February 16, 1923 — The inner chamber of King Tut’s tomb is unsealed
Tutankhamen, or King Tut, was one of the most mysterious of the Egyptian pharaohs, largely because his successors had tried...
August 9, 2019
The Complete History
November 20, 1923 — Garrett Morgan patents a traffic signal
Garrett Morgan was not the first to invent or patent a traffic signal, but he was the first to invent...
August 9, 2019
January 26, 1925 — Paul Newman born
One of the greatest actors of the Twentieth Century, Paul Newman starred in – among others – “The Hustler”. “The...
August 4, 2019
July 2, 1925 — Patrice Lumumba born
A Congolese freedom fighter, Patrice Lumumba was one of the leaders of the independence movement that overthrew Belgian colonial rule...
July 29, 2019
May 21, 1927 — Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight
In the 1920’s, aviators were heroes. They were bold explorers and experimenters, pushing back the boundaries of the known. And...
July 14, 2019
July 16, 1927 — Henry Ford publicly apologises for his anti-Semitism
Henry Ford, famously the founder of the Ford Motor Company, was also something of an anti-Semite. The kind of something...
July 9, 2019
November 29, 1927 — Alexander Alekhine becomes World Chess Champion
Alekhine had been a grandmaster since 1914 or thereabouts (the title is not a formal one), and he was on...
July 7, 2019
January 31, 1928 — Leon Trotsky exiled from the Soviet Union
Trotsky was Lenin’s second-in-command during the Russian Revolution, and later the first leader of the Red Army and a high-ranking...
July 4, 2019
March 19, 1928 — “Amos ‘n’ Andy” premieres on radio station WMAQ Chicago
Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll were a pair of comedians and actors who, in 1926, created one of the earliest...
June 29, 2019
May 25, 1928 — Claude Debussy dies
One of the most popular and influential of all French composers, Claude Achille Debussy was on August 22, 1862. Debussy...
June 24, 2019
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