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Paul Klee becomes a teacher at the Bauhaus in Weimar
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is paralyzed from the waist down by polio
The Czech playwright Karel Capek gives the world the term 'robot', in the title of his play Rossum's Universal Robots
Russian author Maxim Gorky goes abroad for medical treatment and lives for the next seven years in Italy
James Craig (later Lord Craigavon) begins a 19-year term as prime minister of the new province of Northern Ireland
Envoys sent to London by de Valera agree independence for southern Ireland as the Irish Free State, with Dominion status
The Anglo-Irish Treaty, agreed in London, ends the war between the British army and the IRA
The Swiss architect Le Corbusier begins a 20-year partnership with his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret
Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi party, which now has about 3000 members
Italian immigrant anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are convicted of murder in a US trial flawed by prejudice
Mao Zedong leads a delegation to the First Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai
Tulsa race riots cap previous levels of violence, with more than eighty-five blacks killed
The British parliament ratifies the Anglo-Irish treaty, but de Valera repudiates it and resigns as president of the Dáil
Italian sex symbol Rudolph Valentino has two sensational hits within the same year, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and The Sheik
Faisal, having lost Syria, is given the throne in the British mandated territory of Iraq
Somerset Maugham's short story 'Rain' (in his collection The Trembling of a Leaf) introduces the lively American prostitute Sadie Thompson
The British airship R-38 bursts into flames on its fourth flight and crashes into the Humber
Abd-el-Krim wins a sensational victory over Spanish forces in Morocco and gains control of the Rif
Marianne Moore calls her first published collection simply Poems
Ludwig Wittgenstein publishes his influential study of the philosophy of logic, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
Taras Bulba, a rhapsody for orchestra by Leos Janacek, is first performed in Brno
Janacek's opera Kátya Kabanová, based on Ostrovsky's play The Storm, has its premiere in Brno
Eugene O'Neill's play Anna Christie is performed in New York
W.L. Mackenzie King begins a nine-year spell as Canadian prime minister, albeit with a brief interruption in 1926
Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman to sit in Canada's parliament
