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League of Nations
The league of nations was an intergovernmental organization that was founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference. -
19th Amendment is ratified
the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. -
KDKA
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. -
The Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding -
Warren G. Harding is Elected
Warren G. Harding is elected as America's 29th President -
Readers Digest
American general-interest family magazine founded by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace. -
First game at Yankee Stadium
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. -
President Calvin Coolidge is elected president
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. -
Rhapsody in Blue
musical composition by composer George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band, combines classical music with jazz-influences. commissioned by bandleader Paul Whitman -
Scopes Monkey Trial
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 -
Mein Kampf
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. -
The Weary Blues
"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 -
Gertrude Ederle swims the English Channel
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. -
First non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight
Charles Lindbergh completed the first non stop, solo trans Atlantic flight in history. He flew from long island, New York to Paris,France -
"The Jazz Singer"
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 -
Chicago's St,Valentine's Day Massacre
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 -
Stock Market Crashes on "Black Tuesday"
On this day, share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, being a big factor in the emergence of the Great Depression.
