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Under heavy strain while on a speaking tour promoting the League of Nations, President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke, leaving him largely incapacitated for the final 18 months of his term. He dies on February 3, 1924.
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Baseball's World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time; the New York Giants defeat the New York Yankees, five games to three.
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The market capitalization of Ford Motor Company exceeds $1 Billion. Ford is one of the few companies to survive the Great Depression.
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Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie premiers,introducing the world to a new animated Mickey Mouse. Steamboat Willie was one of the first sound cartoons.
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In the "Saint Valentines Day Massacre" the single bloodiest incident in a decade-long turf war between Chicago mobsters fighting to control the lucrative bootlegging trade, members of Al Capone's gang murder six followers of rival Bugs Moran.
