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U.S. signs peace treaty with Germany.
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Warner Bros. Picture is incorporated
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Harvey Firestone
Tire and Rubber company that started producing inflatable tires. -
Adolf Hitler goes on trial for treason.
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Calvin Coolidge.
Wins his first election as President, retaining the White House for the Republican Party over his Democratic foe, John W. Davis, and Progressive Party candidate Robert M. La Follette. The Electoral margin was 382 to 136 (Davis) to 13 (La Follette). -
Nellie Tayloe Ross
Inaugurated as the first woman governor of the United States in Wyoming. Miriam Ferguson is installed two weeks later as the second during a ceremony in Texas. -
Marcus Garvey
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Walter Chrysler.
Founds automobile Chrysler Corporation. -
The Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial
Begins and would later convict John T. Scopes of teaching Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory at a Dayton, Tennessee high school, which violated Tennessee law. He is fined $100 for the charge. -
United States Observes the First Negro History Week Later Known as Black History Month.
Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875 - April 3, 1950) was an African-American historian, author, journalist and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. -
NBC Radio Network forms.
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The Great Mississippi Flood occurs
Affected over 700,000 people. -
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Charles Lindbergh
Makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis. -
Philo Taylor
Successful invention of the television occurs. -
Amelia Earhart
Becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. -
U.S. Congress approves construction of the boulder, the Hoover Dam.
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Herbert Hoover.
Inaugurated as the 31st President. -
Stock Market crashes.
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The Star Spangled Banner adopted as the national anthem.
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The 20th Amendment is ratified
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NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation and discrimination.
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The 21st Amendment is ratified.
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Social Security act is passed
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Amelia Earhart disappears.
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End of the Spanish Civil War.
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Battle of Britain.
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Japan attacks Hawaii, Guam, and the Phillipines
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
