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A man in Park City, Utah, dreams that he is living in the year 2023, and that in the future people go on strike because they only make $125/day, and eggs cost $10/dozen.

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A group of bandits on a mountain in northern Greece kidnap a traveling photographer and, wearing every piece of jewelry they’ve stolen, pose for a photograph. Then they release the photographer.

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A car crash in Washington, DC. The driver is uninjured.

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Soviet cartoon: “a professor was upset at his handsome colleague, so he took an x-ray of the man and is showing it to the ladies.”

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HAPPY 1924

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“How you think you look in flash photography versus how you really look.” Punch Magazine.

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Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini visits the Rome Zoo. He insists on being allowed into the lion cage to play with a cub. The zookeepers are in no position to deny the Premier’s request. The media films Mussolini for posterity.

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BREAKING NEWS PRESIDENT HARDING IS DEAD Urgent reports are coming in from San Francisco that, at the age of 57, Warren G. Harding has suddenly died of apoplexy while convalescing at the Palace Hotel. Details to follow as they become available.

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Adolf Hitler wins a 6,000,000 Mark settlement against a Berlin newspaper for slander. The paper alleged that Hitler is being funded by Jews and Bolsheviks. Not that 6,000,000 Marks means much anymore; as of this morning, the USD/Mark exchange rate was 21,000,000/$1.

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14-year-old Calvin Coolidge Jr., son of the new President, is not impressed by his newfound fame. In fact, he hasn’t quit his $3.50/day job picking tobacco. “I wouldn’t feel right trying to get by on my father’s success,” says Cal Jr. “I shall have my own career to work.”

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“Protect Yourself From This Menace,” from the IWW.

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“We ought to try it sometime,” from the Chicago Tribune

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In Wilmington, Delaware, a horse eats too many donuts and goes on a rampage, wrecking a bakery and terrifying townsfolk.

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In Chicago, 24-year-old Beulah Annan is arrested for shooting her lover. As she is taken away, she pleads that “we both reached for the gun.”

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The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg announces that it will triple the size its army due to fears of invasion from both France and Germany. There are 137 men in the Luxembourgish Army, but this radical and controversial 300% increase will bring the size of the army to over 400.

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A child who fancies himself “Boy Trotsky” is leading a group of Harlem youth on a bomb-making spree. Leo Granoff, age 11, has been arrested for distributing pamphlets and instructing fellow children on how to build and place bombs to start a revolution.

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A man in Rwanda with a traditional Amasunzu hairstyle.

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Breaking: as of 19:00 local time, Adolf Hitler and 600 SA stormtroopers have taken over Munich’s Bürgerbräukeller, a beer hall. Machine guns are set up around the perimeter and Hitler, with deputies Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess, are in control.

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“Manners at the Modern Dance,” from the Daily Mirror.

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A man named John S. Pleasant walks into a Los Angeles church and discovers a funeral occurring. “Oh, is there a funeral here?” he asks a preacher. “Yes,” replies the preacher. “Then you’d better make it two.” Pleasant promptly shot himself in the head. He died in the flowers.

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After a difficult night, America has a new President: In Vermont, Vice President Calvin Coolidge has taken the oath of office and he is now President of the United States. Immediately after his inauguration, Coolidge put on pajamas and went back to sleep.

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The Bulgarian Air Force is totally destroyed when its one and only plane crashes. Per the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, Bulgaria was allotted one plane for its postwar military. Now, Bulgaria’s air offensive capabilities are completely gone.

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This is another one of a series of predictions about the world 100 years from now, in 2023. Two weeks ago, some London schoolgirls had their own prophecies:

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London schoolgirls are asked what the world will be like in 100 years, in 2023. They claim that: - women will play tennis while men stay home with the kids - teachers won’t have to deal with dumb children; even toddlers will know the alphabet - women will be much more masculine

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“Do We All Look Alike?” from the Daily Mirror

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In Nashville, a 97-year-old Confederate veteran is killed in a knife fight with his 91-year-old roommate after debating whether to leave the window open at night.

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London schoolgirls are asked what the world will be like in 100 years, in 2023. They claim that: - women will play tennis while men stay home with the kids - teachers won’t have to deal with dumb children; even toddlers will know the alphabet - women will be much more masculine

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[Meta] 😉

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Russian violinist Paul Kochanski predicts that 100 years from now, in 2024, people will view jazz music as classical music is viewed today. Contrary to popular belief, Kochanski claims that jazz is a constructive, and not destructive force.

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The Brazilian Communist Party is founded in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro.

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The cargo ship SS Lesbian is launched by Ellerman Lines from Liverpool, UK. The freighter is named in honor of the inhabitants of the Greek island of Lesbos.

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Vladimir Lenin, architect of the Russian Revolution and Premier of the Soviet Union, falls into a brief coma and dies at his dacha in Gorki. He was 53.

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American Weekly Magazine envisions Manhattan 100 years from now, in 2022: glass towers, enclosed skywalks, moving sidewalks, electric trains and luxury airships.

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A Minneapolis 14-year-old pickets his own home, claiming that his father, an attorney, does not pay him a fair wage for doing his chores. The child walks around outside with a sign: “This house is unfair to labor.”

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A Maryland hen lays an egg with Woodrow Wilson’s face on it. The freak of nature is sent to Wilson as a novelty.

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In Washington, DC, President Coolidge throws out the first pitch to commence the 1924 Major League Baseball season. “I don’t even like baseball,” he tells his wife, Grace.

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British Member of Parliament Oswald Mosley switches his party affiliation to Labour.

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Pu Yi, the 17-year-old last Emperor of China, is reportedly so poor that he must sell Qing Dynasty relics to pay his debts.

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A 50-year-old Fort Worth man divorces his 14-year-old wife because she is “annoying.”

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Laddie Boy, President Harding’s beloved Airedale Dog, has been waiting at the White House windows for his master to return. Nobody is able to communicate to him that Harding has died.

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While working as a fry cook at his father’s restaurant in Pasadena, California, 16-year-old Lionel Sternberger accidentally drops a slice of American cheese on a hamburger patty and decides to serve it anyway.

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The miracle of insulin: scientists in Toronto go to the diabetes ward of a children’s hospital, where dozens are expecting to die from the once-fatal disease, and one-by-one inject them each with insulin. Within minutes, they begin to wake up, talk, and move around.

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German artist George Grosz is fined 6,000 Marks for displaying obscene drawings depicting the decadence of Berlin.

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In Berlin, little cigarette-vending stands are popping up that resemble actual cigarettes:

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Former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt assures America that there will never be war with Japan, on the basis that the Japanese people do not like tropical climates, so they will stick to their islands and not seek expansion.

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“The Family who got Mah Jongg for Christmas,” from the Daily Mirror.

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In August, German electrical engineer Charles Steinmetz had something to say about 2023, too:

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German electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz claims that by 2023, electricity will be doing all the hard work and people would not have to work for more than four hours a day. Steinmetz also says that cities will be totally free of pollution and litter in 2023.

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A Sámi man in Kautokeino, Norway wearing sunglasses and smoking a cigarette while holding the reins of his white reindeer.

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Nevertheless, the facts remain: she shot him in the back, then played records and drank cocktails for four hours while watching him slowly die.

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[Fourth-Wall Break] Alright, the moment you’ve all been waiting for… Tomorrow is the Beer Hall Putsch. It starts later in the day. It will be followed live over its two-day progress.

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Adolf Hitler gives an interview to the Chicago Tribune in which he says he will support auto tycoon Henry Ford (who is known for his anti-Semitism) if Ford runs for President of the United States in 1924.

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Two Soviet Army officers duel to the death for the affections of a woman. In the customary style of the Czarist time, they kissed one another then fired their pistols. [Painting: Ilya Repin, “The Duel.”]

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20-year-old Jennie Macgregor is arrested by Minneapolis Police for selling alcohol from a hip flask. But it’s not any ordinary hip flask - it’s the size of her torso!

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The last ruling descendant of Genghis Khan is dethroned: Emir Said Mir Mohammed Alim Khan of Uzbekistan was the last monarch descended directly from Genghis Khan, who died 700 years ago. Today, he was forcibly removed as the Red Army entered Bukhara.

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Florence Harding, wife of the suddenly-deceased President, outrightly refuses an autopsy for her husband and demands that his body he embalmed right away. Doctors comply with her requests. The body is whisked away. The President will not receive an autopsy.

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Snow falls in Washington, DC for a third consecutive day, which is very unusual for April. The citizens are not pleased.

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Scandal erupts in Paris as a man almost wins the Moulin Rouge beauty contest. The contestant, who was described as “dainty, queenly, sweetly shy, and girlish,” was about to be selected as winner when he sneezed so hard that nobody could mistake his manhood.

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Mourning the recent death of his wife, Prussian state executioner Paul Spaethe dresses in a tuxedo, lights 45 candles - one for each person he beheaded - and shoots himself dead with a revolver.

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German electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz claims that by 2023, electricity will be doing all the hard work and people would not have to work for more than four hours a day. Steinmetz also says that cities will be totally free of pollution and litter in 2023.

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Adolf Hitler, who has been in Landsberg Prison since the failure of his putsch attempt two weeks ago, is reported to be critically ill with a high fever. He may die. Hitler has been under guard by special veteran sergeants said to be immune to Hitler’s “magnetic personality.”

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An anti-vaccination activist in St. Louis is arrested for encouraging black Missourians not to get vaccinated. He declared to his listeners that vaccination “violates constitutional rights.” Policemen then arrested him and transported him to the hospital for forced vaccination.

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The US mass-deports 249 suspected Bolshevik and Anarchist radicals aboard “The Soviet Ark” (USS ‘Buford.’) Among them are Emma Goldman (pictured) a prolific anarchist. The radicals were held ‘incommunicado’ (secretly) and were not allowed to say farewell to friends and family.

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“Her First Cigarette,” from the Daily Mirror.

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A New York anthropologist predicts that 100 years from now, in 2023, men will be curling their hair to stay fashionable. The anthropologist bases his claim on cyclical fashion trends: 150 years ago men wore ponytails and queues, after all.

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[Fourth-Wall Break] Everyone, I just wanted to extend a massive thank you. I’ve been running this account for almost six years and I’ve covered 17,000 unique historical stories in that time, but this is the third most-viewed story in this project’s history! 🥉

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A man in Park City, Utah, dreams that he is living in the year 2023, and that in the future people go on strike because they only make $125/day, and eggs cost $10/dozen.

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As doctors work on President Harding’s body, nobody can reach Vice President Calvin Coolidge. He is believed to be vacationing in a house in Vermont without electricity or a telephone. A personal messenger has been awoken and dispatched to his door.

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Newly re-elected Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini poses for a portrait in Rome.

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“Male and Female Fashions: A History,” from The Daily Mirror.

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Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini dissolves the Chamber of Deputies and calls for free and fair elections.

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“How I Sit With Hubby,” from the Feather River Bulletin (Quincy, California):

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“The Trouble of Making Oneself Look Nice,” from the Daily Mirror.

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French airship Dixmude explodes and crashes into the Mediterranean during a thunderstorm. All 50 people on board are killed. It is the worst air disaster in history.

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The Soviet newspaper Pravda reports that Leon Trotsky is ill, which is generally code that a politician is about to be removed from office.

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A 17-year-old New York boy complains that his $15,000/year allowance is too low and he sues his father’s estate for $5,000 more. He complains that he practically lives in poverty; after all, the chauffeur costs $2,000/year and the dog’s food costs $420.

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President Calvin Coolidge wakes up after spending the first six hours of his presidency sound asleep. Reportedly, he tells his father “I dreamt I was President” - but he is. First thing, he is asked to come downstairs to reenact his 2 AM inauguration for the cameras.

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[Fourth-Wall Break] Time for the annual profile picture competition! I spent a lot of time on both these designs and I love them equally - now, it’s up to YOU to decide which will be the official face of 100YearsAgoLive all next year. Voting below. Poll will last 24 hours.

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The Casper, Wyoming Daily Tribune predicts that historians in 2024 looking back on 1924 will think that the US was governed by crazy, corrupt men; that corporations were crooks; and that the US’s leading industry was bootlegging. Surely, 1924 will look barbaric to 2024.

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After a period of declining health, former President Woodrow Wilson, who saw the country through The Great War and its aftermath from 1913 to 1921, dies at his home at 2340 S Street NW in Washington, DC at 11:15 AM local time. He was 67. The whole nation launches into mourning.

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Frenchmen are engaging in a revolutionary new recreation, attaching tiny wheels to their shoes and rolling around to hearts’ content.

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Dark day for dog lovers: today is “Dog License Day” in the UK, and every pet dog must have his own license. Those who cannot afford licenses, such as these children, are compelled to hug their hounds farewell and either surrender or destroy them.

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Cross-dressing game at a Bolshevik wedding in Petrograd.

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A delegation of Osage Indians visits the White House to ask President Coolidge to protect their oil lands in Oklahoma.

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An 82-year-old Greek monk dies without ever seeing a woman in his entire life.

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The number of motorists on the road has more than doubled in the past five years alone. The streets, which were originally built for horses and pedestrians, cannot cope with the additional traffic, and collisions such as this are common.

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[Fourth-Wall Break] Henry Kissinger - 1923-2023.

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Movie star Charlie Chaplin discreetly enters a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and comes in 17th place.

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Virginia passes the Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924, which allows the state to sterilize any person “afflicted with […] idiocy, imbecility, feeble-mindedness, or epilepsy.”

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Roc the Panther, the University of Pittsburgh athletic mascot, with his “handlers” at today’s game against Washington and Jefferson College at home. Yes, a man is in that costume, but for full realism, he is collared and leashed. He tramps around and growls like a jungle cat.

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How do America’s newest legislators prove that they’re manly enough for the job? They go out and chop wood for the Capitol stoves, of course. Here, freshman Senators Magnus Johnson (Farmer Labor Party - MN) and Lynn Frazier (R-ND) chop wood to prove themselves worthy.

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In Moscow, a troika (three-person committee) is chosen to lead the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death two days ago. The men are Grigoriy Zinoviev; Lev Kamenev; and Joseph Stalin.

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Auto magnate Henry Ford receives Kurt Lüdecke, representative for Adolf Hitler, at home in Dearborn, Michigan. Ford gives an undisclosed amount of money to the Nazi Party.

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A Vancouver man proposes marriage to his landlady but when she refuses, he lights a stick of dynamite between his teeth and blows his head up.

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As the year draws to a close, let’s look back at the top 10 most-viewed stories of 1923:

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“Reckless Motorists and Vague Pedestrians,” from the Daily Mirror.

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A lesbian couple in partial drag at a wedding in Budapest, Hungary.

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The Republic of Austria diplomatically recognizes the Soviet Union.

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Former US President Woodrow Wilson is reported to be seriously ill with a digestive disorder. Here is his most-recent photo, when he was taken out for a birthday drive four weeks ago:

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[Fourth-Wall Break] Every year, I try to dress up for Halloween as some historical figure, mainly one from 100 years ago. This year, I dressed up as Bonar Law… …throat cancer and all.

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Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 23, 1922 to May 20, 1923, dies of throat cancer. He was 65.

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On Christmas Day, a Kwakwaka’wakw Nation feast in Alert Bay, British Columbia ends in the arrests of the chief and 45 others by the B.C. Provincial Police, who bring in the detained for participating in a potlach dinner, which is illegal in British Columbia.

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In a speech to the Turkish National Assembly, Premier Mustafa Kemal Atatürk says “the religion of Islam will be elevated if it ceases to be a political instrument.” He then announces that he will disband the caliphate.

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Soviet Premier Vladimir Lenin, who is wheelchair-bound after a series of strokes, taking a winter walk with his nurse at his estate in Gorki.

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