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19th Amendment
Wemen got the right to vote. -
Warren G. Harding becomes president
Harding is seen as one of the worst presidents in American History. Much of this is due to the number of scandals that his appointees were involved in. -
Tomb of King Tut discovered
Tutankhamun’s tomb is located in the Valley of the Kings and is by far the best presrved royal tomb ever discovered. The tomb, which was thought to be left intact, was believed to be robbed twice. Even though this tomb revaled treasure beyond our imagination, it was modestly furnished compared to the pharahs before and after Tutankhamun's time. It was discoverd by Howard Carter. -
teapot dome
The "Teapot Dome" referred to an area in Wyoming where oil fields were located. Oil fields in Elk Hills and Buena Vista Hills, in California, were also involved in the scandal. -
Calvin Coolidge
President Harding died unexpectedly while in office, so the vice president, Calvin Coolidge, stepped up. Coolidge succeeded to the presidency on August 3, 1923. -
Time magizine founded
Founded by Briton Hadden (1898-1929) and Henry R. Luce (1898-1967), this weekly news magazine is targeted at busy Americans who cannot keep abreast of the news in the daily newspaper. It began to turn a profit by 1927 and was imitated by Newsweek and United States News in 1933. -
Hittler Jailed
Ten years before Hitler came to power in Germany, he tried to take it by force. One night Adolf Hitler and some of his confederates stormed into a beer hall and attempted to force the triumvirate, the three men that governed Bavaria, to join him in a national revolution. The men of the tiumvirate disagreed. Hitler was arrested three days later and after a short trial, he was sentenced to five years in prison. -
First Olympic winter games
The first Winter Olympic Games were actually called “The International Winter Sports Week” and went on for 11 days in the French Alps, 60 miles northeast of Grenoble. -
Houdini Dies
Harry Houdini died of peritonitis secondary to a ruptured appendix. It has been speculated that Houdini was killed accidentally by a McGill University student, J. Gordon Whitehead, who delivered multiple blows to Houdini's abdomen (with permission) while he was in Montreal, in order to test Houdini's claim that he was able to take a blow to the body above the waist without injury. -
Penicillin Discovered
In 1928, bacteriologist Alexander Fleming found a mold had contaminated one of his experiments. To his surprise, the mold was an antibacterial agent that could kill many harmful bacteria. -
St. Valentine's day massacre
Posing as police officers conducting a routine raid on February 14, 1929, four men entered a warehouse at 2122 N. Clark Street, used by George “Bugs” Moran and his gang to store liquor. The impostors lined up six gang members and a hanger-on against a wall, produced machine guns from under their overcoats, and opened fire. -
Herbert Hoover becomes presodent
"We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land." -
wall street Stock market crashes
The spectacular stock market crash of October 1929 was a time of reckoning for young and old, rich and poor.
