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a new woman was born. She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. She was a flapper.
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A nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages.
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She was the first woman of African American descent, and the first of Native American descent, to hold a pilot license.
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Gatsby's book, This side of Paradise was published bringing him almost instant fame, The same year he marries his wife Zelda
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The book was published this year and Fitzgerald also settles down for his only child's birth, Frances Scott
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Medical researcher Frederick Banting and research assistant Charles save a boys life by using the first dose of insulin on a dying boy with diabetes.
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Fitzgerald's political satire, From Postman to President failed and he wrote his way out of debt with short stories
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The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France for the first time.
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Fitzgerald goes to France and starts writing the Great Gatsby
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In January 1925, a diphtheria epidemic spread through Nome, Alaska, killing the city’s children, a relay of approximately 20 men and their dog teams carried 300,000 units of serum the 674 miles from the train station at Nenana to Nome. Around 5:30 a.m. on February 2, 1925, Gunnar Kaasen and his team of dogs, led by a black Siberian Husky named Balto, finished the final leg of the relay and entered Nome with the serum, becoming instant, world-famous heroes
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Fitzgerald's book, the Great Gatsby gets published
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Fitzgerald tried to write his fourth book but has little luck
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the first publication of the children's book Winnie-the-Pooh
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Houdini dies from peritonitis caused after being punched in the gut
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Fitzgerald still has little luck with his fourth book and now hi wife Zelda is wanting to become a professional ballet dancer.
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Babe Ruth, a man known around the world as one of the greatest baseball players of all time, had done the impossible — hit 60 home runs in one season
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When The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, was released as a feature-length movie, it was the first movie that included dialogue and music on the filmstrip
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Walter Diemer happened upon just the right gum recipe to make the very first bubble gum, a special type of chewing gum that allows the chewer to make bubbles
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the new, talking Mickey Mouse was first shown to the world in the cartoon Steamboat Willie
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at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, this was the very first Academy Awards
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The Fitzgeralds return to France where Zelda's intense devotion to dance damages her health and marriage with Scott
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a severe economic downturn caused by an overly-confident, over-extended stock market and a drought that struck the South had begun which would last until 1939
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Clyde W. Tombaugh, an assistant at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, discovered Pluto
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Fitzgerald's wife, Zelda, has her first breakdown and is hospitalized at a clinic in Switzerland until September
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while his wife is in the clinic, Fitzgerald is living in different Switzerland hotels.
