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F Scott Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre
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The American Professional Football League is formed in 1920 with Jim Thorpe as its president and eleven teams
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His first short story collection Flappers and Philosophers was published
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November 1920 - A landslide victory for Warren G. Harding in both the Electoral College and popular vote returns the Republican Party to the White House
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The first Miss America pageant is held in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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The Fitzgeralds' first and only child is born, a daughter named Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald.
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Reader's Digest is founded and the first issue published by Dewitt and Lila Wallace
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The Beautiful and Damned is published
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The Lincoln Memorial, located on the opposite end of the National Mall from the Capitol building, is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
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Time Magazine is published for the first time.
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President Warren G. Harding dies in office after becoming ill following a trip to Alaska
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The IBM corporation is founded.
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The Fitzgeralds set sail for France. They spend most of the next seven years in Europe, predominantly in Paris
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Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as the first woman governor of the United States in Wyoming
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The Great Gatsby is published
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F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway meet at a bar in Paris.
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A play version of The Great Gatsby opens at the Ambassador Theatre on Broadway.
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The first flight to the North Pole and back occurs when pilot Floyd Bennett, with Richard Evelyn Byrd as his navigator, guided a three-engine monoplane
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Work on the gigantic sculpture at Mount Rushmore began
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The first appearance of Mickey and Minnie Mouse on film occurs with the release of the animated short film, "Plane Crazy"
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Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean.
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The United States Congress approves the construction of Boulder, later named Hoover Dam
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February 14, 1929 - In Chicago, Illinois, gangsters working for Al Capone kill seven rivals in the act known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
