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The National Association of the Moving Picture Industry announces its intention to censor U.S. movies.
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The United States, which never ratified the Versailles Treaty ending WWI, finally signs a peace treaty with Germany.
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The Reader's Digest begins publication in Pleasantville, NY.
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Warren G. Harding becomes the first president heard on radio.
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The U.S. transcontinental mail service begins.
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The U.S. Steel Corporation initiates an eight-hour workday.
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Congress passes the Snyder Act, which grants full U.S. citizenship to all American Indians born in the United States.
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The comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" by Harold Gray debuts in the New York Daily News
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The first issue of the New Yorker magazine hits newsstands.
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The Texas School Board prohibits the teaching of evolution.
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A hurricane hits Miami and Palm Beach, Florida killing almost 500 people and marking the beginning of the end of the Florida land boom.
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Magician Harry Houdini dies in Detroit as a result of a ruptured appendix.
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Henry Ford stops production of the Model T and begins producing the Model A.
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Babe Ruth hits his 60th homerun of the season.
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Scotch tape is first marketed by the 3-M company.
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Smokey the Bear is created.
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Black Thursday, the first day of the stock market crash sees the Dow jones average drop 12.8 percent as 13 million shares change hands.
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Black Tuesday sees panicked survivors dump 16 million shares on the stock market, wiping out $30 billion in paper value in one day; the Great Depression begins. Four months later, President Hoover says that the worst effects of the Depression will be over within 90 days and that "prosperity is just around the corner."
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Polls show that a majority of Americans favor the repeal of prohibition.
