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The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, the precursor to IBM, was founded on June 16, 1911.
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The 18th Amendment goes into effect banning intoxication liquors.
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The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted during the First Red Scare by the United States Department of Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to capture and arrest suspected radical leftists
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The League of Nations in founded at Paris Peace Conference as a result of WW1.
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Two Italian-born American anarchists who were controversially convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the April 15, 1920 armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States.
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Radio station KDKA made the nation's first commercial broadcast
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The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.
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Harding is elected president of the United States.
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he "Teapot Dome scandal" was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding
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Reader's Digest is founded by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace.
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The Yankee Stadium is built. "The House That Ruth Built"
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President Warren G. Harding passes away of a heart attack.
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Coolidge is elected president of the U.S.
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The first Winter Olympics are held in France.
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George Gershwin releases Rhapsody in Blue.
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The National Origins Act is passed and is focused on limiting immigration.
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Hitler leads an attack to overtake the German government but fails.
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The novel The Great Gatsby is published by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Hilter publishes his novel Mein Kampf that discusses future plans for Germany.
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A school teacher by the name of John T. Scopes is thrown in jail for teaching kids about human evolution in school.
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Hughes releases "The Weary Blues"
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Ford announces 40 hour work weeks for their motor company.
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Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel.
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Earhart attempts to fly an airplane around the world.
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The Great Mississippi is the most destructive flood in U.S. history.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the world first transatlantic flight.
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Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of the year.
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The first movie with sound called "The Jazz Singer" is released.
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The Holland Tunnels opens and connects NYC to NJ improving traffic.
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin in 1928
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In the 1928 Election Herbert Hoover is elected President.
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Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance on a short film called Steamboat Willie.
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Seven members of the Chicago's North Side gang are murdered
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In late October 1929 the stock market crashed, wiping out 40 percent of the paper values of common stock.
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Ellis Island closes and shuts down immigration to the United States.
