ELA timeline

By draked

  • Shoeless Joe Jackson and seven other Chicago White Sox players indicted for conspiring with gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series

  • United States enters WW

  • Herbert Hoover was nominated for President

  • 18" Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits the sale of alcoholic beverages

  • 19" Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote

  • World War I ends

  • Flapper dress introduced - it featured a drop waist or no waist at all

  • First Radio Broadcast station, KDKA, opens in Pittsburgh

  • First Miss America Pageant held in Atlantic City, NJ

  • T.S. Eliot published The Wasteland and James Joyce publishes Ulysses

  • Fashion designer Gabrielle "CoCo" Chanel returns from a cruise with a suntan. Her bronzed look starts the sunbathing fashion

  • First book of Crossword puzzles published and a new mania begins

  • First Academy Awards ceremony held - movie WINGS wins best picture

  • John Scopes convicted for teaching evolution "in trial of the century"

  • 40,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan march on Washington

  • Ford Motor Company begins paying $6 a day and establishes the 40 hour work week.

  • Charles Lindbergh makes first solo flight across the Atlantic

  • First talking movie - The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson opens

  • St. Valentine's Day Massacre

  • Stock Market Crashes - "Black Tuesday" is labeled