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A computer company
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Congress ratified the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the manufacturing, transportation and sale of alcohol within the United States
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under the leadership of the Attorney General Alexander M. Palmer, sought to arrest and/or deport all radicals and anarchists living in the United States.
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Result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first international organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.
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“the rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex,” passed both houses of Congress and was sent to the states for ratification.
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a world pioneer of commercial radio broadcasting. Transmitting with a power of 100 watts on a wavelength of 360 meters, KDKA began scheduled programming with the Harding-Cox Presidential election returns on November 2, 1920.
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29th President of the United States from 1921 until his death in 1923, a member of the Republican Party.
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The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti for the South Braintree murders was held in Dedham, Massachusetts
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Reader's Digest is an American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, it is now headquartered in Midtown Manhattan.
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Fall secretly granted to Harry F. Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company exclusive rights to the Teapot Dome
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New stadium first game
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he died
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American politician and the 30th President of the United States. A Republican lawyer from New England, born in Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor.
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Leaded a failed attempt to overthrow German Government
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During the Harding administration, a stop-gap immigration measure was passed by Congress
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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.
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musical composition by American composer George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects
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The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922.
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autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany.
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John Thomas Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
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poems
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she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
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Created a 40 hour work week
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Charles Lindbergh became the first person to make a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, soaring from New York to Paris and capturing the imaginations of people all over the world.
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The flood inundated 16 million acres of land, displacing nearly 700,000 people in states from Illinois to Louisiana. In Vicksburg, Mississippi, the river swelled to 80 miles wide.
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Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of the 1927 season and with it sets a record that would stand for 34 years.
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The tunnel, which runs under the Hudson River between New York City and Jersey City, New Jersey, had opened to traffic the week before, at the stroke of midnight on November 13.
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the first commercially successful full-length feature film with sound, debuts at the Blue Mouse Theater at 1421 5th Avenue in Seattle.
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discovered penicillin, made from the Penicillium notatum mold, but he did not receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery until 1945.
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First person to fly the globe
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Mickey Mouse made his movie debut in Steamboat Willie, one of the earliest animated cartoons. This seven-minute film, directed by Walt Disney, was the first to combine animation technology with synchronized sound.
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Valentine's Day murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang. The men were gathered at a Lincoln Park garage on the morning of Valentine's Day, where they were made to line up against a wall and shot by four unknown assailants.
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American engineer, businessman and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression.
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when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.
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Allowed too many immigrants to enter so the island had to be closed
