First long distance telephone service, between New York and San Francisco is demonstrated.
Jeannette Rankin of Montana is the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Worldwide influenza epidemic strikes; by 1920, nearly 20 million are dead. In U.S., 500,000 perish.
Armistice ending World War I is signed.
Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, granting women the right to vote.
Tennessee passes a law against the teaching of evolution in public schools.
Hedy dropped pot of school to become an actress.
The first film she was in is called Money on the street.
Lamarr gained name recogmition as an actress for her role in the controversial fil, Ecstasy.
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
Franklin Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd president.
US declares war on Japan.
Hedy along with her friend George Antheil invented a frequency hopping spread device.
She got a patent for a secret wartime communication system that could keep the enemy from interfering with a ship's torpedoes and gave it to the US military to help fight the Nazis.
United nations is established.
Lamarr's film career began to decline.
Lamarr completed the naturalization process and became a U.S. citizen.
Her last film was The Female Animal, with Jane Powell.
