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1920's
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19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment is ratified and now woman have the right to vote as this was and still is a huge part of are society as it leads to many different protest nowadays. -
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
Italian Immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are trialed and later convicted of murder, they both were executed. Later there was theory that they may have not committed the crime. -
First Baseball Game On Radio
The first baseball game to ever be aired on the radio was the Pittsburgh Pirates versus the Philadelphia Phillies by a radio Company called KDKA and WJZ of Newark. They later aired the World series that year. -
Yankee Stadium
A stadium in Bronx a borough of New York City. It was a home ballpark of unstoppable New York Yankees. It has hosted 6,581 New York Yankees games during it's 85-year span. -
Ford Motor Company
The market capitalization of Ford Motor Company exceeds to a Whopping $1 Billion -
Teaching Evolution
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. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
15 nations, including the United States, sign the Kellogg-Briand pact "outlawing" war. The unenforceable pact will be made a mockery through the rise of European fascist states in the 1930s. -
Mickey Mouse
Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie. Introducing the world to an animated character Mickey Mouse. This would later be a huge hit and very successful having two theme parks -
Stock Market Crash
The American stock market collapses, signaling the onset of the Great Depression. The Dow Jones Industrial Average peaks in September 1929 at 381.17—a level that it won't reach again until 1954. The Dow will bottom out at a Depression-era low of just 41.22 in 1932. -
Chicago Mob
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.
