• Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German statesman d. (b. 1856)
• First Indian Parliament meets
• Paris conference of Allies fixes Ger. reparation payments
• Winston S. Churchill becomes Colonial Secretary
• Reza-Khan (1878-1944) carries out a coup d'etat in Teheran
• Warren G. Harding inaugurated as 29^th President of the U.S.
• Eduardo Dato, Span. Prime Minister assassinated
• Anglo-Soviet trade agreement
• Upper Silesian plebiscite -63 % vote for incorporation into Germany
• Ex-Emperor Charles's first coup to regain throne of Hungary fails
• Reparation Comission fixes German's liability at $33,250 million.
• Capital Punishment abolished in Sweden
• British Legion founded
• Walter Rathenau appointed Ger. Minister for Reconstruction
• Hitler's storm troopers (SA) begin terrorizing political opponents
• London Imperial Conference
• Faisal I (1885-1933) becomes King of Iraq
• Ger. Finance Minister Mathias Erzberger assassinated
• Revolution in Lisbon; Antonio Machado Santos, founder of the republic, murdered
• Ex-Emperor Charles fails in his second attempt to regain the throne of Hungary
• Takashi Hara, Premier of Japan, assassinated
• Washington Conference on disarmament
• Jap. Crown Prince Hirohito (b. 1901) named prince regent; his father retires because of mental illness
• Rapid fall of the German mark: beginning of inflation
• Britain and Ireland sign peace treaty
• Mackenzie King (1874-1950) elected Prime Minister of Canada
• Lord Reading (1860-1935) appointed Viceroy of India, succeeding Lord Chelmsford
• Eduard Benes (1884-1948) elected Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia
• Nobel Peace Prize: Hjalmar Branting and Christian Lange
• Prince Philip zu Eulenburg-Hertefeld, William II's friend and advisor d. (b. 1847)
• Philander C. Knox, American politician d. (b. 1853)
• King Peter I of Serbia d. (b. 1844)
• H. M. Hyndman, English socialist politician, d. (b. 1842)
• James Cardinal Gibbons, American prelate, d. (b. 1834)
• A. H. Bruce, 6^th Baron Balfour of Bruleigh, Scotland statesman, d. (b. 1849)
• Sir John S. Cowans, Quartermaster-General of British army in W.W.I, d. (b. 1862)
• H. S. Giffard, 1^st Earl of Halsbury, British statesman, d. (b. 1823)
• Charles Evans Hughes named U.S. Secretary of State
• Andrew Mellon names Secretary of Treasury
• Former President William Howard Taft named Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
• Boies Penrose, senator form Pennsylvania, political boss, d. (b. 1860)
• President Harding commutes Eugene Debs' 10-year sentence

• Sherwood Anderson: "The Triumph of the Egg"
• Johan Bojar: "Der Sidste Viking," Norw. novel
• Karel and Joseph Capek: "The Life of the Insects"
• Marc Connelly and George S. Kaufman: "Dulcy," comedy
• Grazia Deledda: "Il segreto dell, uomo solitario" ("The Secret")
• Austin Dobson, Eng. poet, d. (b. 1840)
• John Dos Passos: "Three Soldiers"
• Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss dramatist and novelist, b. (d. 1990)
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Anatole France
• John Galsworthy: "A Family Man"
• Gaiety Theatre (founded in 1907) closes due to lack of support
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal: "Der Schwierige" ("The Difficult One")
• Aldous Huxley: "Chrome Yellow"
• D. H. Lawrence: "Women in Love"
• Gabriel Marcel: "La Coeur de autres"
• W. Somerset Maugham: "The Circle," drama
• George Moore: "Heloise and Abelard"
• Eugene O'Neill: "Anna Christie"
• Luigi Perandello: "Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore" ("Six Characters in Search of an Author")
• Ezra Pound: "Poems- 1918-1921"
• "Der Querschmitt" ("The Cross-Cut"), German intellectual periodical, appears
• Jean Sarment: "Le Pecheur d'ombres"
• Bernard Shaw: "Heartbreak House"
• Lytton Strachey: "Queen Victoria"
• Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian Poet, d. (b. 1850)
• Virginia Wolf: "Monday of Tuesday"
• J. G. Huneker, American man of letters, d. (b. 1860)
• V. G. Korolenko, Russian novlesit d. (b. 1853)
• Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spanish novelist, d. (b. 1851)
• Edgar Saltus, American man of letters, d. (b. 1855)
• Harriet E. Spofford, American poet and novelist, d. (b. 1844)
• Sir John Hare, English actor and producer, d. (b. 1844)
• William Archer: "The Green Goddess", drama
• Walter de la Mare: "Memoirs of a Midget"
• Arthur Waley: "The No Plays of Japan"
• Best Seller: "Scaramouche", by Rafael Sabatini
• Ed Wynn: "The Perfect Fool"

Religion, Philosophy, and Learning

• Charles Baudouin: "Suggestion and Autosuggestion" (presentation of the method of Coue')
• James Bryce: "Modern Democracies"
• Prince Peter Kropotkin, Russian scientist and anarchist, d. (B. 1842)
• J. M. E. McTaggart: "The Nature of Existence" (Eng. neo-Hegelianist)
• Maurice Maeterlinck: "Le Grand Secret"
• Gilbert Murray: "The Problem of Foreign Policy"
• Hermann Rorschach: "Psychodiagnostic"
• Bertrand Russell: "The Analysis of the Mind"
• Albert Schweitzer: "On the Edge of the Primeval Forest"
• E. Stern-Rubarth: "Propaganda as a Political Weapon"
• Joseph Wiessberg (1855-1941), Berlin, "Health Apostle", at the height of is fame
• Ludwig Wittgenstein: "Logico-Philosophicus"
• John Burroughs, Amre. naturalist, d. (b. 1837)
• Max Verworn, Ger. Physiologist, d. (b. 1863)
• Barret Wendell, American scholar, Harvard educator, d. (b. 1855)
• William Warde Fowler, Eng. historian of ancient Rome, d. (b. 1847)

• Geroges Braque: "Still Life with Guitar"
• Carlo Carra' (1881-1966): "Stone-pine at the Sea" Italian futurism
• Franz Defregger, Aust. genre painter, d. (b. 1835)
• Max Ernst: "the Elephant Celebes", surrealism
• Films: "Dream Street", (D. W. Griffith); "Anna Boleyn" (Lubitsch); "The Weary Death" (Fritz Lang); "The Kid" (Chaplin)
• Adolf von Hildebrand, Ger. sculptor, d. (b. 1847)
• Paul Klee: "The Fish"
• Oskar Kikischka: "Music", expressionist painting
• Fernand Leger: "Three Women"
• Frans Masereel: "Passion of a Man" (series of woodcuts)
• William Friese-Greene, Eng. film pioneer, d. (b. 1855)
• Edvard Munch: "The Kiss"
• Pablo Picasso: "Three Musicians"
• The Duke of Westminster sells Gainsboroughs's "Blue Boy" and Reynold's "Portrait of Mrs. Siddons for £200,000 to American collector Collis Huntington

• Irving Berlin, first of the "Music Box Revues," New York
• Enrico Caruso, Ital. operatic tenor, d. (b. 1873)
• Paul Hindemith: "Morder, Hoffnung der Frausen" and "Das Nusch-Nuschi", one-act operas, Stuttgart
• Arthur Honegger: "Le Roi David"
• Engelbert Humperdink, Ger. composer, d. (b. 1854)
• Leos Janacek: "Katya Kabynova", opera, Brno
• Eduard Kunnecke: "Der Vetter aus Dingsda" ("The Cousin from Nowhere"), Berlin
• British Musicians Union founded in London
• Hans Pftizner: "Von deutscher Seele", Op. 28, romantic cantata
• Sergei Prokofiev: "The Love for Three Oranges", opera, Chicago
• Sigmund Romberg: "Blossom Time" (based on the Viennese operetta "Das Dreimaderlhaus") ("The Life and Music of Franz Schubert"), New York
• Camille Saint-Saens, French composer, d. (b. 1835)
• The remodeled Teatro alla Scala opens under the leadership of Arturo Toscanini
• Christine Nilsson, Swed. soprano, d. (b. 1843)
• Gervase Elwes, Eng. concert tenor, accidentally killed (b. 1866)
• "Die Walkure" becomes the first Wagnerian opera to be staged at the Paris Opera since before the war
• Deodat de Severac, Fr. composer, d. (b. 1873)
• Igor Stravinsky: "Symphony for Wind Instruments", London Festival of Contemporary Music at Donaueschingen

Science, Technology, and Growth

• Friedrich Bergius (1884-1949) successfully hydrogenates coal to oil
• J. N. Bronsted and G. von Hevesy successfully separate isotopes

• Australia wins the Ashes (cricket)