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  The League of Nations is established.
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  Nine days after the League of Nations is formed, The United States votes not to join it.
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  The two get married on March 26th, once Fitzgerald provides to be financially stable
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  Women are given the right to vote due to the 19th Amendment
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  The American Professional Football League is formed in 1920 with Jim Thorpe as its president.
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  The publication of his first short story collection Flappers and Philosophers
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  The Fitzgeralds depart for their first trip to Europe and they spend three months in England, France and Italy
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  A Congressional resolution is signed by President Warren G. Harding, declaring peace in World War I hostilities with Germany, Austria, and Hungary.
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  Fitzgerald's and Zelda's daughter Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald, was born on October 26, 1921
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  Construction begins on Yankee Stadium in New York City
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  The Fitzgeralds rent a house in Great Neck, Long Island. The couple's interactions with Long Island society provide the setting and mood for the novel germinating in Fitzgerald's head
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  Time Magazine is published for the first time
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  The first sound on film motion picture Phonofilm is show in New York City .
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  They spend most of the next seven years in Paris
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  The Great Gatsby is published, Fitzgerald's settle in Paris a few weeks later.
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  Fitzgerald and Hemingway meet at a bar in Paris
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  The Grand Ole Opry transmits its first radio broadcast.
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  The first flight to the North Pole and back occurs when pilot Floyd Bennett, with Richard Evelyn Byrd as his navigator, guided a three-engine monoplane.
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  Great Mississippi Flood occurs, affecting over 700,000.
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  First invention of television occurs by American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth
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  Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean
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  Postwar prosperity ends in the Stock Market crash. Stock prices led to losses between $50 billion
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  After the Stock Market Crash in 1929, the Great Depression begins and pending dropped and unsold goods began to pile up, slowing production
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  Zelda suffers her first nervous breakdown and spends much of the next year hospitalized
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  In November Fitzgerald publishes the short story "One Trip Abroad," about an American couple who fall apart in Europe.