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The league of nations was an intergovernmental organization that was founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference.
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the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.
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station KDKA made the nation's first commercial broadcast. They chose the date because it was election day, and the power of radio was proven when people could hear the results of the Harding-Cox presidential race before they read about it in the newspaper.
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The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding
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Warren G. Harding is elected as America's 29th President
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American general-interest family magazine founded by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace.
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Yankee Stadium was a stadium located in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. It was the home ballpark of the New York Yankees, one of the city's Major League Baseball franchises, from 1923 to 1973 and then from 1976 to 2008.
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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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musical composition by composer George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band, combines classical music with jazz-influences. commissioned by bandleader Paul Whitman
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American legal case in which a substitute teacher was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state funded school
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1925 autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany.
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"The Weary Blues" is a poem by American poet Langston Hughes. Written in 1925, "The Weary Blues" was first published in the Urban League magazine
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Gertrude Caroline Ederle was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in five events. she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
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Charles Lindbergh completed the first non stop, solo trans Atlantic flight in history. He flew from long island, New York to Paris,France
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The first feature-length motion picture with not only a synchronized recorded music score but also lip-synchronous singing and speech in several isolated sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of sound films and ended the silent film era
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This event was the murder of 7 members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang. They were lines up against a wall and shot by 4 unknown assailants
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On this day, share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, being a big factor in the emergence of the Great Depression.