The Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000, a deal later blamed for an 86-year championship drought dubbed the 'Curse of the Bambino.'

The League of Nations came into existence, the first worldwide intergovernmental organization created to preserve peace after World War I.

Early long-distance radio experiments advanced transatlantic wireless communication, building on Marconi-era breakthroughs reshaping global communication.

Pope Benedict XV canonized Joan of Arc as a saint, nearly five centuries after the French Church that burned her as a heretic in 1431.

Karol Józef Wojtyła, the future Pope John Paul II, is born in the small Polish town of Wadowice.

U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified the 19th Amendment, granting American women the constitutional right to vote after decades of suffragist struggle.