Germany signs the Pact of Paris outlawing war.

5 Aug.

Millicent Garrett Fawcett, British suffragist organizer, dies at age eighty-two.

19 Aug.

Sergey Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario in Paris, dies at age fifty-seven.

22 Aug.

A wave of Arab violence against Jews in the British mandate of Palestine kills hundreds.

20 Oct.

The new state of Tadzhikistan joins the U.S.S.R.

6 Nov.

Prince Maximilian, Germany's first republican chancellor, dies at age sixty-two.

17 Nov.

Moderate leader Nikolay Bukharin is expelled by the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. Stalin is now clearly dictator of the U.S.S.R.

24 Nov.

Georges Clemenceau, former premier of France, dies.

5 Dec.

U.S. Marines put down a revolt against American control in Haiti.

17 Dec.

Gen. Gomes da Costa, former dictator of Portugal, dies in exile.

21 Dec.

Seventy are arrested in Mexico after the discovery of a plot to assassinate public officials...