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Women were granted the right to vote.
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President Warren G. Harding wins the presidential election by a landslide. He won 60% of the popular vote and 75% of the electoral vote.
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The baseball world series was broadcast on the radio for the first time as the Giants beat the Yankees.
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The Sacco/Vanzetti trial begins. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were involved in the case.
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The Teapot Dome Scandal begins. It was a bribery scandal involving President Warren and the Secretary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall.
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Yankee Stadium was built in the Bronx, New York.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby. It is a book about fictional characters that live in Long Island in the summer of 1922.
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40,000 Ku Klux Klansmen marched on Washington as their white hoods fill Pennsylvania Avenue.
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George Herman Ruth Jr. (Babe Ruth) hits his 60th homerun. He played for 22 seasons. (1914-1935)
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Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" premieres introducing the world to the now famous, Mickey Mouse.