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Palmer Raids were a series of law enforcement raids directed towards leftist radicals and anarchists in 1920
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Eight members in the Chicago White Sox are accused of intentionally losing games, specifically the 1919 World Series for money
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Women gained the right to vote through the nineteenth amendment after years of fighting for suffrage
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A limit was put on the amount of immigrants able to come into our country.
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A mob of white citizens attacked residents and businesses in the African American community resulting in the deaths of 176 people in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Baseball legend Babe Ruth breaks the career home-run record
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A peace treaty between the US and Germany was signed in Berlin
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The memorial was built to honor our sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln.
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King Tut's tomb is found by Howard Carter almost fully intact
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The first issue of Time Magazine is released by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden
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Louis Armstrong made his first recordings with King Oliver
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Two US army planes called the Chicago and New Orleans complete the first round the world trip in 175 days
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The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was held in New York, stretching from Broadway to Seventh Avenue
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Calvin Coolidge was the first president of the United States to have his inauguration broadcasted on the radio
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The famous novel "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is published
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The Scopes Monkey Trial was an American legal case in which a substitute teacher, John T Scopes is brought to court for teaching human evolution in violation of Tennessee's Butler Act
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Rudolph Valentino was a well known Italian actor, a pop icon, and a sex symbol of the 1920's. He died prematurely at 31 years old
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Famous actor and escape artist, Harry Houdini dies at the age of fifty two
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The first transatlantic phone call occurs in a call from New York to London
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Fifteen inches of rain fell in 18 hours causing the Mississippi River to break out of it's levee system at 145 locations
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Construction of the mountain dedicated to US presidents begins
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Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic
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Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance in a cartoon short called "Steamboat Willie"
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Seven people in a rival gang of Al Capone's, Bug Moran's gang are shot and killed. Although it is very likely that Al Capone ordered this attack, he was never held accountable for it
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The stock market crashed causing an economic depression also known as the "Great Depression"
