The Communist government of Russia (it was not yet the Soviet Union), published data that 1,766,118 people had been executed since the October Revolution.
This in the charming "real" Communist regime of Vladimir Lenin, not Stalin.
Added to that, of course, would be starvation victims and casualties of the Civil War.
In the United States, the President received well-wishers.
The 1922 Rose Bowl was played at Tournament Park, the last one to be played at that location. UC Berkeley played Washington & Jefferson College in a game that had no scores and ended in a tie, the only one to have ever ended with no score and in a tie.
Charlie West was the quarterback for Washington & Jefferson, the first black quarterback to play in the came.
Football was mostly a college sport at that time, and it interestingly integrated well in advance of baseball. West, in fact, was signed to play professional football in 1924, but decided to go to Harvard Medical School instead, and he became a physician.
He was also an Olympic quality athlete, but injuries precluded his participating in the 1924 Olympics in the track and field category.
The Dixie Classic was played on the same day.
Why on a Monday?
Well, January 1 was on a Sunday, which was very seriously observed.
The fact that we don't observe it as much, and in that fashion, also speaks poorly of us today.
Veronica Foster, Canada's' answer to Rosie the Riveter in the form of Ronnie the Bren Girl, was born. After the war, she'd go on to be a professional singer.
