Howard Carter reopened the sealed burial chamber of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, allowing journalists their first close look at the treasures.

Vladimir Lenin died of a massive stroke at 53, triggering a power struggle that would deliver the Soviet Union into Joseph Stalin's hands.

Chamonix, France hosted the inaugural Winter Olympic Games, launching a new international tradition of competitive winter sport.

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George Herbert Walker Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, later becoming a naval aviator, CIA director, and the 41st US President.

A Munich court acquitted General Erich Ludendorff of treason for his role in the failed Beer Hall Putsch, while Hitler drew a lenient five-year term.

Wyoming voters elected Nellie Tayloe Ross the first female governor in United States history, filling the term of her late husband and breaking a political barrier.