History of Watchmaking

John Harwood filed the first Swiss patent for a self-winding wristwatch with a central oscillating weight.

World history

Benito Mussolini’s fascist party won its first victory in the Italian legislative elections.
Death of Lenin. Stalin took power.

Art and Culture

Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Company merged to form the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production company.
The Czech-born, German-speaking writer Franz Kafka died of tuberculosis at a sanatorium in Kierling, near Vienna.
The American composer George Gershwin (1898-1937) wrote Rhapsody in Blue.