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The first Miss America pageant is held in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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The Teapot Dome scandal begins when the U.S. Secretary of the Interior leases the Teapot Oil Reserves in Wyoming.
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President Warren G. Harding dies in office after becoming ill following a trip to Alaska, and is succeeded by his Vice President, Calvin Coolidge.
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J. Edgar Hoover is appointed to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as the first woman governor of the United States in Wyoming.
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Future Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King.
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The state of Nevada legalizes gambling.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for the first time.
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The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed, ending prohibition.
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The Naval Expansion Act passes.
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The United States government approves a sale of surplus war material to Great Britain. .