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The International Business Machine Cooperation is founded
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The Palmer Raids, conducted by the Department of Justice in 1919 and 1920 in an attempt to arrest foreign anarchists, communists, and radical leftists, many of whom were subsequently deported.
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The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organisation which was a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended World War I.
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The 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote
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This was the first commercial radio station which was in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
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Warren G. Harding was elected president. He was the 29th president of the united states who served from 1921 until his death in 1923.
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In a court trial, The authorities concluded that the behavior of Sacco and Vanzetti meant that the men were guilty of murder.
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Albert B. Fall, who served as secretary of the interior in President Warren G. Harding's cabinet, was found guilty of accepting a bribe while in office. He was the first individual to be convicted of a crime committed while a presidential cabinet member.
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The stadium was built in the Bronx, NY.
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Coolidge was an American Politician who became the 30th President of the US after Harding died.
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President Warren G. Harding was the 29th president of the United States. On the evening of August 2, 1923, Harding died suddenly in a San Francisco Hotel room. Today many historians belief that Harding died of a heart attack. However, the cause of his death is still unknown. He died during his third year in office. His brief time in office had little lasting value on the US.
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Adolf Hitler and his followers planned a failed takeover in the government in Bavaria, a state in southern Germany.
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The 18th amendment banned the manufacturing, transportation, and selling of alcohol.
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Congress passed a discriminatory immigration law that restricted the immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans and practically excluded Asians and other nonwhites from entry into the United States.
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Rhapsody in Blue is a 1924 musical composition by American composer George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects.
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The first winter Olympics were held in Champion, France where 16 countries gathered together to compete in winter sports.
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Mein Kampf was an autobiography written by Adolf Hitler. Hitler released the book in 1925, seven mounts after being released from Landsberg jail. During his time in prison, Hitler wrote this book which expressed his political plans. The book was full of ant-Semitic feelings, worship of power, and plans for the Natzi party. This book eventually become the bible of the Natzi party.
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"The Weary Blues" is a collection of poems by American poet Langston Hughes. "The Weary Blues" was first published in the Urban League magazine.It was awarded the magazine's prize for best poem of the year.
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This book was published becoming a classic American novel.
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John Thomas Scopes, a young high school science teacher, was accused of teaching evolution which was against Tennessee state law.
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Ederle was an American Olympic swimmer who become the first woman to swim the English Channel.
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The Ford Motor Company is one of the first companies in America to adopt a 40-hour work week for automotive factories.
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Significant rainfall in June and July in the Upper Midwest, combined with wet soil conditions, was the cause of severe flooding in the Upper Mississippi River. Record flooding began on rivers in Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
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Charles Lindbergh was an American Pilot. He made the first non-stop flight from New York and Paris.
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Babe Ruth hit his 60th home run of the season setting a record that would then last for 34 years.
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The Holland Tunnel is one of three vehicular crossings between Manhattan and New Jersey.
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The Jazz Singer, the first commercially successful full-length feature film with sound, debuts at the Blue Mouse Theater at 1421 5th Avenue in Seattle. The movie uses Warner Brothers' Vitaphone sound-on-disc technology to reproduce the musical score and sporadic episodes of synchronized speech.
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Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum
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Mickey Mouse made his movie debut in Steamboat Willie, one of the earliest animated cartoons. This seven-minute film, directed by Walt Disney, was the first to combine animation technology with synchronized sound.
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The was the murder of seven and associates of Chicago north side gang. They were gathered at Lincoln park forced to stand up against a wall and shot by four unknown assailants.
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Herbert Hoover was an American businessman, engineer, and politician who served as the 31st president of the United States.
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The Wall Street crash of 1929 started on October 24 and lasted on October 29 (black Tuesday). Share prices on New York stock collapsed.
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Earhart planned to take off from Oakland California. She was the first the first women to fly solo across the Atlantic but, she disappeared and was never found.
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Ellis Island closes after admitting millions of immigrants. From 1892 to when it officially closed its doors on this day in 1954, New York's Ellis Island processed more than 12 million immigrants coming to the U.S.
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The Readers Digest is an American general-interest magazine
