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Gertrude Ederle is the first woman to swim the English Channel
An American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in five events. -
The IBM corporation is founded
Beginning, merger of three manufacturing businesses, a product of the times orchestrated by the financier, Charles Flint. -
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 Palmer Raids arrest and deport over 6,000 suspected "radicals"
The U.S. Department of Justice, under the leadership of the Attorney General Alexander M. Palmer, sought to arrest and/or deport all radicals and anarchists living in the United States. -
The 18th Amendment goes into effect
Which prohibited the manufacturing, transportation and sale of alcohol within the United States; it would go into effect the following January.F -
The 19th Amendment is ratified by Congress
The 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. -
The League of Nations is founded
An organization for international cooperation established on January 10, 1920, at the initiative of the victorious Allied Powers at the end of World War I. -
Radio station KDKA airs the first commercially broadcast program
Westinghouse Radio Station KDKA was a world pioneer of commercial radio broadcasting. -
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial concludes
The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti for the South Braintree murders was held in Dedham, Massachusetts, from May 31 to July 14, 1921. -
Reader's Digest is founded
An American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year. -
The Teapot Dome Scandal is uncovered
Warren G. Harding transferred supervision of the naval oil-reserve lands from the navy to the Department of the Interior in 1921, Fall secretly granted to Harry F. Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company exclusive rights to the Teapot Dome (Wyoming) reserves (April 7, 1922). -
Warren G. Harding is elected president
(November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29th President of the United States from 1921 until his death in 1923, a member of the Republican Party. -
President Warren G. Harding died
Warren J. Harding, a pioneer rock climber who made the first ascent of Yosemite's towering El Capitan in 1958, a breakthrough that ushered in "big wall" climbing in America, has died. -
Adolf Hitler leads a failed attempt to overthrow the German government (Beer Hall Putsch)
From November 8 to November 9, 1923, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and his followers staged the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, a failed takeover of the government in Bavaria, a state in southern Germany. -
The first Winter Olympic are held
The first Winter Olympics kick off in the Alpine village of Chamonix, France. -
George Gershwin releases "Rhapsody in Blue"
American composer George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects. -
The National Origins Act is passed limiting immigration
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. -
Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
Seven months after being released from Landsberg jail, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler publishes the first volume of his personal manifesto, Mein Kampf. -
Scopes Monkey Trial begins in Dayton, TN
A nationally-famous Tennessee court case that upheld a state law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools in that state in 1925. -
The Great Mississippi Food displaces 700,000 people
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight
Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in history, flying his Spirit of St. Louis from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France. -
Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs
Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of the 1927 season and with it sets a record that would stand for 34 years. -
The Holland Tunnel connecting NYC and NJ opens
The Holland Tunnel is one of three vehicular crossings between Manhattan and New Jersey, the others being the Lincoln Tunnel and the George Washington Bridge. -
The first film with sound "The Jazz Singer" debuts
The first feature film originally presented as a talkie was The Jazz Singer, released in October 1927. -
Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin
Fleming’s serendipitous discovery of penicillin changed the course of medicine and earned him a Nobel Prize. -
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. -
Langston Hughes publishes his first set of poems in his The Weary Blues
First published in 1921 in The Crisis — official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) — "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", which became Hughes's signature poem, was collected in his first book of poetry The Weary Blues (1926). -
Chicago's St. Valentine'Day Massacre
Murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang. -
Stock market crashes on "black Tuesday"
Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. -
President Calvin Coolidge is elected president
He became president after Warren G. Harding in 1923. -
The Great Gatsby is published by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. -
Amelia Earhart attempts to fly around the world
She became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and the first person ever to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland. -
Ellis Island closes as an immigration point to the U.S.
The gateway to America, shuts it doors after processing more than 12 million immigrants since opening in 1892. T -
Herbert Hoover is elected president
An American engineer, businessman, and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression. -
First game in the newly built Yankee Stadium is played
The ballpark in the Bronx opened April 2, 2009, when the Yankees hosted a workout day in front of fans from the Bronx community.
