Video: 'Warren G. Harding: America's 29th President' (Aug. 9, 1923, at 13:26)
(Thursday, August 9, 1923, 12:40 p.m. EST) — Traveling slowly through long lines of home folks, the funeral train carrying the body of President Warren G. Harding arrived today in Marion, Ohio. The body will lay in state at the home of the late president’s father before burial tomorrow.
Video: 'Pancho Villa: Clip from Documentary'
(Friday, July 20, 1923) — Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa was assassinated today while visiting Parral. He was 45.
Video: 'RMS Laconia: "Her Story"'
(Friday, March 30, 1923) — The Cunard liner RMS Laconia became the first passenger ship to circle the globe as it arrived today in New York. The voyage lasted 130 days and called at 22 ports.
Video: 'A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor (1923)'
(Saturday, March 12, 1923) — Inventor Lee De Forest demonstrated his sound-on-movie-film system, called “Phonofilm,” to the press today in New York.
Video: '1923 - TIME Magazine'
(Saturday, March 3, 1923) — Time magazine, a weekly news magazine published in New York City and founded by Briton Hadden and Henry R. Luce, made its debut today.
Video: 'World Series Champions: Baseball's Golden Era' (1922 World Series at 0:22)
(Sunday, October 8, 1922) — The New York Giants won the 1922 World Series today, beating the New York Yankees 5-3 at at Polo Grounds (IV) in Manhattan, New York, in the fifth and deciding game (one game ended in a tie). It was the Giants’ third World Series win.
Video: 'Alexander Graham Bell'
(Wednesday, August 2, 1922, 2:00 a.m. local time) — Alexander Graham Bell, generally regarded as the inventor of the telephone, died of complications arising from diabetes today at his private estate, Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, Canada, at age 75.
Video: 'The Madness From Within - The Irish Civil War Part 2' (June 28, 1922, at 9:35)
(Wednesday, June 28, 1922) — The Irish Civil War began today with the Battle of Dublin between rival nationalists over the Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the Irish Free State. The conflict lasted nearly a year, resulting in defeat for anti-treaty forces.
Video: Gandhi at a public meeting in 1922
(Saturday, March 18, 1922) — Mohandas K. Gandhi, India’s 52-year-old non-co-operationist leader, was sentenced to six years in prison today in Armedabad for publishing seditious materials.
(Saturday, March 4, 1922) — Nosferatu, an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, with names and other details changed because the studio could not obtain the rights to the novel, opened today in Berlin.
Directed by F. W. Murnau, the classic German Expressionist horror film stars Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok.
