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Baseball's World Series was broadcasted on the radio for the first time, the New York Giants beat the New York Yankee's.
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Congress passes the Fordney-McCumber Tariff, raising tariff duties to protect the American market for American manufactures. The tariff boosts the domestic economy of the Roaring Twenties -
President Warren G. Harding dies of a stroke in a San Francisco hotel room. Vice president Calvin Coolidge ascends to presidency.
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40 thousand Klu Klux Klansmen march on Washington, their white-hooded procession filling Pensylvania Avenue
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New York Yankee's star Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of the season, breaking his own record. Ruths record stood for 30 years.
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Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer, the first "talking" motion picture, premieres, marking the beginning of the end of the silent film era.
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Herbert Hoover, running on a slogan of "A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage," is elected to the presidency, crushing Catholic Democrat Al Smith to maintain Republican dominance of the Oval Office.
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Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie premieres, introducing the world to a new animated character—Mickey Mouse.
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The American stock market collapses, signaling the onset of the Great Depression.
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In the "Saint Valentine's Day Massacre," the single bloodiest incident in a decade-long turf war between rival Chicago mobsters fighting to control the lucrative bootlegging trade
