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Warren Gamaliel Harding is elected as the 29th president of the United States
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International Business Machines Corporation was founded
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The 18th Amendment prohibited the manufacturing, transportation and sale of alcohol within the United States
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The 19th amendment granted women the right to vote
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Charles Lindbergh flew non-stop from New York to Paris.
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The intergovernmental organization was founded to keep peace in the world
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Westinghouse Radio Station KDKA was a world pioneer of commercial radio broadcasting
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Raids conducted by the U.S. 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 authorities concluded that the behavior of Sacco and Vanzetti meant that the men were guilty of something, and it was probably the payroll murders
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Readers Digest was founded by DeWitt Wallace
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Fall secretly granted to Harry F. Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company exclusive rights to the Teapot Dome
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On April 18, 1923 Yankee Stadium was opened for major league baseball.
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John Calvin Coolidge became the 30th president of the United States
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A failed coup d'état by the leader Adolf Hitler to seize power in Munich, Bavaria, on 8–9 November 1923
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A winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France
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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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Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota
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The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922
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Scopes was accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee law
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While in prison Hitler wrote a book which outlined all his plans once he got out of prison
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Langston Hughes was just twenty-four years old when his debut poetry collection The Weary Blues was published in 1926
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Ford Motor Company becomes one of the first companies in America to adopt a five day, 40 hour work week for workers in automotive factories
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On August 6, 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel
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One of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States
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In 1927 Babe Ruth became the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs
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The Holland Tunnel, the longest continuous underwater vehicular tunnel in the world, opened
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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
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Alexander Fleming discovers the antibiotic Penicillin
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Herbert Clark Hoover was elected the 31st president of the United States
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Mickey Mouse made his movie debut in Steamboat Willie, one of the earliest animated cartoons
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Seven members of the North Side Gang were murdered on Valentine's Day
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The market crashed that occurred in October because the New York Stock exchange collapsed
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Amelia Earhart would become the youngest woman ever to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engine airplane
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Ellis Island shuts its doors to immigration
