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Albert Einstein lectures in New York
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Supreme court declares the 19th amendment to be constitutional.
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Time magazine was published for the first time
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President Harding dies after suffering ptomaine Poisoning
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Grand Ole Opry transmits it's first radio broadcast
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Robert H. Goddard demonstrates the viability of the first liquid fueled rockets
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The Great Mississippi Flood occurs killing alot of people and causing alot of damages
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First success in the invention of the television.
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The advent of talking pictures emerges. Al Jolson in the Jazz Singer debuts in New York City.
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Martin Luther King Jr. is born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of a Baptist minister. King received a doctorate degree in theology and in 1955 helped organized the first major protest of the African-American civil rights movement: the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott.