The Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales Corporation, founded by Joe Brandt and Harry and Jack Cohn, changes their company's name to Columbia Pictures.
Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster pool together $8,000 to create Simon & Schuster, a company that publishes crossword puzzles.
farmer James Cummings and draftsman J. Earl McLeod filed U.S. patent #1,522,378 for an "Attachment for Tractors". This machine/attachment combo would later be called a "bulldozer"
The first of two life-sized statues of Tutankhamen is removed from the pharaoh's tomb, soon to be transferred to a museum in Cairo.
The Little Napoleon is released today in Germany. Marlene Dietrich makes her film debut in a small role as a maid.
Hachikō, the faithful dog of Shibuya Station, is born today.
Roy and Walt Disney of the newly-formed Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio debut their newest one-reel silent film Alice's Wonderland to potential film distributors.
The first World Series game ever held at Yankee Stadium is played today, between the Yankees and the New York Giants. Giants take Game 1 5-4.
Fortune Teller, the newest cartoon in the Out of the Inkwell series, is released.
Hyperinflation in Germany continues to wreak havoc. The price of eggs has reached 4 billion Marks, and the price of bread is 670 million Marks.
The silent film Haldane of the Secret Service is released. Haldane is played by Harry Houdini, and this movie would be the end of his acting and directing career.
Three Ages starring Buster Keaton is released. This is the first film in which Keaton is the writer, director, producer, and leading role.
The USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), the first of four US Navy airships, flying over the White House.
Fashion of the day: wide brimmed hat, setting off the lines of the wide collar on the wrap over cost, which is decorated with embroidery. Designed by Blanche Lebouvier.
Testing a bulletproof vest in Washington, DC.
The Daring Years, a silent melodrama starring Mildred Harris, Clara Bow, and Charles Emmett Mack, is released.
Sailors from the Massachusetts Nautical School aboard the USS Nantucket pose with their pets.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame starring Lon Chaney premiers today at Carnegie Hall in New York City
Balloons, the newest film in the Out of the Inkwell series, is released.
A washout caused by heavy rains in Indiana derail a train. One dead, four injured.
