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Congress ratifies the 18th Amendment, prohibiting the sale of alcohol anywhere in the United States.
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Under heavy strain while on a speaking tour promoting the League of Nations, President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke, leaving him largely incapacitated for the final 18 months of his term. He dies on February 3rd, 1924.
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The United States reports that more people live in urban areas rather than rural.
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The 19th amendment is ratified, granting women the right to vote.
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Republican Warren G. Harding is elected to the presidency by a landslide. Harding wins 60% of the popular vote and 75% of the electoral vote.
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The Sacco-Vanzetti trial begins. Immigrant Italian radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti will eventually be convicted of murder and executed.
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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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Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching evolution, in violation of new state law banning the teaching of Darwin. The ensuing "Scopes Monkey Trial," pitting defense attorney Clarence Darrow against three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan in a proxy debate of modernity versus fundamentalism, captivates the nation. Scopes is eventually found guilty.
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Ku Klux Klan--Against Blacks, Jews, Catholics. Used terror to control them. 40,000 Ku Klux Klansmen march on Washington, their white-hooded procession filling Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Sacco and Vanzetti are executed by electric chair, with very little evidence
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Herbert Hoover defeated the Democratic nominee, Governor Al Smith of New York.
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The American stock market collapses, signaling the onset of the Great Depression.
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January 13th, 2003
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One major life event that I will never forget was Christmas break of 2013 where we didn't have power for 9 days but we all remained happy and had a fun christmas.
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May, 2021
