100 Years Ago Today

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25h February 1922

Funeral is held for the servicemen who lost their lives in the crash of the U.S. Army Air Service airship Roma.


French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru, found guilty of murdering 11 victims (the real total is likely higher), is executed by guillotine.


The Bridge, Athlone, Ireland. Very dramatic W.D. Hogan shot of soldiers marching across the bridge in Athlone for the handover of Custume Barracks - just one of the many barracks around the country to move from British to Irish control in 1922.


Ship Losses:

Lowell F. Parks (United Kingdom) The schooner was abandoned and set afire in the Atlantic Ocean.

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26th February 1922

Léon Levavasseur, a French powerplant engineer and aircraft designer who invented the V8 engine, has passed away.


Luigi Facta becomes the new Prime Minister of Italy (he is the last Italian PM before Benito Mussolini comes to power)

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27th February 1922

Women using various exercise machines in the gymnasium of the ocean liner RMS Homeric, including a mechanical horse. RMS Homeric, a former German ship given to the UK as reparations, is currently on its maiden voyage to New York.


Ship Losses:

Rothenburg (Germany) The cargo ship struck a submerged object in the Kattegat and sank. Her crew survived. She was refloated on 18 April.
Valerie (United Kingdom) The schooner sprang a leak and sank off the Cape Verde Islands, Portugal. Her crew were rescued by Fernando ( Portugal).

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28th February 1922

Princess Mary, daughter of King George V of Britain, marries Henry Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles, at Westminster Abbey.




Ship Losses:

Danehurst (United Kingdom) The salvage vessel sank at Liverpool, Lancashire.
Roma (United Kingdom) The cargo ship came ashore in Loch Eriboll and was wrecked.

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1st March 1922

Artur Bernardes is elected as the new President of Brazil in a contested election (his presidency will be marked by military revolts)


Ship Losses:

Minerva (Norway) The whaler was wrecked off the South Shetland Islands.
Pembsco (United Kingdom) The cargo ship departed Burry Port, Glamorgan for Dublin, Ireland. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Irish Sea with the loss of all hands.

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2nd March 1922

Norwegian freighter SS Grøntoft flounders in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of its 25 crew.


William M. Gaines, comics publisher and creator of Mad magazine, is born in Brooklyn.


Ship Losses:

Eider (United Kingdom) The coaster sprang a leak and foundered in the English Channel off Berry Head, Devon. All ten crew were rescued by the Brixham Lifeboat.
Grøntoft Norway The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean (47°48′N 42°24′W) with the loss of all twenty five crew.

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3rd March 1922

Ship Losses:

Lockwood (United Kingdom) The coaster ran aground in the River Witham at Boston, Lincolnshire. She was refloated on 24 June.

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4th March 1922

Strike of Chinese seamen in Hong Kong and Canton (Guangzhou) ends, as workers win wage increases of 15-30%. Demonstrating strikers in Hong Kong.


At the age of 61, famous sharpshooter and entertainer Annie Oakley shot a record 98 out of 100 clay targets from a distance of 16 yards.


Ship Losses:

Christine (France) The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 20 nautical miles (37 km) south by west of the Wolf Rock, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by War Nawab ( United Kingdom).

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7th March 1922

U.S. Navy officials with a model of the USS Langley, which is currently being converted from a collier to the U.S. navy’s first aircraft carrier.


Trial begins for Nakaoka Konichi, who assassinated Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi last November.


Ship Losses:

Cheshire (United Kingdom) The coaster passed The Lizard, Cornwall bound for Fécamp, Seine-Inférieure, France. No further trace, presumed foundered in the English Channel with the loss of all hands.
West Munham (United States) The Design 1013 cargo ship came ashore on Heligoland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She was abandoned by her crew on 8 March.

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8th March 1922

March 8th 1922. Pittsburgh Bandit in Woman's Garb Is Captured. Joseph Lindsay, as he is and as he was, who has been taken by the Pittsburgh police after an attempted holdup of a bank messenger. Lindsay, fully garbed as a woman, used an ammonia pistol to blind the messenger.


Ship Losses:

HMS Laertes (Royal Navy) The Laforey-class destroyer came ashore at Newhaven, Sussex after her tow parted. She was later refloated and arrived at Dover on 13 March for scrapping.
Swanston (United Kingdom) The cargo ship was driven ashore on Queen Anne's Rocks, Cattewater, Plymouth, Devon and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued.

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9th March 1922

An Army private comes to attention and salutes as he hears the Star Spangled Banner sent wireless over a Marvel receiving radio set with a horn attached to throw the sound, New York.

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11th March 1922

Over a hundred people are killed in and around Johannesburg, as South African government troops with bombers and tanks retaliate against dug-in rebelling miners.


Ship Losses:

Brackenholm (United Kingdom) The schooner departed Ramsey, Isle of Man for Truro, Cornwall. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.
Holdal II (United States) The halibut-fishing vessel struck a rock and sank at the entrance to a harbor on the coast of Bushy Island (56°16′N 132°59′W) in Southeast Alaska.

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13th March 1922

Irish revolutionary Michael Collins addresses a crowd at a demonstration for the Irish Free State.


Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College (today the Rashtriya Indian Military College) is inaugurated by Edward, Prince of Wales, during his tour of British India.


Ship Losses:

Gauntlet (United Kingdom) The tug ran aground and sank at Newhaven, Sussex.
Myriophiton (Greece) The cargo ship was wrecked at Soukhoum, Soviet Union.

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14th March 1922

Ship Losses:

Rosario (United States) The 24-gross register ton, 40.6-foot (12.4 m) fishing vessel dragged her anchor during a storm and was wrecked in Katlian Bay (57°09′N 135°23′W) opposite Kruzof Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska near Sitka, Territory of Alaska. Her crew of five survived.
Tajima Maru (Japan) The cargo ship ran aground at Tsingtao, China. She was refloated on 19 March.

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15th March 1922

Éamon de Valera founds the Cumann na Poblachta political party, composed of Sinn Fein members who oppose the Anglo-Irish Treaty.