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Congress ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the sale of alcohol
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Under heavy strain while on a speaking tour promoting the League of Nations, President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke
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Palmer raids begin launching intense government prosecution against "reds"
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Senate does not ratify treaty of Versallies and refuses to authorize U.S. participation in the League Of Nations
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Marcus Garvey convenes the first International Convention of the Negro Peoples
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The 19th amendment is ratified giving women the right to vote
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Warren G. Harding is elected to the presidency
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Congress passes immigration restrictions for first time
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immigrant Italian radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are put on trial for murder and eventually convicted
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The world series is broadcasted on radio forr the first time
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Congress passes the Fordney-McCumber Tariff, raising tariffs for forign goods
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President Warren G. Harding dies of stroke in his San Francisco hotel room, Calvin Coolage takes over as president
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the ford motor company exceeds $1 billion in profits
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Ku Klux Klan march on washington
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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed by electric chair.
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Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of the season, breaking his own record of 59
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15 nations sign pact outlawing war
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Herbert Hoover is elected president running the slogan "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage"
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The American stock market collapses, signaling the onset of the Great Depression.
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The single bloodiest incident in a decade-long turf war between rival Chicago mobsters fighting to control the bootlegging trade
