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The IBM Corporation is founded
It began as the Computing, Tabulating & Recording Company (C-T-R) founded by Herman Hollerith in the late 1800s. Their first large contract was to provide tabulating equipment for the tabulation and analysis of the 1890 US census. -
18th Amendment
Begins the prohibition -
The League of Nations is founded
Woodrow Wilson created the league while writing the Treaty of Versailles in order to end WW1. -
The Palmer Raids arrest and deport over 6,000 suspected "radicals"
Palmer Raids, also called Palmer Red Raids, raids conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice in 1919 and 1920 in an attempt to arrest foreign anarchists, communists, and radical leftists, many of whom were subsequently deported. -
19th Amendment
Women suffrage is granted -
KDKA
KDKA airs first commercially broadcast program -
Warren G. Harding is elected president
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States from 1921 until his death in 1923. -
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
The trial lasted nearly seven weeks, and on July 14, 1921, Sacco and Vanzetti were found guilty of murder in the first degree. So far as the crime is concerned, we are dealing with a conventional case of payroll robbery. At the trial the killing of Parmenter and Berardelli was undisputed. -
Readers Digest is founded
Reader's Digest is an American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, it is now headquartered in Midtown Manhattan. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The "Teapot Dome scandal" was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921–1923. -
Yankee Stadium
First game in Yankee Stadium -
President Harding dies
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States from 1921 until his death in 1923. -
President Coolidge
John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was an American politician and the 30th President of the United States. A Republican lawyer from New England, born in Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor. -
Hitler fails to overthrow gov.
Hitler gets thrown in prison but realizes how to overthrow: from the inside. Writes Mein Kamf while in there. -
First Winter Olympics
This was the beginning of a tradition that lasts to this day -
Rhapsody in Blue
Rhapsody in Blue is a 1924 musical composition by American composer George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects. The composition was commissioned by bandleader Paul Whiteman. -
National Origins Act
The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the National Origins Act, and Asian Exclusion Act was a United States federal law that set quotas on the number of immigrants from certain countries -
The Great Gatsby is published
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a classic that served as a complete explanation of the 20's. -
Mein Kamf
Hitler releases a memoir entitled "My Struggle" -
Scopes Monkey Trial begins in Dayton, TN
John Thomas Scopes, a young high school science teacher, was accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. -
The Weary Blue
Langston Hughes publishes his first set of poems -
Gertrude Ederle breaks record
Becomes first woman to swim across English channel -
The Ford Motor Co. announces the creation of the 40 hour work week
Created more jobs and gave people more money for overtime. -
Great Mississippi Flood
Displaces 700,000 people -
Charles Lindbergh makes the first non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight
It was the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic and the first to link the two major cities. -
Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs
Becomes a legend and sets record for 34 years. -
First film with sound
The Jazz Singer becomes first ever film with sound -
Holland Tunnel
The Holland Tunnel is a vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River. It connects Manhattan in New York City, New York, to the east, and Jersey City, New Jersey, to the west. An integral conduit within the New York metropolitan area, the Holland Tunnel is operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. -
Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin
In 1928 Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, made from the Penicillium notatum mold, but he did not receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery until 1945. -
Herbert Hoover is elected president
The United States presidential election of 1928 was the 36th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1928. Republican Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover defeated the Democratic nominee, Governor Al Smith of New York. Hoover was the last Republican to win a presidential election until 1952. -
Mickey Mouse makes first appearance
Mickey Mouse became the face of the huge company: Disney. -
Chicago's St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang were murdered. The men were gathered at a Lincoln Park garage on the morning of Valentine's Day, where they were made to line up against a wall and shot by four unknown assailants. -
Stock Market crashes on Black Tuesday
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Stock Market Crash of 1929 or the Great Crash, is the stock market crash that occurred in late October, 1929. It started on October 24 and continued until October 29, 1929, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed -
Amelia Earhart attempts to fly around the world
Gets lost with her copilot and is never heard from again -
Ellis Island closes as an immigration point to the U.S.
Ellis Island closed after admitting 12 million immigrants.