
February 18th, 1926 : DLG says that 'for personal reasons' he will not be standing for leadership of the Liberal Party.
February 19th, 1926: Walter Runciman announces his candidature for leadership of the Liberal Party. As one of the few Liberal MPs elected in the October 1924 general election against both Tory and Labour opponents (he captured Swansea, West from Labour), he said he would keep the party independent of any pact or alliance with the Tories or Labour.
February 20th, 1926: William Wedgwood Benn announces that he is standing for leader of the Liberal Party with the intention of returning the party to its radical roots.
February 21st, 1926: Sir Robert Hutchison, the assistant whip, announces that he is standing for leader of the Liberal Party, He was a Lloyd George Liberal. The other two candidates were Asquithian Liberals.
February 22nd, 1926 : Sir John Simon declares that he is giving his full support to Runciman in the Liberal leadership contest.
March 10th, 1926: First ballot of Liberal MPs: Hutchison 18 votes, Runciman 13 votes, Wedgwood Benn 9 votes. Wedgwood Benn withdraws from the contest.
March 11th, 1926: Wedgwood Benn declares that Runciman has his full support in the leadership contest. He asks all the MPs who voted for him to vote for Runciman on the second ballot.
March 17th, 1926 Result of second ballot of Liberal MPs: Runciman 22 votes, Hutchison 18 votes. Runciman becomes leader of the Liberal Party.
March 31st, 1926: J Edgar Hoover leaves the Justice of Department after photos are found with him and a second man in the bedroom with there pants down.
June 27th, 1926: Heinrich Himmler is kill went he is hit with a car as he walks acroos the street.
August 30rd, 1926: Gustav Stresemann becomes German Chancellor for the third time.
September 12th, 1926: Mao Zedong is caught by Republic of China force is place in jail to stand trail.
November 3rd, 1926: Nellie Tayloe Ross, a progressive 'dry' Democrat, is narrowly re-elected as governor of Wyoming, defeating Republican Frank Emerson; the same day, corrupt 'wet' Democrat Ma Ferguson, having won a bruising primary fight earlier in the year, is re-elected governor of Texas.
December 21st, 1926: French ace René Fonck wins the Orteig Prize, flying a Keystone K-47A Pathfinder biplane from Roosevelt Airfield in New York to Paris Le Bourget, accompanied by navigator Charles Clavier.
December 25th, 1926: A general strike in Cologne turns into a riot as local police are goaded into brutality.
December 26, 1926: Rioters, strikers, and various other malcontents hole up in the main building of the University of Cologne. Mayor Konrad Adenauer personally orders police to storm the building; eleven die in the fighting, including four policemen, and the building itself is wrecked.
1927:
April 28th, 1927: Li Dazhao, co-founder of the Communist Party of China, escapes the KMT purge of Communists, surviving only with the support of Soviet agents.
June 3rd, 1927: President Warren G. Harding signs the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Act into law, attempting to maintain 1913 agricultural price levels and counteract the overproduction that had occurred during the Great War by purchasing surplus crops for sale overseas; losses incurred would be made up for by fees against farm producers.
August 19th, 1927: Mendez Nunez, converted into an aircraft carrier, commissions into the Spanish Navy, twelve years after she was ordered.
1928:
January 17th, 1928: Huey Long wins re-election as governor of Louisiana, winning 45% of the vote - well more than the 27% won by each of the anti-Long candidates.
June 1st, 1928: Following the disastrous election results, the new DNVP chairman Alfred Hugenberg takes a new radical volkish course in the DNVP special conference in Stettin.
July 19th, 1928: In the Wiesbaden Conference Hugenbergs DVNP merges with General Ludendorffs Voelkisch-Nationale Block (NVP) and Josef Goebbles National Sozialistische Partei Deutschlands (NSPD).
They form the Nationale Volksblock (NVB)
June 28th, 1928: Henry T. Rainey, former Speaker of the House (D-IL), and Senator Alben W. Barkley (D-TN), are nominated as presidential and vice-presidential candidates by the DNC; Al Smith, expecting that the GOP would win in '28 and not wanting to be beaten again, had not seriously campaigned, while Cordell Hull found himself outmaneuvered.
July 28th, 1928: The Games of the IX Olympiad open in Los Angeles, California. The US, host of the Games, wins 61 medals in total, including 24 gold medals.
November 6th, 1928: Republicans Herbert Hoover and William Borah defeat Rainey and Barkley, winning 55% of the popular vote and 367 electoral votes to the Rainey-Barkley ticket's 43% and 166 electoral votes.
1929:
January 4th, 1929: Paul Von Hindenberg considers running for the Presidency of Germany in the up-coming election, but is talked out of it due to his age, even though he gets backing from several high-ranking army figures.
December 5th, 1929: Leroy Grumman, Igor Sikorsky, and four other former Loening employees, unwilling to move to Pennsylvania (home of the Keystone Aircraft Corporation that bought Loening in '28), found the Sikorsky-Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation on Long Island.
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