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1920-1929
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Fitzgerald Gets Married
F Scott Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre -
NFL
The American Professional Football League is formed in 1920 with Jim Thorpe as its president and eleven teams -
First Short Story
His first short story collection Flappers and Philosophers was published -
Election
November 1920 - A landslide victory for Warren G. Harding in both the Electoral College and popular vote returns the Republican Party to the White House -
Fitzgerald Travels To Europe
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Miss America
The first Miss America pageant is held in Atlantic City, New Jersey. -
First Born
The Fitzgeralds' first and only child is born, a daughter named Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald. -
Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest is founded and the first issue published by Dewitt and Lila Wallace -
The Beautiful and Damned
The Beautiful and Damned is published -
Lincoln Memorial
The Lincoln Memorial, located on the opposite end of the National Mall from the Capitol building, is dedicated in Washington, D.C. -
Fitzgerald Moved to long Island
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Time Magazine
Time Magazine is published for the first time.
is published for the first time. -
President Warren G. Harding Dies
President Warren G. Harding dies in office after becoming ill following a trip to Alaska -
IMB
The IBM corporation is founded. -
Move
The Fitzgeralds set sail for France. They spend most of the next seven years in Europe, predominantly in Paris -
First Women Governor
Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as the first woman governor of the United States in Wyoming -
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is published -
Fitzgerald and Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway meet at a bar in Paris. -
Great Gatsby Becomes a Play
A play version of The Great Gatsby opens at the Ambassador Theatre on Broadway. -
First flight to North Pole
The first flight to the North Pole and back occurs when pilot Floyd Bennett, with Richard Evelyn Byrd as his navigator, guided a three-engine monoplane -
MT. Rushmore
Work on the gigantic sculpture at Mount Rushmore began -
Mickey and Minnie
The first appearance of Mickey and Minnie Mouse on film occurs with the release of the animated short film, "Plane Crazy" -
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean. -
Hoover Dam
The United States Congress approves the construction of Boulder, later named Hoover Dam -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
February 14, 1929 - In Chicago, Illinois, gangsters working for Al Capone kill seven rivals in the act known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
