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February 6 - The Cheka is dissolved.
March 31 - The Hinterkaifeck axe murders take place. The perpetrator is never identified.
April 3 - Joseph Stalin becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, succeeding Vyacheslav Molotov. Despite this, Vladimir Lenin remains the de facto leader of the Soviet Union.
April 7 - The Teapot Dome scandal: The United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming.
June 22 - British field marshal Sir Henry Wilson is assassinated in London by the Irish Republican Army.
October 27 to 29 - Benito Mussolini and his National Fascist Party march on Rome, taking power in a coup d'état and establishing a fascist dictatorship.
November 11 - The Ottoman Empire collapses. End of the Armenian Genocide.
November 19 - Hiram Wesley Evans succeeds William Joseph Simmons as the national leader of the Ku Klux Klan.

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 * June 22 - British field marshal Sir Henry Wilson is assassinated in London by the [[Irish Republican Army]].
 * October 27 to 29 - [[Benito Mussolini]] and his [[National Fascist Party]] march on Rome, taking power in a ''coup d'état'' and establishing a [[fascist]] dictatorship.
-* November 11 - The Ottoman Empire collapses.
+* November 11 - The Ottoman Empire collapses. End of the [[Armenian Genocide]].
 * November 19 - [[Hiram Wesley Evans]] succeeds [[William Joseph Simmons]] as the national leader of the [[Ku Klux Klan]].