1920-1929

By lharris16

  • The League of Nations is established with the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles

  • The first performance of the play, Beyond the Horizon

    The play by Eugene O'Neill would win the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes.
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  • The American Professional Football League is formed in 1920

    with Jim Thorpe as its president and eleven teams. It would change its name to the National Football League in 1922.

  • A Congressional resolution

    by both houses is signed by President Warren G. Harding, declaring peace in World War I hostilities with Germany, Austria, and Hungary. The treaties would be executed one month later.

  • The first Miss America pageant is held in Atlantic City,

    New Jersey. It is won by Margaret Gorman for the title of the Golden Mermaid trophy, later dubbed Miss America.

  • The Limitation on Armaments Congress convenes in Washington, D.C.

  • Reader's Digest is founded and the first issue published by Dewitt and Lila Wallace

  • Time Magazine is published for the first time.

  • Warner Brothers Pictures is incorporated.

  • The IBM corporation is founded.

  • The Grand Ole Opry transmits its first radio broadcast.

  • The NBC Radio Network is formed

    by Westinghouse, General Electric, and RCA, opening with twenty-four stations.

  • The Great Mississippi Flood occurs, affecting over 700,000.

  • Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Future Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King is born

    in his grandfather's house in Atlanta, Georgia.

  • The United States Congress approves the construction of Boulder

    later named Hoover Dam.