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Events relating to north america
Canadian physiologists Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin from the pancreas for the treatment of diabetes
Henry Luce has an immediate success with a new magazine, calling it simply Time
Bessie Smith has a big hit with her first record, Downhearted Blues, selling two million copies within a year
Marcel Duchamp completes his large glass construction The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even
Wallace Stevens' first collection, Harmonium, sells 100 copies
Robert Frost publishes a new collection of poems, New Hampshire
The US poet e.e. cummings publishes his first collection, Tulips and Chimneys
US poet Edna St Vincent Millay publishes The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems
Warren Harding dies little more than half way through his term of office as US president
Warren Harding is succeeded as US president by his vice-president, Calvin Coolidge
US dramatist Elmer Rice establishes his reputation with The Adding Machine, an expressionistic drama about the machine age
Bernard Shaw's play Saint Joan has its world premiere in New York
George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue has its first performance, at the Aeolian Hall in New York
Clarence Birdseye, having eaten frozen fish in the Arctic, launches Birdseye Seafoods in New York
Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller wins three Olympic gold medals in the Paris games, together with a bronze in water polo
US astronomer Edwin Hubble proves that the nebula Andromeda is vastly further away than other stars and can only be a separate galaxy
The Marx Brothers (at this stage Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Gummo) make their Broadway debut with the show I'll Say She Is
US poet Robinson Jeffers publishes his first successful collection, Tamar and Other Poems
Erich von Stroheim completes Greed, his epic silent film of ferociously competitive acquisition in turn-of-the-century San Francisco
7-year-old Yehudi Menuhin gives his first professional recital, playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in San Francisco
US poet E.A. Robinson publishes a narrative poem, The Man Who Died Twice, about the dissipation of artistic talent
Calvin Coolidge is elected US president in his own right, winning by a wide margin over Democrat John W. Davis
Charlie Chaplin makes The Gold Rush, involving his little tramp in the horrors of wintry Alaska
Trumpeter Louis Armstrong, in Chicago, forms the Hot Five with his wife on piano and three New Orleans musicians on trombone, clarinet and guitar
Harold Ross founds The New Yorker as a humorous weekly, and remains in charge of it until his death in 1951
