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The Nineteenth Amendment is ratified, granting woman the right to vote.
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Baseball's World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time; the New York Giants defeat the New York Yankees, five games to three.
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Germany, burdened by reparations payments imposed by Treaty of Versailles, suffers hyperinflation. One american dollar is north 7,000 German Marks.
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President Warren G.Harding dies of stroke in a San Francisco hotel room. Vice President Calvin Coolidge ascends to presidency.
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The market capitalization of Ford Motor Company exceeds $1 billion.
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Forty thousand Ku Klux Klansmen march on Washington, their white-hooded procession filling Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Charlie Chaplin's popular silent comedy The Gold Rush premieres before enthusiastic audiences
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Buster Keaton's comedy classic The General, considered by many to be the greatest silent film ever made, premieres.
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Ernest Hemingway publishes The Sun Also Rises
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With all possible avenues of appeal now exhausted, Italian immigrant radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed by electric chair.
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New York Yankees star Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of the season, breaking the record of 59. Ruth record will stand for more than thirty years.
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Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer, the first "talking" motion picture, premieres, marking the beginning of the end of the silent film era.
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In the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, the single bloodiest incident in a decade-long turf war between rival Chicago mobsters fighting to control the lucrative bootlegging trade.
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Fifteen nations, including the United States, sign the Kellogg-Brand pact "outlawing" war.
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Herbert Hoover, running on a slogan of "A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage," is elected to the presidency, crushing Catholic Democrat Al Smith to maintain Republican dominance of the Oval Office.
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Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie premieres, introducing the world to a new animated character-Mickey Mouse.
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The American stock market collapses, signaling the onset of the Great Depression. The Dow will bottom out at a Depression-era ow of just 41.22 in 1932.