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President Woodrow Wilson collapsed in Pueblo, Colo., while touring the nation to muster popular support for a League of Nations in the aftermath World War I.
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The inauguration of Warren G. Harding took place on March 4, 1921, marking the beginning of his tenure as the 29th President of the United States and Calvin Coolidge's tenure as Vice President.
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Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Mass, of killing their shoe company's paymaster
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Marcus Garvey, Jamaican political leader and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Nation, was found guilty of mail fraud and deported back to Jamaica.
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On Aug. 2, 1923, the 29th president of the United States, Warren G. Harding, died in San Francisco. Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office as President of the United States.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes his novel The Great Gatsby.
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In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" ends with John Thomas Scopes being convicted of teaching evolution in violation of Tennessee law. Scopes was ordered to pay a fine of $100, the minimum the law allowed. William Jennings Bryan served as Prosecutor.
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On July 21, 1925, the ''monkey trial'' ended in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. (The conviction was later overturned.) Clarence Darrow was the famed criminal defense lawyer.
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American pilot Charles A. Lindbergh lands at Le Bourget Field in Paris, successfully completing the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight and the first ever nonstop flight between New York to Paris.
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On September 30, 1927, Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of the 1927 season and with it sets a record that would stand for 34 years.
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On Feb. 14, 1929, the gangster Al Capone’s gang gunned down seven members of a rival Chicago gang in the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.
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An important Harlem Renaissance writer whose masterpiece was Their Eyes Were Watching God. Her writing was very regional and closely followed the speech patterns of Central Florida.
