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Prohibition Begins in the U.S.
this Amendment went into affect, making the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor illegal and beginning Prohibition in the United States. -
Lie Detector Invented
, the modern polygraph machine was invented by John Larson in 1921. -
Tomb of King Tut Discovered
while clearing away some ancient huts, one of Howard Carter's workmen found a hidden step near the base of the tomb of Rameses VI. Though he hoped it led to an ancient, royal tomb, it could just as easily have been a royal cache or, much worse, empty - pilfered in antiquity -
Hilter put in jail
Adolf Hitler and some of his confederates stormed into a beer hall and attempted to force the triumvirate, the three men that governed Bavaria, to join him in a national revolution. The men of the tiumvirate disagreed. Hitler was arrested three days later and after a short trial, he was sentenced to five years in prison. -
First Olympic Winter Games
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Flapper Dresses in Style
Flappers were young women in the 1920s whose dress, hair style, and attitude were much different than the Gibson Girl, the image of the ideal woman just a generation earlier. Flappers dressed somewhat like a boy; they tightly wound their chest with strips of cloth in order to flatten it and chopped off most of their hair. The waists of flapper clothes were dropped to the hipline. The hem of the skirts also started to rise in the 1920s. At first the hem only rose a few inches, but from 1925 to 1 -
The Great Gatsby was published
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The Invention of Bubble Gum
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Sliced Bread Invented
Bench's sales quickly skyrocketed and they knew the invention was a success. -
The Great Depression
The stock market, which had appeared to be the surest way to become rich, quickly became the path to bankruptcy.
