• In Paris the League of Nations is formed. United States Senate votes against joining.
• Paul Deschanel becomes President of France. Clemenceau resigns; Millerand takes over as Premier of France.
• Red Army captures Odessa.
• Bainbridge Colby succeeds Robert Lansing as U.S. Secretary of State.
• Nicolaus von Horthy (1868-1957) is named Regent of Hungary.
• Emir Feisal becomes king of an independent Syria.
• Wolfgang Kapp stages a short-lived monarchist coup d’etat in Berlin.
• Conference of San Remo deals with question of German reparations; Britain receives Palestine Mandate.
• Conscription abolished in Britain.
• President Caranza of Mexico is assassinated. Adolfo de la Huerta succeeds him.
• Allies and Hungary sign Treaty of Trianon.
• Republican convention nominates Warren G. Harding for the presidency with Calvin Coolidge as his running mate.
• The Hague selected as the seat of International Court of Justice.
• Democratic convention nominates James M. Cox for the presidency with Franklin D. Roosevelt as his running mate.
• Lord John Fisher, British Admiral dies, (b. 1841)
• Eugenie, Empress of France, consort to Napoleon III dies, (b. 1826).
• Treaty of St. Germain comes into force.
• The Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Rumania) formed.
• 19^th Amendment gives American women the right to vote.
• U.S. and China sign tarrif treaty.
• Alexandre Millerand elected French Premier.
• King Alexander of Greece dies, (b. 1893)
• League of Nations headquarters moved to Geneva.
• Warren G. Harding (1865-1923) elected 29^th president of the United States.
• New Austrian constitution comes into force.
• Treaty of Rapallo signed.
• Danzig declared a free city.
• End of Russian Civil War.
• Convention of Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica
• Alvaro Obregon elected President of Mexico.
• King Constantine of Greece returns to Athens as a result of plebiscite.
• Government of Ireland Act passed by the British Parliament.
• Northern and Southern Ireland are each to have own Parliament.
• Otto Meissner (1880-1953) head of the office of the German president (-1945)
• Adoph Hitler announces his 25-point program at the Hofbrauhaus, Munich.
• Gandhi (1869-1948) emerges as India’s leader in its struggle for independence.
• Royal Institute of International Affairs founded in London.
• Niccola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti arrested and indicted for murder of two men in South Braintree, Massachusetts.

• Arnolt Bronnen: "Vatermond"- German expressionist drama
• Van Wyck Brroks: "The Ordeal of Mark Twain"
• Agatha Christie: "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
• Colette: "Cheri"
• F. Wills Crofts: "The Cask"- One of the first modern detective stories
• F. Scott Fitzgerald: "This Side of Paradise"
• John Galsworthy: "In Chancery" and "The Skin Game"
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Knut Hamsun
• Franz Kafka: "A Country Doctor"
• Karl Kraus: "Die letzen Tage der Menscheit" (The Last Days of Mankind), tragedy
• Sinclair Lewis: "Main Street"
• Emel Ludwig: "Goethe"
• A. Milne: "Mr. Pym Passes By"
• Eugene O’Neill: "The Emperor Jones" and "Beyond the Horizon" (Pulitzer Prize for drama)
• Carl Sandburg: "Smoke and Steel"
• Upton Sinclair: "100%, the Story of a Patriot"
• H.G. Wells: "Outline of History"
• Edith Wharton: " The Age of Innocence", (Pulitzer Prize in 1921)

Religion, Philosophy, and Learning

• Alfred Adler: "The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology"
• Samuel Alexander: "Space, Time, and Deity" English Metaphysical realism
• Joan of Arc (1412-1431) canonized by Pope Benedict XV
• C.G. Jung: "Psychological Types"
• Count Herman von Keyserling opens the "School of Wisdom" at Darmstadt
• Bertrand Russell: "The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism"
• George Santayana: "Character and Opinion in the United States"
• Nathan Soderblom: "Introduction to the History of Religion"
• New Universities founded in Honolulu and Rio de Janeiro

• Visitors to the exhibition of Dadaist Art in Cologne are allowed to smash painting.
• Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) "Church" American cubism
• Films: "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"; "the Golem"; "Polyanna" (With Mary Pickford"; "Cesare borgia" Marcel Duchamp makes his first abstract movie
• Max Klinger, german painter and sculptor dies, (b. 1856)
• Henri Matisse (1869-1954) "L’Odalisque"
• Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter, dies (b. 1884)
• Fernand Leger: "The Tug Boat"

• Christmas Radio Concert from Konigswusterhausen, Germany
• Beniamino Gigli makes his debut at the Metropolitan Opera, New York
• Vincent d’Indy: "The Legend of St. Christopher", Paris Opera
• Jerome Kern: "Sally", New York
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "Die tote Staft" ("The Dead City"), Hamburg
• Oskar Straus: "Der Letzte Walzer" (The Last Waltz) Berlin
• Igor Stravinski: "Pulcinella" and "Le Chant du rossignol", ballets, Paris Opera
• Paul Whiteman tours Europe with his band
• Henry Hadley: "Cleopatra’s Night" American opera, New York Metropolitan Opera
• Ralph Vaughan Williams: "London Symphony", the final version
• Camille Saint-Saens Festival held in Athens
• Gustav Holst: "The Planets" first complete performance given in London

Science, Technology, and Growth

• American surgeon Harvey Cushing develops new techniques in brain surgery
• Arthur Stanley Eddington: "Space, Time, and Gravitation"
• Austrian meteorologist Heinrich von Ficker recognizes the importance of the stratosphere in meteorological phenomena
• German engineer Anton Flettner invents the rotor ship, originally designed to propel ships with metal sails
• Nobel Prize for Medicine: August Krogh (1874-1949) for the discovery of the capillary regulation of the conveyance of blood to the muscles
• Nobel Prize for Physics: edouard Guillaume (1861-1938) for discoveries of anomalies in nickel-steel alloys
• Nobel Prize for Chemistry: Walther Nernst (1864-1941) for his formulation of the heat theorem
• Robert Edwin Peary, American Arctic explorer dies (b. 1856)
• Raschig-process utilizes hydrogen chloride in the chlorination of benzene
• Swiss psychiatrist Herman Rorschach (1884-1922) devises the "inkblot" test
• Herman Staudinger (1881-1965) shows that small molecules polymerize by chemical interaction (plastics)
• Retired American army officer John T. Thompson patents his submachine gun (Tommy gun)
• German astronomer Max Wolf (1863-1932) shows the true structure of the Milky Way for the first time (early application of photography to the discovery of asteroids

• Ethelda M. Bleibtrey, American swimming champion is three-time winner at the Antwerp Olympics
• Mexican Alfredo Codona, the great aerialist becomes the first person to perfect the triple-somersault
• In Britain, 3,747 divorces are granted
• Earthquake in Kansu province, China, claims 200,000 victims
• American Professional Football association is formed
• Marconi opens the first public broadcasting station in Britain at Writtle
• Olympic games: after 8 year hiatus, the games are held at Antwerp: 24 sports, 154 events, 2,606 participants, 29 nations,; U.S. wins most events
• Pasadena Rose bowl: Harvard defeats Oregon 7-6; New Year’s Day continues uninterrupted until 1942
• "Babe" Ruth sold by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000
• Statistics- Coal Production: U.S. 645 million tons; Britain 229 million tons, Germany 107 million tons. Petroleum production: U.S. 443 million barrels; Mexico 163 million barrels; Russia 25 million barrels; Motor vehicles licensed: U.S. 8,890,000; Britain 663,000; World Population: 1,811,000,000; New York population: 5,620,000; Los Angeles population: 576,000
• Hugo Stinnes (1870-1924) German Industrialist, begins his attempt to organize a colossal trust
• William T. Tilden (1893-1953) of the U.S. wins Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships, dominates the world tennis till 1925
• Site of original baseball filed at Cooperstown, N.Y. dedicated as permanent memorial
• Westinghouse Company opens the first American broadcasting station in Pittsburgh, Pa
• "Time and Tide" begin to appear
• Unemployment insurance introduced in Britain and Austria
• The sport of water skiing pioneered on Lake Annecy, Maute Savoie, France
• Result of U.S. census of 1920: population 117,823,165
• Bomb explosion in Wall Street kills 35, wounds 130
• "Man O’War" U.S. thoroughbred is retired after winning 20 of 21 races, including the Belmont and Preakness
• First airmail flight from New York to San Francisco
• 18^th Amendment to U.S. Constitution goes into effect: Prohibition throughout the United States.
• Tea bags are developed and sold
• U.S. public debt is $105,700

• Shafts of light project from the Moon
• Furry humanoid killed and photographed on Colombian-Venezuelan border