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Congress passes immigration restrictions, for the first time creating a quota for European immigration to the United States. Targeted at "undesirable" immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, the act sharply curtails the quota for those areas while retaining a generous allowance for migrants from Northern and Western Europe.
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Baseball's World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time; the New York Giants defeat the New York Yankees, five games to three.
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President Warren G. Harding dies of stroke in a San Francisco hotel room. Vice President Calvin Coolidge ascends to presidency
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The market capitalization of Ford Motor Company exceeds $1 billion.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby
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Forty thousand Ku Klux Klansmen march on Washington, their white-hooded procession filling Pennsylvania Avenue
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Ernest Hemingway publishes The Sun Also Rises
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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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Fifteen 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.
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New York Yankees star Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of the season, breaking his own record of 59. Ruth's record will stand for more than thirty years
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Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer, the first "talking" motion picture, premieres, marking the beginning of the end of the silent film era.
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Herbert Hoover, running on a slogan of "A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage," is elected to the presidency, crushing Catholic Democrat Al Smith to maintain Republican dominance of the Oval Office.