100 Years ago.... Climbers reach 26,000 feet up Everest June 12. 1922 A British Everest expedition has climbed to within 3.200 feet of...

100 Years ago.... IRA shoot British Army Chief in London June 22, 1922 Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, the former chief of the Imperial...

100 Years ago.... The problem of how to make Russia pay May 19, 1922 The Allies, meeting in Genoa, took time off from wrangling over...

100 Years ago... South are victorious in Chinese civil war May 5, 1922 The rebel Chinese army of Manchuria, commanded by General Chang...

100 Years ago... Ross is hanged for Gun Alley murder April 24, 1922 Collin Campbell Ross was hanged at Melbourne jail today, protesting...

100 Years ago.... Death of airman Sir Ross Smith April 13, 1922 Famous Australian aviator Sir Ross Smith and his crew member Lieutenant J...

100 Years ago.... March 11, 1922 Martial law to quell gold-mine rioting Martial law was proclaimed in Johannesburg and the Rand...

100 Years ago.... Gandhi sentenced to jail Mar 18, 1922 Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian nationalist leader, pleaded guilty to three charges of...

100 years ago.... Reader's Digest is born under a bar Feb 5, 1922 DeWitt Wallace, the son of a US Presbyterian minister, today put out...

100 Years ago.... Edith Cowan denies neglect of family Feb 9, 1922 When told by someone ill-disposed to women politicians that he and his...

100 Years ago.... Beaurepaire hero of shark attack rescue Feb 4, 1922 A young swimmer punched and kicked a huge shark which mauled him,...

100 Years ago.... Shackleton, polar explorer, dies Jan 5, 1922 Sir Ernest Shackleton, regarded as many as the finest explorer of his age,...

100 Years ago.... Irish Parliament votes to accept treaty Jan 21, 1922 After a debate of fiery words and high drama, the Dail Eireann,...

100 Years ago.... DISCOVERY: Insulin gives diabetics hope Dec 29, 1921 Medical history was made this year with the isolation of insulin,...

100 Years ago.... Irish offered Free State Dec 7, 1921 Shortly after midnight yesterday, British and Irish negotiations finally signed an...

100 Years ago.... Mussolini becomoes "Il Duce" of Fascists Nov 7, 1921 Benito Mussolini, the blacksmith's son from poverty-stricken...

100 Years ago.... Rioting as Gandhi burns foreign cloth Nov 17, 1921 The streets of Bombay were today lined with vast crowds, all...

100 Years ago.... Emperor Karl's comeback fails Oct 25, 1921 Undeterred by the utter failure of the theatrical coup last Easter, the...

100 Years ago.... Females quake at Valentino's Sheik Oct 31, 1921 The new sensation of the cinema is Rudolf Valentino of the flashing...

100 Years ago.... World's most famous tramp comes home Sept 9, 1921 The little tramp returned to the city of his birth today - to be...