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On January 16, 1920 the league of nations met for the first time only to be voted against a few days later.
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It instituded prohibition.
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Dutch painter Piet Mondrian publishes his ideas on neoplastic style
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Winston Churchill became the Prime Minister of Great Brittain.
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The American Soccer League was formed on this day and who knew it would produce as much entertainment and money as it has.
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The Communist Party of China was founded.
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Ecuador becomes independent.
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The first time the entire World Series was broadcasted over the radio.
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The Black Renaissance forms in Harlem, NY.
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Time Magazine debuts.
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Louis Armstorng makes his first Jazz recording.
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The New York Yankees defeated the New York Giants four games to two and won the 1923 world series
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Women governors are elected in Wyoming and Texas.
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The first Winter Olympic games are held in Chamonix, Frace.
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The first time a presidential address had ever been broadcasted over the radio.
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The Scopes trial stirs a national debate on evolution.
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Jazpan enacts universal male suffrage.
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Mussolini disbands socialist parties.
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Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
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Spain leaves the League of Nations.
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The League of Nations Slavery Convention abolishes all types of slavery.
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An earthquake in Yugoslavia kills 100.
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Aviator Charles Lindvergh completes the first nonstop transatlantic solo flight.
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Communist Party congress condemns all deviation from the general party line in USSR.
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The US calls its troops home from China.
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The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill debuts in Berlin.
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Congress approves the contsruction of the Hoover Dam
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Herbert Hoover was inarguated as the 31 president of the United States
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The first Academy Awards was presented in Hollywood, California.
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The Stock market crashed, whiping out $30 Million in stock exchange.
