event of the 1920s

  • 19

    19

    19 amendment prevents the government from denieing the citizens the right to vote because of thier gender
  • votes

    votes

    November 2: First Radio broadcast; President Warren Harding elected; women get their first vote
  • unknown

    unknown

    November 11: Unknown soldier of World War I buried
  • egypt

    egypt

    November 26: Archaeologist Howard Carter finds tomb of Tutankhamen near Luxor, Egypt
  • harding

    harding

    August 2: President Harding dies; in san francisco on a stroke around 7:30pm
  • cool

    cool

    August 3: Vice President Calvin Coolidge is sworn into office as president
  • election

    election

    February 3: Former President Woodrow Wilson dies; November 4: Calvin Coolidge is elected President
  • tv

    tv

    October 2: Scottish inventor John Baird invents the first form of a television
  • movies

    movies

    First talking movie, The Jazz Singer released; May 20: Spirit of St. Louis and pilot Charles Lindbergh land in Paris
  • mold

    mold

    penicillin discovered In 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming observed that colonies of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus could be destroyed by the mold Penicillium notatum
  • gum

    gum

    bubble gum invented
  • mouse

    mouse

    September 19: First Mickey Mouse talking film, Steamboat Willie, released by Walt Disney;
  • hoover

    hoover

    November 6: Herbert Hoover elected President
  • crash

    crash

    • October 24: Start of the Stock Market Crash