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From 1920 to 1929++ (Beginning of The Great Depression)

This file is devoted to presenting basic Timeline information for website readers. The items are often sketchy, and some have been extracted from other websites managed by Dan Byrnes. These Timelines will be added-to intermittently, as new data and new e-mail arrives. Book titles will be entered according to the timeframes they treat. -Ed

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1921: First meeting held of Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai. Thirteen delegates represent fifty members.

1921: Bulk wheat is first shipped from Sydney.

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1921: First use of the word "robot", in a play, RUR, by Czech writer Karel Capek, from robota, meaning work.

1921: Revolutionaries meet in secret in Shanghai and establish Communist Party of China.

1921: Japan: Hara Takashi, popular Party Prime Minister, is assassinated.

1921-19222: Japan: Washington Conference - limit the ratio of the capital ships to between 3 and 5 with the US and Great Britain, not build bases beyond Hawaii and Singapore

1922-1948: Britain ruled Palestine, Jordan, and Iraq under League of Nations Mandates. France controlled Syria and Lebanon.

1922: Britain, France and Italy warn Greece against attempted occupation of Palestine.

1922 - Japan Communist Party founded.

1922: G. Marconi in Essex, UK, begins Britain's first regular broadcasting transmissions.

In the early 1920s, "there were about 600 car-maker wannabes in the US", who were outclassed by Henry Ford and the Model T. As Claimed in June 2000 in an Australian newspaper in respect of the massive recent failures of dot.coms and Internet start-ups of all kinds.

1923: The U.S. Treasury Department's Narcotics Division (the first federal drug agency) bans all legal narcotics sales. With the prohibition of legal venues to purchase heroin, addicts are forced to buy from illegal street dealers.
From website based on book: Opium: A History, by Martin Booth Simon and Schuster, Ltd., 1996. e-mail info@opioids.com

1923: Japan: Great Kanto Earthquake

In 1923: "There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." said Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize physicist, 1923.

In the early 1920s, "there were about 600 car-maker wannabes in the US", who were outclassed by Henry Ford and the Model T. As Claimed in June 2000 in an Australian newspaper in respect of the massive recent failures of dot.coms and Internet start-ups of all kinds.

23 November 1923: Regular radio broadcasts begin in Australia.

1924: More to come

1925: The Klu Klux Klan stages a massive rally in Washington, USA, with 40,000 robed klansmen marching down Pennsylvania Avenue.

1925 - the vote was given to all adult males (Universal male suffrage). Legislation, the Peace Preservation Law, to suppress the left is enacted - a crime to advocate a basic change in the political system or abolition of private property (lacked emotional and intellectual support for the democracy). Scandals erode faith in party politics and government.

1925: In the wake of the first US federal ban on opium, a thriving black market opens up in New York's Chinatown.
From website based on book: Opium: A History, by Martin Booth Simon and Schuster, Ltd., 1996. e-mail info@opioids.com

1925: First use of word "sexy", regarded as an English expression in a French magazine.

1925: 19 July: Adolf Hitler publishes first volume of his manifesto, Mein Kampf.

1924-1926: Hitler is writing parts of his book, Mein Kampf at his "home" in Obersalzberg, Bavaria.

1926: World's first sound movies premieres in New York.

1926: Japan: Taisho Emperor dies. Asian markets became open because the Western nations left Pacific. influence from Russian Revolution labor movement JPN's foreign policy moved from the military orientation to policies more in line with business interests.

1926: Japan: SHOWA Period, Emperor Showa (Hirohito).

1926: Year television is born.
1926: John Logie Baird demonstrates television - a year later, talking pictures begin, ushering in a new industry, film, cinema, Hollywood.

1926, Abolition of custom of harem-keeping in Turkey, as outlawed by Kemal Ataturk.

1927: Japan: General Tanaka Giichi - president of Seiyuukai - became prime minister - army - actual operations are free of civilian control. Writer Akutagawa Ryuunosuke commits suicide, leaving behind prophetic statement that Japanese society was falling into a dark valley. Economy collapsing. Many farmers forced to sell daughters into prostitution. Democracy appears to fail and political parties are blamed. Young military patriots seek spiritual solution.

1928: Japan: Army's assassination of the Chinese warlord in Manchuria

1928, The forward-thinking Hermann Potocnik (alias Hermann Noordung), a Croation army artillery expert and engineering consultant, draws an idea for a geostationary space station, termed "The Habitat Wheel". NASA has distributed copies of the drawing. See Potocnik's book, Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums: Der Raketen Motor. Published in Berlin by Carl Schmidt and Company; (The Problem of Space Flying) now available from NASA in English. Also about now (1929), a series of articles on The Problems of Space Flying published in the US. Potocnik corresponded with the German rocket scientist Hermann Oberth, who invented liquid-fuel rockets and "virtually launched the idea of space flight". Oberth in 1923 wrote an essay: "The Rocket into Interplanetary Space". Werner von Braun took some ideas here in 1929 as a schoolboy writing on space travel. Later US interests in space flight were stimulated by Willy Ley's book, Rockets: The Future of Space Travel Beyond the Stratosphere. (Viking). Arthur C. Clarke, today's guru, wrote an October 1945 article in Wireless World, citing his debt to Potocnik's ideas. In 1911 and 1926, a Russian school teacher, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky wrote on geostationary orbits.

1928: Emmeline Pankhurst, (1858-1928), activist for women's rights and suffrage.

1928: Turkey is declared a secular state.

In 1927, "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" Question from H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers.

1928: The first all-talking feature film, The Lights of New York, premiers in New York.

1928: A South Seas Communist Party arises in Singapore, the Malayan Communist Party began in 1930.

1929: Japan: American stock market crash plus self sufficiency - population problem.

1929: Beginning of the world's Great Depression.

1920s: TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL - Teapot Dome was the name of a U.S.-owned oil field in Wyoming. When he was secretary of the interior under Warren Harding, Albert Fall secretly leased the oil reserves to a businessman who gave Fall hundreds of thousands of dollars in no-interest loans. Fall always insisted he was innocent. He was indicted and convicted, becoming the first cabinet member ever to go to prison. From a list by Yi-Ann Christine Chen (History News Network) on USA's greatest scandals list at www.purewatergazette.net/greatestscandals.htm)

1931: India: Mahatma Ghandi is released from prison and to hold talks with government, all part of his campaign of civil disobedience.

1932: COLLAPSE OF THE EMPIRE OF SAMUEL INSULL -- Once president of the Edison power company, Samuel Insull was by the 1930s the head of a giant utility holding company. Its collection of companies was said to be so vast and so complicated that not even Insull understood fully how much he was worth or how much of the industry he controlled. In 1932 as the stock market sank and the banks he had borrowed money from demanded control of his companies, his empire collapsed. Investors are said to have lost 700 million dollars, the largest corporate failure in American history until the S & L scandal. Insull was indicted for mail fraud, bankruptcy and embezzlement but fled the country. Eventually, he returned and was put on trial and was acquitted. The courts ruled that a holding company could not be held responsible for the acts of the companies it controlled. From a list by Yi-Ann Christine Chen (History News Network) on USA's greatest scandals list at www.purewatergazette.net/greatestscandals.htm)

1938: Kuwait: First oil discovery in Kuwait, on the Arabian Peninsula.

1942: Japanese submarine shells an oil refinery near Santa Babara, California, USA.

1948: USA: NBC-TV begins airing its first nightly newscast.

1949: Captain James Gallagher completes the first non-stop around-the-world flight. He completed the 37,742 flight in 94 hours one minute in a B-50 Superforte plane.

1959: Fidel Castro is sworn in as prime minister of Cuba after leading a guerilla campaign that ousts right-wing dictator, Fulgencio Batista on 1 January. (By 2005, Castro is still at the helm of Cuba!)

1965: Vietnam: The military seizes power in South Vietnam, ousting the civilian government of Tran Van Huong.

1968: USA: The USA inaugurates its first 911 emergency telephone system in Haleyville, Alabama.

Empire, 1970: Indian-Pacific Train between Sydney and Perth makes its first run.

1970: A new constitution is adopted in Rhodesia, turning the country (Zimbabwe) into a republic.

1970: A Boeing 747 Jumbo jet arrives at London's Heathrow Airport after its first proving flight from New York.

1970: Soviet Russia: Moscow says Arab nations will receive “necessary support:” from the Soviet Union in their dispute(s) with Israel.

1978: Japan and China sign US$20 billion trade pact in Beijing.

1980s: SAVINGS AND LOAN -- Thrifts in the USA had been established originally to help homeowners obtain mortgages. But in the 1970s inflation undermined the stability of the industry, sticking the thrifts with low-interest mortgages arranged years before when inflation was slight. To help the thrifts survive Congress deregulated the industry, lifting restrictions on the kinds of loans they could make. Swindlers immediately took over the industry. As the saying went, "why rob a bank if you can own one." By the end of the 1980s the thrifts were in danger of collapsing after approving billions in insider loans for worthless projects. Congress eventually bailed out the industry at taxpayer expense. From a list by Yi-Ann Christine Chen (History News Network) on USA's greatest scandals list at www.purewatergazette.net/greatestscandals.htm)

1981: Spain: Attempted coup begins in Spain as 200 members of the Civil Guard invade Parliament, taking lawmakers hostage, an attempt that last only 18 hours and then collapses.

1987: Major stock market crash in USA.

2000-2004: In USA, the dot-com boom and bust.

2001: India: An earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale strikes the western Indian state of Gujarat, killing 18,000 people.

2008: Global Financial Crash, with dire consequences lasting into 2011, particularly with the economies of Greece, Portugal and Spain, said to be possibly endangering the financial health of the EU.

Below are items still uncollected

1854: Banker Richard St Leger Glyn (1825-1873). He is on board of Union Bank 1854-1864. See p. 32 of Merrett on ANZ. Burke's P&B for Wolverton. See Union Bank chairman LM Peter Laurie qv. Fulford on Glyn's, p. 178.

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