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The Great Gatsby Timeline

By lendertk

  • 1921

    1921
    Warren G Harding is elected the 29th President of the United States

  • 1922

    1922
    Rebecca Felton of Georgia becomes the first female United States Senator, when the governor of Georgia gives her a temporary appointment, pending the election of a replacement for Senator Thomas Watson, who had died.

  • 1923

    1923
    The First Yankee Stadium opened it's doors in the Bronx, New York City

  • 1924

    1924
    In New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

  • 1925

    1925
    F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.

  • 1926

    1926
    DeFord Bailey is the first African-American to perform on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry.

  • 1927

    1927
    The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as CBS) is formed and goes on the air with 47 radio stations.

  • 1928

    1928
    Jean Lussier goes over Niagara Falls in a rubber ball.

  • 1929

    1929
    The first public demonstration of color television is held, by H. E. Ives and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City. The first images are a bouquet of roses and an American flag. A mechanical system is used to transmit 50-line color television images between New York and Washington, D.C.

  • 1929

    1929
    Former U.S. Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall is convicted of bribery for his role in the Teapot Dome scandal, becoming the first Presidential cabinet member to go to prison for actions in office.