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Woodrow Wilson elected as president
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Flappers started
Women who smoked, drank, cut their hair and wore shorter than normal skirts. "Flapper" meant women who wore loose clothes and went dancing. -
Radio Broadcasting
Broadcasting began in 1920 with KDKA. Chicago's first radio station, KYW in 1921. -
Hair Dryer was invented
The Hair Dryer was invented in Germany. By this women who had insert a hose in the exhaust of a vacuum cleaner. -
Dance Marathons
Couples would dance for hours on end to recieve prize money. 25-cent admission charge. -
The Voldstead Act
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Q-Tips were invented
Leo Gerstenzang had took his wife invention and put it on the market. The real name used to be called Baby Gays. -
Traffic Light was invented
The traffic light was invented by police officer William Potts. He used red, amber and green lights and $37 worth of wire to make his traffic light -
Automobile with Combustion Engine
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19th Amendment
In 1919 the House of Representatives passed the 19th amendment, 304 to 90. On this date, the senate passed the amendment 56 to 25. -
Band-Aid was invented
The Band-Aid was invented by a man called Earle Dickson. The reason why he invented the band-aid because his wife Josephine Dickson would be cutting herself every day -
Miss America Pagents
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Warren Harding elected as president
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Woodrow Wilson loses the election to Warren Harding
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Lie Detector was invented
John A. Larson was the inventer of the lie detector test. He was a medical student when he invented the test in Califorina. -
The Cable Act is passed in the US
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Bulldozer was invented
The Bulldozer was invented by Engineer Benjamin Holt. He bulit a crawling tracter which he called the caterpillar. LaPlant-Choate Manufacturing Company had produced the first bulldozer in 1923. -
Warren G Harding dies
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Calvin Coolige becomes president
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Bessie Smith records her first song Jailhouse Blues
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Lois Armstrong is a jass musician
Louis Armstrong, one of the first male jazz singers from the twenties was a founder of vocal jazz. Setting high standards with his voice and his trumpet. One of his major recordings was was West End Blues that came out in 1925. He changed the music of the world and was vastly known throughout the twenties. -
Liquid-Fueled Rocket was invented
The Liquid-Fueled Rocket was invented by Robert Goddard. The North American Space Association still use it today. -
Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs in a year
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Gertrude Ederle brcame first woman to swim across Englash Channel
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Charels Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
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Kool-Aid was invented
Kool-Aid was invented by Edwin Perkins of Omaha, Nebraska. The original name was called Fruit Smack. -
Bread Slicer was invented
The bread slicer was invented by Otto Frederick Rowedder he lived in Iowa he worked on it every day since 1912. He completed the machine that could successfully cut and wrap a loaf of bread. -
Walt Disney makes his first first Mickey Mouse cartoon.
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The first color television experiments are performed by Alexander Grahm Bell
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Calvin Collige loses election to Herbert Hoover
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Herbert Hoover becomes president
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Herbert Hoover loses election to Franklin D Roosevelt