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woodrow wilson suffers a stroke
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palmer raids begin
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steel strike ends
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Senate refuses to ratify the Versailles Treaty or authorize United States participation in the League of Nations.
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19th amendment is ratified
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Warren G. Harding is elected to the presidency by a landslide
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Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
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Congress passes the Fordney-McCumber Tariff
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President Warren G. Harding dies of stroke
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john scope gets arrested
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Forty thousand Ku Klux Klansmen march on Washington
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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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Aviator Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo transatlantic flight
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Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of the season
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Kellogg-Briand pact "outlawing" war
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Herbert Hoover is elected president
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The stock market crashes
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stock market crashes
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saint valentines day massacre
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More than 3.2 million people are unemployed
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Texas congressman Wright Patman introduces legislation authorizing immediate payment of "bonus" funds to veterans of World War I
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"Food riots" begin to break out in parts of the U.S.
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New York's Bank of the United States collapses
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First Modern Credit Card Introduced
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Korean War Begins
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Color TV Introduced
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Car Seat Belts Introduced
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First Playboy Magazine
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Roger Bannister Breaks the Four-Minute Mile
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Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat on a Bus
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T.V. Remote Control Invented
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Dr. Seuss Publishes The Cat in the Hat