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Events

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 Russian Communist Party, succeeding Vyacheslav Molotov.
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.
June 28 - Beginning of the Irish Civil War.
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.
December 29 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), better known as the Soviet Union, is formally created following the signing of the Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 15 sovereign states (Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan) comprise the USSR, with all of them ultimately under the rule of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, formerly known as the Russian Communist Party.
Unknown - End of the Red Terror.

Births

Villain births

January 9 - Ahmed Sékou Touré
January 17 - Luis Echeverría
April 20 - Angelo La Barbera
May 14 - Franjo Tuđman
August 6 - Dan Walker
September 17 - Agostinho Neto

Victim births

March 1 - Yitzhak Rabin
May 15 - Veleslav Wahl
Unknown - Billy Gaffney

Deaths

Villain deaths

February 25 - Henri Désiré Landru
June 12 - Wolfgang Kapp
July 21 - Djemal Pasha
August 4 - Enver Pasha
August 11 - Umberto Valenti

Victim deaths

June 22 - Sir Henry Wilson

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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]].
+* April 3 - [[Joseph Stalin]] becomes General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Russian Communist Party]], succeeding [[Vyacheslav Molotov]].
 * 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]].
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 * 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]].
-* December 29 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), better known as the Soviet Union, is formally created following the signing of the Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 15 sovereign states (Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan) comprise the USSR, with all of them ultimately under the rule of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]].
+* December 29 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), better known as the Soviet Union, is formally created following the signing of the Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 15 sovereign states (Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan) comprise the USSR, with all of them ultimately under the rule of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]], formerly known as the Russian Communist Party.
 * Unknown - End of the [[Red Terror]].