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Germany is the first nation to re-establish full diplomatic relations with Russia
Linus Pauling, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, begins theoretical work on the nature of the chemical bond
US golfer Walter Hagen wins the first of his four victories in the British Open
Bitter war breaks out between factions of the IRA supporting and opposing the Anglo-Irish Treaty
John Reith becomes general manager of the newly formed British Broadcasting Company
Boris Pasternak makes his name with his third volume of poems, My Sister Life
Stalin devises the structure for a new federal state, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
Thomas Mann publishes a fragment of his Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
The Broadway show Ziegfeld Follies features an exciting new dance, the Charleston
John Galsworthy publishes his novels about the Forsyte family as a joint collection under the title The Forsyte Saga
The Irish Free State takes stringent measures against rebel terrorism, making possession even of a pistol a capital offence
After Michael Collins is killed in an ambush, William Cosgrave and Kevin O'Higgins emerge as leaders of the Irish Free State
The League of Nations gives France and Britain mandates to govern separate areas of the German colony of Cameroon
France and Britain are given a League of Nations mandate to govern separate areas of the German colony of Togoland
The German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler is appointed to the Berlin Philharmonic, and spends most of the rest of his life with the orchestra
The Teapot Dome scandal reveals corruption in the administration of US president Warren Harding
American-born poet T.S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land, an extremely influential poem in five fragmented sections
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk wins a long campaign to expel the Greeks, authorized by the victorious Allies to occupy western Turkey
Lloyd George loses his majority in the House of Commons when the Conservatives vote in a Carlton Club meeting to withdraw from his coalitiion
Mussolini gives orders for armed squads to congregate around Rome, in preparation for a march to seize power in the capital
German film director Ernst Lubitsch moves to Hollywood, at the request of Mary Pickford
The Italian king Victor Emmanuel III, alarmed at the prospect of a Fascist march on Rome, asks Mussolini to form a government
A triumphant Mussolini arrives in Rome on the overnight train from Milan to take up his appointment as prime minister
Columns of blackshirts, brought into Rome for the day, parade before Mussolini and the king
The nationalist government in Turkey abolishes the sultanate and the last Ottoman emperor, Mehmed VI, goes into exile
