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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.
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Begins the prohibition
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Woodrow Wilson created the league while writing the Treaty of Versailles in order to end WW1.
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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.
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Women suffrage is granted
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KDKA airs first commercially broadcast program
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Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States from 1921 until his death in 1923.
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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.
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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.
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The "Teapot Dome scandal" was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921–1923.
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First game in Yankee Stadium
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Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States from 1921 until his death in 1923.
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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.
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Hitler gets thrown in prison but realizes how to overthrow: from the inside. Writes Mein Kamf while in there.
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This was the beginning of a tradition that lasts to this day
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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.
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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
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F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a classic that served as a complete explanation of the 20's.
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Hitler releases a memoir entitled "My Struggle"
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John Thomas Scopes, a young high school science teacher, was accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
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Langston Hughes publishes his first set of poems
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Becomes first woman to swim across English channel
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Created more jobs and gave people more money for overtime.
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Displaces 700,000 people
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It was the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic and the first to link the two major cities.
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Becomes a legend and sets record for 34 years.
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The Jazz Singer becomes first ever film with sound
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mickey Mouse became the face of the huge company: Disney.
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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.
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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
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Gets lost with her copilot and is never heard from again
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Ellis Island closed after admitting 12 million immigrants.