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NY Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from Red Sox for $125,000
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Turkey makes peace with Armenia
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German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized
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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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Aviator Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo transatlantic flight, landing his "Spirit of Saint Louis" in Paris 33 hours after departing from New York. Lindbergh becomes a national hero.
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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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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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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, members of Al Capone's gang murder six followers of rival Bugs Moran.
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More than 40% of the nations fail
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The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 19, 1931, when Manchuria was invaded by the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II.
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Japan invades manchuria
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Congress creates the SEC to regulate the stock market.
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Adolf Hitler takes power in Germany
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Hitler and the nazi party come to power in germany.
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congress creates the SEC to regulate the stock market
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Congress passes the social security act
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Mussolini leads Italian invasion of Ethiopia.
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President Roosvelt is reelected
