The first performance of the play, Beyond the Horizon, is held.
Women are given the right to vote
The AFL is formed
Warren G. Harding runs for President
The United States Congress paases the Emergency Quota Act
A Congressional resolution by both houses is signed by President Warren G. Harding,
The proposal for a trail along the Allegheny Mountain ridges is put forward.
The first Miss America pageant is held in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Margaret Gorman wins the first Miss America pageant
The Limitation on Armaments Congress convenes in Washington, D.C.
Reader's Digest is founded
The Armaments Congress ends
The Teapot Dome scandal begins
Construction begins on Yankee Stadium
The Lincoln Memorial is dedicatd in Washington D.C
The AFL is changed to NFL
The 12th century Aztec Indian ruins in New Mexico are proclaimed as a National Monument by President Warren G. Harding,
Time Magazine is published for the first time.
Warner Brothers Pictures is incorporated.
The first sound on film motion picture Phonofilm is shown
President Warren G. Harding dies in office after becoming ill following a trip to Alaska.
The first Winter Olympic Games are held in the French Alps in Chamonix, France.
The IBM corporation is founded during Valentines Dsy
J. Edgar Hoover is appointed to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
All Indians are designated citizens by legislation passed in the U.S. Congress
The Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial begins and would later convict John T. Scopes of teaching Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory at a Dayton, Tennessee high school, which violated Tennessee law. He is fined $100 for the charge.
Calvin Coolidge wins his first election as President
Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as the first woman governor of the United States in Wyoming.
Radiovision is born.
Lava Beds National Monument in California is designated by President Calvin Coolidge.
The Grand Ole Opry transmits its first radio broadcast.
Robert H. Goddard demonstrates the viability of the first liquid fueled rockets with his test in Auburn, Massachusetts.
Air Commerce Act is passed
The Sesqui-Centennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia
The NBC Radio Network is formed by Westinghouse, General Electric, and RCA, opening with twenty-four stations.
The Sesqui-Centennial Exposition sadly closes in Philadelphia
The civil war in China prompts one thousand United States marines to land in order to protect property of United States interests.
The Great Mississippi Flood occurs, affecting over 700,000.
The Great Mississippi Flood comes to an end
Charles Lindbergh leaves Roosevelt Field, New York on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in history.
First success in the invention of television occurs by American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth. The complete electronic television system would be patented three years later on August 26, 1930.
Work on the gigantic sculpture at Mount Rushmore begins.
The advent of talking pictures emerges. Al Jolson in the Jazz Singer debuts in New York City.
The Tennessee national military park known as Fort Donelson National Battlefield is created by legislation signed into law by President Calvin Coolidge.
The first appearance of Mickey and Minnie Mouse on film occurs
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean.
Herbert Hoover wins election as President of the United States with an Electoral College victory, 444 to 87 over Democratic candidate Alfred E. Smith,
The United States Congress approves the construction of Boulder, later named Hoover Dam.
Future Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King is born in his grandfather's house in Atlanta, Georgia.
In Chicago, Illinois, gangsters working for Al Capone kill seven rivals and citizens in the act known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
JC Penney opens its Store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, the last state in the Union to have one of their stores.
The Teapot Dome scandal comes to a close when Albert B. Fall, the former Secretary of the Interior, is convicted of accepting a $100,000 bribe for leasing the Elk Hills naval oil reserve.
Postwar prosperity ends in the 1929 Stock Market crash.
