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Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant, "convenes the first International Convention" of the "Negro Peoples of the World" in New York's Madison Square Garden.
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The Nineteenth Amendment is "ratified", granting women the right to vote.
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Republican Warren G. Harding is elected to the presidency, running against Democrat James Cox and Socialist Eugene Debs (who still ran despite campaigning from prison, where he is "incarcerated for violating the wartime Espionage Ac"t by giving an antiwar speech in 1918.)
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Congress passes immigration restrictions, for the first time creating a quota for European immigration to the United States
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Baseball's World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time; the New York Giants defeat the New York Yankees, five games to three.
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Yankee Stadium,is constructed in the Bronx, New York.
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President Warren G. Harding dies of stroke in a San Francisco hotel room. Vice President Calvin Coolidge takes his place in the role of presidency.
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The "market capitalization" of Ford Motor Company exceeds $1 billion.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
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Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching evolution, in violation of new state law banning the teaching of Darwin. He is eventually found guilty.
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KKKlan History WebsiteForty thousand Ku Klux Klansmen march on Washington, Penn. avenue.
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Charlie Chaplin's popular silent comedy The Gold Rush premieres .
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Buster Keaton's comedy classic The General premieres.
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"Aviator" Charles Lindbergh completes the first "solo transatlantic flight", landing his "Spirit of Saint Louis" in Paris 33 hours after departing from New York. Lindbergh becomes a national hero.
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New York Yankees star Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of the season, breaking his own record of 59. This record will not be broken for another thirty years.
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Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer, the first "talking" motion picture, premieres, marking the beginning of the end of the silent film era.
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Fifteen nations, including the United States, sign the Kellogg-Briand pact "outlawing" war.
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Herbert Hoover is elected to the presidency, beating Catholic Democrat Al Smith by a landslide.
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Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie premieres, introducing the world to a new animated character—Mickey Mouse.
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The American stock market collapses, bringing with it the Great Depression. The "Dow Jones Industrial Average"peaks in September 1929 at 381.17. This is a level that it will not reach again until 1954.
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In the "Saint Valentine's Day Massacre," the "single bloodiest fight" in a decade-long turf war between rival Chicago mobsters, members of Al Capone's gang murder six followers of rival "Bugs Moran".
