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Woodrow Willson becomes the 28th president.
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The Ford Motor Company insituates the first automobile
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Wilson signs the Underwoods-Simmons Tariff Act, reducing taxes on manufactured good.
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On this date, during the outbreak of WW1, the Germans topedoed the Lusitania, which led to the sinking of the ship.
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Harding is elected the 29th president.
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Harding signs the Quota Act which is limiting the number of immigrants from any given country to 3 percent of that nationally already in the United States.
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Harding signs a joint congressional reconstruction to end war with germany.
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VIce President Coolidge takes place of the presidency, after harding dies of either a heart attack or stroke.
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Harding dies unexpectally of a unknown cause. They believe it was a stroke or a heart attack.
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Governor J. C. Walton places Oklahoma under martial law in order to suppress the increasing terrorism of the Ku Klux Klan, which has reemerged in the South and Midwest in response to worsening economic conditions.
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Congress passes a new immigration law with even more restrictive quotas than those established by a temporary act two years earlier. Japanese immigrants are barred completely while Canadians and Mexicans remain exempted from the quotas.
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The Dawes Plan is signed by the United States, France, Great Britain, Italy, and Belgium to solve the German reparations problem and to end the occupation of the Ruhr by French and Belgium troops. Overseen by Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, the plan was drawn up by Coolidge's running-mate, Charles G. Dawes, and based the reparations schedule on what Germany could pay rather than on what she could be forced to pay. For his part, Dawes would win the Nobel Peace Prize the following year.
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Hover becomes the 31st president.
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The New York Stock Exchange experiences a collaspe in stock prices as 13 million shares are sold.
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The London Naval Treaty is signed by the United States, Britain, and Japan. France and Italy refuse to sign major provisions of the treaty, which remains in effect until 1937.
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The “Star Spangled Banner” officially becomes the national anthem.
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First lady Eleanor Roosevelt holds the first First Lady press conference where only female reporters are invited to attend.
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Roosevelt is elected the 32nd president.
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A severe dust storm hits the central and southern plains, blowing an estimated 300,000,000 tons of topsoil from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, and Colorado as far east as the Atlantic Ocean. It is only one of a number of such storms ravaging a region which becomes known as “the Dust Bowl.” In large part, the conditions are due to the improper plowing and farming practices used to squeeze yields and profits out of the land during the Depression. Many inhabitants, some of whom are known as “Ok
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The NAACP wins its case, Gibbs v. Board of Education, against the state of Maryland, ensuring that white and black teachers are paid equally.
