1920's Events

The 1920's

Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Dec 1, 1930

The 18th amendment came into effect

Jan 23, 1920

Warren G. Harding is elected president

Mar 23, 1920

19th amentment gives women the right to vote

May 23, 1920

New York topped the list of big cities.

May 23, 1920

Sacco and Vanzetti are comvicted of murder and armed robbery

Feb 23, 1921

Chinese Communist Party is founded in Shanghai

May 23, 1921

China's Communist party is formed

Jun 23, 1921

Federal-Aid Road Act finds a national highway system

Jul 23, 1921

The American Birth Control League is founded

Nov 23, 1921

Benito Mussolini is appointed prome minister of Italy

Mar 23, 1922

King Tut's tomb is discovered in Egypt

Jun 23, 1922

Louis Armstrong plays for King Oliver's Jazz band in Chicago

Sep 23, 1922

President Harding dies and Clavin Coolidge becomes president

Mar 23, 1923

German economic crisis

May 23, 1923

Time magazine begins publication

Jun 23, 1923

Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, dies.

Mar 23, 1924

The scopes trial takes place in Tennessee

Mar 23, 1925

British laborers declare a general strike

Mar 23, 1926

Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan

Apr 23, 1926

Henry Ford introduces the Model A

Mar 23, 1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the fisrst flight nonstop and solo across the Atlantic

Jun 23, 1927

Joseph Stalin launches the first of his Five-Year-Plans in the USSR

Mar 23, 1928

Herbert Hoover is elected president

Apr 23, 1928

President Alvaro Obregon of Mexico is assassinated

Jun 23, 1928

National Revolutionary Party is orgaized in Mexico

Mar 23, 1929