Japan agrees to withdraw troops from Sakhalin Island in exchange for oil and coal concessions. France and Germany agree not to go to war with each other again and to respect the demilitarized zone along the Rhineland. Poles attempt to take Ukraine from the Bolsheviks, themselves preoccupied with civil war. The conflict see-saws for about six months with little territory gained. Marshal Paul Von Hindenburg is elected German president.
Agreement is signed at an international arms control and trade convention in Geneva.
The Great Gatsby is published. The dispassionate examination of blandness and emptiness in the lives of tycoons and flappers was acclaimed by critics, but was not a popular success in its day. Mrs. Dalloway is published. The second and third acts, featuring some of his most famous escapes and an expos of Spiritualism, respectively, are vintage Houdini. But the hour-long first act, featuring fifteen tricks and illusions, is a real departure for him.