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Women won the right to vote with the adoption of the 19th Amendment. Though it took many protests and agitation, the Amendment was eventually ratified. -
Bessie Coleman became the first female African-American pilot. Many Flight Schools didn't accept her but by 1921, she became the first black woman to hold a pilot's license.
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A British Archaeologist went to discover the tomb in the Valley of Kings, and found King Tutankhamun's tomb. No one could ever find King Tut's tomb due the fact that people were looting the tombs, and King Tut's was also robbed not so long after the burial.
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After a failed coup in Germany, Adolf Hitler was arrested. Hitler was accused and found guilty of treason and was sentenced 5 years in Landsberg Prison. -
On May 21st, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb lured a 14-year old Bobby Frank into their car, killed him, and stuffed him in a culvert. After final decisions from the judge, the two boys were sentenced life in prison for kidnapping and murder. -
During the height of the Roaring 20's, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote from 1923 to 1924 to then publish "The Great Gatsby". Little did he know, that after the success of the book it was recorded as the most important American novel of the 20th Century
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A.A. Milne's "Winnie-the-pooh" was published, leading to other adventures from Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, and other characters. Eventually, the Winnie-the-pooh cartoon was created around 1966.
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Babe Ruth set the home run record that would stand for 70 years. Though it wasn't a surprise, Ruth topped the league average for home runs. -
Bread was usually baked at home or bought in loaves, that all changed when Otto Rohwedder invented the first bread-slicing machine. Soon sliced bread was put out in markets and in bakeries. -
Millions of people began to invest their savings and/or borrowed money to buy stocks, which pushed prices to the extreme causing the Stock Market Crash or "The Crash of 29". This immediately led to the beginning of the Great Depression and America was at a complete standstill.
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