Saint Joan of Arc (1412-1431) was canonized by Pope Benedict XV.
He also canonized Saint Gabriel Posenti (1838-February 27, 1862).
World population: 1,811,000,000.
U.S. population: 117,823,165.
Treaty of Trianon between Allies and Hungary.
Mahatma Ghandi led the struggle for independence in India.
John T. Thompson invented the Tommy repeating submachine gun.
King Alexander of Greece (-1920) died and Constantine returned to Athens.
President Caranza of Mexico was assassinated.
Paul Deschanel became president and Mitterand became premier of France.
The Government of Ireland Act was passed in Great Britain, creating The Republics of Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.
3,747 divorces in Britain.
U.S. Senate declined to join the League of Nations which was organized in Paris
and Geneva, Switzerland.
The 18th amendment, Prohibition of alcoholic beverages, went into effect.
19th amendment to the US constitution gave women the right to vote.
8,890,000 autos licensed in USA; 663,000 in Britain.
First airmail, NY to SF CA.
First American Radio broadcasts by Westinghouse in Pittsburg, PA.
Inkblot tests were invented by Herman Rorschach.
Charles Evans Jr. was the US Amateur Golf Association Champion.-NR
Joe Jackson and 4 others of the Chicago "Black Sox" were banned from baseball by Judge K.M. Landis, for fixing games.-NR
Babe Ruth was sold for $125,000.
Stanley Frank �Stan-theMan� Musial (1920-), Saint Louis Cardinals baseball home-run hitter, was born.
Publications:
Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton, won the Pulitzer prize.
Outline of History, by H.G. Wells.
Bliss, by Katherine Mansfield.
Space, Time and Deity, tome by Samuel Alexander.
Introduction to the History of Religion, by Nathan Soderblom.
This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The Last Days of Mankind, tragedy by Karl Kraus.
Silent movie houses across America were showing:
Cesare Borgia, directed by Guazzoni.
Pollyanna, with Mary Pickford.
Way Down East, by D.W. Griffith.
Art:
Christ Carrying the Cross, was painted by Stanley Spencer.
Church, was painted by Lyonel Feininger.
Music:
The Planets, was composed by Gustav Holst.
The Legend of Saint Christopher, opera by Vincent d'Indy, was produced in Paris.
Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra, known for swingtime jazz, toured Europe.
January-
14: William Nieman (1886-1958)'s 34th birthday.
20: Federico Fellini (1920-) Italian director of many films, including the autobiographical 8 1/2 (1962) was born at Rimini, Italy.
February-
4: James Nieman's 8th birthday.
18: Ash Wednesday.
20: Blessed Jacinta Marto (-1920), the second of the Fatima seers, died. She was beatified on April 9, 2000.
March-
22: Anna Margaret "Aunt Annie" Nieman (1883-19)'s birthday.
Lucia Abobora (1907-)'s 13th birthday in Fatima.
April-
4: Easter.
15: Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested.
19: Alejandro Labaka Ugarte (1920-87) was born in Spain.
May-
1: Sister Fernanda Riva fdcc Cannosiane (1920-56) was born.
2: Maria Addolorata of the Sacred Side Luciani CP (1920-54) was born.
13: Feast of the Ascension of Jesus from the dead. Pope Benedict canonized Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque.
16: Saint Joan of Arc (1412-31) was canonized by Pope Benedict XV.
18: Karol Wojtyla/Pope John Paul II (1920-), was born in Poland.
Solar eclipse.
23: Beatification of Oliver Plunket of Ireland.
25: Fr. Ed Eisenman, uncle of Angela Bragg, was ordained a priest.
28: Quintino Sicuro (1920-68) was born.
29: Giovanni Battista Montini(later Pope Paul VI) was ordained a priest.
Jerome Kern's musical play, Sally was produced by Clifford Grey, Guy Bolton, and Joseph Urban, broke box office records, grossed $38,985 per week on Bradway, NYC.
30: Beatification of Blessed Anne Marie Taigi (1769-1837) and of Saint John Maria Muzeyi (-1886).
June-
8-12: US Senator from California, Hiram Johnson's smoke filled room politics against the candidacy of Warren Harding (1865-1923) during his campaign for the US Presidency.
19: Fred Niemann's 11th birthday.
24: Manuel Antonio Borba was born to Joao and Maria in Azores Islands.
They were Portugese immigrants who later moved to Brazil.
July-
August-
9: Manuel Lozano Garrido (1920-71), a layman, was born at Linares, Jaen.
25: Main Street novel by Sinclair Lewis.
Dolores Gray's 1st birthday.
Adolf Hitler's 25 points program presented at Hofbrauhaus in Munich.
26: Women's right to vote proclaimed in U.S.
September-
Fred Nieman entered sixth grade and James was in third grade at Saint Elizabeth's School.
Marian (Nieman) Claussen couldn�t understand why she had to go to 1st grade, since she was daddy's princess.
Then, to add insult to injury, her baby sister, Cecilia, was born.
4: Sarah Nieman (1889-55)'s 31st birthday.
Sugar Ray Robinson, black boxer, was born.
11: Saturday. 3AM- Cecilia Elizabeth "Ceil"
(Nieman) Gray (1920-August 13, 1991) was born to William and Sarah (Dixon) Nieman, at 480 North 24th Street, in East Saint Louis Illinoia. See
Aunt Tillie's Diary.
12: Sunday. Sarah and William Nieman's 12th wedding anniversary.
Ceil was baptised at Saint Elizabeth's Church on the corner of Ridge Road and 25th Street.
Amedeo Modigliani (-1920), artist, died.
15: Spiritus Paraclitus, Holy Spirit encyclical delivered by Benedict XV.
29: Marian Nieman (1914-9_)'s 6th birthday, she was in first grade at Saint Elizabeth's School.
October-
November-
2: Republicans, Warren G. Harding (1865-1923), President of USA and Calvin Coolidge, VP,
elected, over democrats, James M. Cox and FDR.
Harding's 1st radio address from the Minnesota State Fair.
December-
4: Bob Gray (1917-78)'s 3rd birthday
25: Cecilia Nieman (1920-91)'s first Christmas.
Christmas Radio concert was broadcast from Konigswusterhausen, Germany.