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The IBM Corporation is founded
IBM was a merger of three manufacturing businesses, a product of the times put together by the financier, Charles Flint. From this beginning it created the company that Thomas Watson Sr. would mold into a global force in technology, management and culture. -
The Palmer Raids arrest and deport over 6,000 suspected ¨radical¨
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, mostly Italian and Eastern European immigrants and especially anarchists and communists, and deport them from the United States. -
The 18th Amendment goes into effect
The 18th Amendment prohibited the manufacture, transportation, and sale of intoxicating liquors. -
The League of Nations is Founded
League of Nations, an organization founded by Woodrow Wilson for international cooperation established on January 10, 1920, at the initiative of the victorious Allied Powers at the end of World War I. -
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial concludes
Sacco and Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists, they were executed for murder by the state of Massachusetts in 1927 on the basis of doubtful ballistics evidence . For countless observers throughout the world, they were convicted because of their political beliefs and ethnic background. -
The 19th Amendment is ratified by Congress
The 19th amendment granted woman the right to vote. -
Radio station KDKA airs the first commercially broadcast program
KDKA was a world pioneer of commercial radio broadcasting. Transmitting with a power of 100 watts on a wavelength of 360 meters, KDKA began scheduled programming with the Harding-Cox Presidential election returns -
Langston Hughes publishes his first set of poems in The weary Blues
A nationally known magazine was “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” which appeared in Crisis in 1921. In 1925, he was awarded the First Prize for Poetry from the magazine Opportunity for “The Weary Blues,” which gave its title to this, his first book of poems. -
Warren G. Harding is elected for president
He won the general election in a landslide, promising a “return to normalcy” after the hardships of World War I (1914-1918). As president, he favored pro-business policies and limited immigration. Harding died suddenly in San Francisco in 1923. -
Reader's Digest is Founded
Company started by DeWitt Wallace in a basement in New York, the paper made an initial run of 1,500 copies. At the end of the 20th century it had the largest circulation of any publication in the world. -
First Game in the newly built Yankee Stadium is played
In the first game in the new Yankee stadium the Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox 4-1. It was historic because the Yanks were the American League champions, they had the leading gate attraction in Babe Ruth, and the new stadium had by far the largest seating capacity of all Big League parks. -
President Warren G. Harding dies
President Warren G. Harding dies of a heart attack at 57 years old. -
President Calvin Coolidge is elected president
John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was the 30th President of the United States. -
Adolf Hitler leads a failed attempt to overthrow the German government (Beer Hall Putsch)
Adolf Hitler and his followers staged the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, a failed takeover of the government in Bavaria, a state in southern Germany. -
The National Origins Act is passed limiting immigration
The National Origins Act of 1924 sharply restricted the number of immigrants allowed to enter the U.S., and it also set immigration quotas for each European nation. -
The First Winter Olympics are held
Hosted in Chamonix in the French Alps the first winter olympics was held. There was a total of six sports. It was a huge success in 1928 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially designated the Winter Games, staged in St. Moritz, Switzerland, as the second Winter Olympics. -
George Gershwin releases "Rhapsody in Blue"
Rhapsody in Blue is a musical composition by American composer George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects. -
The Great Gatsby is published by F. Scott Fitzgerald
In a short term the great gatsby had a message that the American dream is illusory. -
Scopes Monkey Trial begins in Dayton, Tn
“Monkey Trial” begins with John Thomas Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. The law was passed in March, it made it a misdemeanor punishable by fine to “teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.” -
Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf translates to My Struggle. It is a 1925 autobiographical book by Adolf Hitler that describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. -
The Ford Motor Company announces the creation of a 40 hour work week
Ford Motor Company becomes one of the first companies in America to adopt a five-day, 40-hour week for workers in its automotive factories. The policy would be extended to Ford’s office workers the following August. -
Gertrude Ederle is the first woman to swim the English Channel
Gertrude was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in five events. She was the first woman to swim across the English Channel in 1926. -
The Great Mississippi Flood displaces 700,000 people
In the great Mississippi flood it rained unusually for a couple of months. Ten feet of water covered towns up to 60 miles away from the river. At the end of the flood it affected the area of 27,000 square mile. -
The Teapot Dome Scandal is uncovered
This scandal surrounded the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall. After Pres. Warren G. Harding transferred supervision of the naval oil-reserve lands from the navy to the Department of the Interior. -
Charles Lindbergh makes the first non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight
Charles Lindbergh is an American pilot who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic and to link the 2 major cities. The Spirit of St.Louis takes Lindbergh from New York to Paris. -
Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs
In 1927, Babe Ruth set the first truly long-term single season home run standard. He hit his 60th home run of the 1927 season, it set a record that would stand for 34 years. -
The Holland Tunnel connecting NYC and NJ opens
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. -
The first film with sound "The Jazz Singer" debuts
The Jazz Singer, the first commercially successful full-length feature film with sound, debuts at the Blue Mouse Theater at 1421 5th Avenue in Seattle. The movie uses Warner Brothers' Vitaphone sound-on-disc technology to reproduce the musical score and sporadic episodes of synchronized speech. -
Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin
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. -
Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance in the short film "Steamboat Willie"
Mickey Mouse made his movie debut in Steamboat Willie, one of the earliest animated cartoons. This seven-minute film, directed by Walt Disney, was the first to combine animation technology with synchronized sound. -
Chicago´s St.Valentine´s Day Massacre
The Chicago St.Valentine´s Day massacre was the name given to the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang. The men were at a Lincoln Park garage on the morning of Valentine's Day, they were made to line up against a wall and shot by four unknown assailants -
Herbert Hoover is elected president
Hoover served as the 31st president of the United States. He was the president the year the economy crashed. -
Stock Market Crashes on ´Black Tuesday´
Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. In the aftermath of Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression (1929-39). -
Amelia Earhart attempts to fly around the world
Amelia Mary Earhart, wast the first woman to attempt to fly solo across the Atlantic ocean. She disappeared on July 2, 1937 somewhere in the Pacific after losing radio contact with the Coast Guard ship that she was in contact with. -
Ellis Island closes as an immigration point to the United States
From 1892 to 1924, the station processed some 12 million immigrants there. The closure came after Arne Peterssen, a seaman detained for having overstayed his shore leave, became the last person to be processed there. He returned to his native Norway.
