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First Crossword puzzles published
Later, Arthur Wynne moved to Cedar Grove, New Jersey and stared working for New York City based newpaper. He wrote the first crossword puzzle for the New York World, published on Sunday, De 21, 1913. The editor asked Wynne to invent a new game for the paper's Sunday enterainment section. -
World War 1 Ends
World War I was gloal war centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. From the time of its occurrence until the approach of World War II in 1939. In America it was initially called the European War. More than 9 million combatants were killed; it was the fifth-deadliest conflict in world history, paving the wat for major political changes, including many of the nations involved. -
United States enters WWI
On April 6, 1917, the U.S. joined its allies--Britain, France, and Russia to fight in World War I. Under Major General John J. Pershing commands, more than two million U.S. soldiers fought on battlefields in France. -
Publishers
T.S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922. Its a long poem, it is widely regarded as "one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central text in Modernist poetry. James Joyce published Ulysses. It is a modernist. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920. -
Flapper Dress
Flapper were a "new breed" of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirt, bobbed their hair, listened to jzz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered accepteble behavior. Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automoblies, and otherwise flouting socail and sexual norms. -
Ford Motor Company
Since its founding in 1903, Ford has established itself as a premier American employment practices years before the law required it. Today Ford continues to attract a highly skilled committed workforce that reflects a broad spectrum of culture, ethnicity, rac, perspective, age, religion, physical ability ans sexual orientation. Within its first years, Ford had established sales operations in the United Staes, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, parts of Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Russia. -
The 18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment of the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport and slae of alcohol illegal. Prohibition actually became law before American women got the right to vote across the USA. -
19th Amendment
The 19th Amendent to the Uited Staes citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. It was ratified on Aug 18, 1920. The Constitiution allows the staes to determine the qualifications for voting, and until in 1920s most states disenfranchised women. -
Chicago White Sox Players
Seven star players for the Chicago White Sox and one former player were indicted ate his afternoon, charged with complicity in a conspiracy with gamblers to "fix" the 1919 world's series. The indictments were based on evidence obtained for the Cook County Grand Jury by Charles A Comiskey, owner of the White Sox, and atfer confessions by two of the players told how the world's championship was thrown to Cincinnati and how they had received money or were "double-crossed" by the gamblers. -
First Radio Broadcast station
THe U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Navigation, which served as the radio licensing agency of the day, issed the first radio license ever to KDKA, on Oct. 1920. Many people ask if "KDKA" stands for anything, but the simple answer is: no. The call letters "KDKA" was assigned identification for ships and marine shore stations. "KDKA was the next set of call letters available on the roster. -
First Miss America Pageant
1902, Atlantic City merchants promoted a Floral Parade of bathing beauties. In 1921, as a device for extending the summer season beyond Labor Day, some Atlantic City businessmen organized a small-scale beauty contest. Seven cities in the Northeast each sent a "beauty maid" to represent them in the contest during the first week of September. The first winner was sixteen year-old Margaret Gorman, representing Washington, D.C., who was awarded a Golden Mermaid statue and the title "Miss America." -
"CoCo" Chanel sunbathing fashion
In a surprising turn of events, the woman who is responsible for the most sophisticated and beauitful fashion and beauty in history, accidentally begun the tanning trend; that woman was Coco Chanel. In 1923 Coco Chanel returned from a cruise around the south of Cannes. She had been accidentaly sunburnt, but instead of looking uncool, immediately statred a worldwide trend. It wasn't until the 19502 when tanning became popular. Sun beds came into existence around the 1970s. Even though tanning is -
John Scopes Trail
John T. Scopes, high school teacher, indicted for having taught the theory of evolution to students attending his science classes in violation of a law passed by the Tennessee Legislature and signed by the Governor on March 21, 1925. The date of the trial was set for July 1o at Dayton. The hearing will bring many notables. -
Ku Klux Klan Marches
Ku Klux Klan shared with its nineteenth-century namesake a deep racism, a fascination with mystical regalia, and a willingness to use violence to silence its foes, It also professed anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism as strongy as it affirmed racism. The "secret" society had 3 million members during its eyday in the early 1920's. -
Charles Lindbergh
At 7:52 A.M., May 20 1927 Charles Lindbergh gunned the engine of the "Spiritt of St Louis" and aimed her down the dirt runway of Roosevelt Field, Long Island. Heavily laden with fuel, the plane bounced down the muddy field, gradually became airbone and barely cleared the telephone wires at the field's edge. The crowd of 500 thought they had witnessed a miracle. 33 and 1 half-hours and 3,500 miles later laned in Paris, frst to fly the Altantic alone. -
First Talking Movie
THe Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical film. The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, its release heralded the commerical ascendance of the "talkies" and decline of the silent film era. -
Herbert Hoover Nominated
The United States presidential election of 1928 was the 36th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, Novemeber 6, 1928. Herber Hoover was nominated as the Republican candidate, as incumbent Presiden Calvin Coolidge chose not to run for a second full term. -
Stock Market Crashes
A stock market crash is sudden dramatic decline f stock prices across a siginificant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic as mush as by underlying economic factors. -
St, Valentine's Day Massacre
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was given the name to a muder of seven mob associates in 1929, as a part of a prohibition-era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago: the South Side Italian gang and the North Side Irish gang. -
First Academy Awards
THe 1st Academy Awards cermony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science honored the best films of 1927 and 1928 and took place on May 16, 1929, at a privated dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Douglas Fairbanks hosted the show
