100 Years Ago Today

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21st December 1921

French Marshal Foch and former Premier Viviani returns to Paris after their visit to the United States.


Groundbreaking ceremony is held for the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as a memorial to veterans of the Great War.


Ship Losses:

Alda (Norway) The schooner was crushed in pack ice and sank at Burnt Church, New Brunswick, Canada.[337]
Mary Annie (United Kingdom) The cargo ship foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Wigbert ( Germany).

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23rd December 1921

Colonel General Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German commander at the Siege of Antwerp and General Governor of occupied Poland during the Great War, has passed away.

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27th December 1921

Prince Edward inspects veterans of the Indian Army.


Ship Losses:

Yannakis (Greece) The cargo ship was stranded on the eastern side of Praa Sands, Cornwall, United Kingdom. She was driven further ashore by successive gales. Yannakis was refloated in January 1922 and towed to Penzance by the salvage vessels The Lady and Greencastle (both United Kingdom).

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29th December 1921

W. L. Mackenzie King becomes the 10th Prime Minister of Canada following the Liberal Party victory in the Canadian federal elections earlier this month.


The U.S. begins minting the “Peace dollar,” a silver coin commemorating peace after the Great War.


De-commissioned battleship HMS Prince George is wrecked off the coast of Camperduin, Netherlands while being towed to Germany for scrapping.


Ship Losses:

NRP Covado and NRP Zazere (Portuguese Navy) The Zezere-class torpedo boats were wrecked on Cape Bon while being delivered to Portugal from Austria-Hungary as war reparations.
Grubstake (United States) The 14-gross register ton motor vessel was ran aground 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) south of Smugglers Cove (55°37′N 131°53′W) on Revillagigedo Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. The two people on board survived. She broke up on 29 December.
Karitane (United Kingdom) The cargo ship ran aground on Deal Island, Tasmania, Australia and was wrecked.

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31st December 1921

Japanese marines manning a deck gun.


Ship Losses:

Record Reign (United Kingdom) The schooner was wrecked in the Nieuwe Diep, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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1st January 1922

Ship Losses:

Freddysmith (United Kingdom) The cargo ship ran aground at Gaasehagen, Denmark. She was refloated on 5 January.

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2nd January 1922

Ship Losses:

Reine des Mers (France) The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. (44°50′N 51°29′W) with the loss of her captain. Survivors were rescued by Hudson ( United States).
Storebelt (Denmark) The cargo ship lost her propeller and consequently came ashore at Hirtshals. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus.

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5th January 1922

Edward, Prince of Wales (left), prepares for a wild boar hunt at Jodhpur, India. The man on the right holds steel-tipped bamboo lances for the hunt.


Explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton has passed away. He suffered a heart attack on South Georgia Island while heading to Antarctica for the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition.


Ship Losses:

Active (United Kingdom) The coaster foundered in the Irish Sea between the Blackwater and Lucifer Lightships (both United Kingdom). Her crew survived.
Canterbury Hill (United Kingdom) The cargo ship capsized and sank in the bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by Branstone ( United Kingdom).

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8th January 1922

Prince Tokugawa Iesato, a Japanese diplomat and son of the last Tokugawa shogun of Japan, in Washington, D.C. for the Washington Naval Conference.


Ship Losses:

Atilla (Germany) The cargo ship sank off Rügen, Vorpommern

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Not today but a few days ago Mr Hugo Broch celebrated his 100th birthday at january 6th, 2021. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Broch)

Accidentally stumbled about this, there is even a video where he was invited to fly in a two-seater Spitfire at the youthful age of 95

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10th January 1922

German delegation, led by Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau (center with cane), arrives in Paris to discuss reparation payments with the Allied Powers in Cannes.


Ōkuma Shigenobu, former Prime Minister of Japan during the start of the Great War, has passed away.

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11th January 1922

Ship Losses:

Inaho Maru (Japan) The cargo ship came ashore on Rossel Island and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued by Meiko Maru ( Japan).

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12th January 1922

The British government announces an amnesty for Irish political prisoners following the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.


French Prime Minister Astride Briand resigns for being unable to resolve German intransigence towards reparation payments.


Ship Losses:

C. C. Mengel, Jr. (United States) The schooner came ashore on Morant Cays, Jamaica and was wrecked.
Tidal (United Kingdom) The coaster foundered in the North Sea 10 nautical miles (19 km) off Lowestoft, Suffolk. All fifteen people on board were rescued by Dalton ( United Kingdom).

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13th January 1922

Ship Losses:

Italica (Spain) The cargo ship struck the Beduidos Rocks, off Vigo and foundered.

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15th January 1922

The Leipzig war crimes trials, held as part of the Versailles Treaty to prosecute German war criminals, come to an end, as an Allied commission deems it too lenient and ineffective.


Raymond Poincaré becomes the new Prime Minister of France. He takes a hardline stance on Germany’s intransigence towards making reparations payments.