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Warren G Harding Become United States President
In 1920, political insider and friend Harry Daugherty began to promote Harding for the Republican presidential nomination. Daugherty believed that Harding "looked like a president." Harding also signed the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, which allowed the president to submit a unified budget to Congress in the past, the separate cabinet departments had submitted their own budgets. -
Joseph stalin's rise to power
From 1921 onward Stalin flouted the ailing Lenin’s wishes, until, a year before his death, Lenin wrote a political "testament," since widely publicized, calling for Stalin’s removal from the secretary generalship; coming from Lenin, this document was potentially ruinous to Stalin’s career, but his usual luck and skill enabled him to have it discounted during his lifetime. -
Benito mussolini's rise to power
In 1922, Fascists were instructed to wear uniforms, including black shirts, when in squads that were modeled after Roman army groups. Soon after, several Italian cities were seized by Fascist squads, who also burned down Communist and Socialist offices. Refusing to pass martial law, King Victor Emmanuel III watched as thousands of armed Fascists entered Rome. Mussolini became Prime Minister, as well as Minister of the Interior and Minister for Foreign Affairs. -
Calvin Coolidge becomes United States President
He took office on August 3, 1923, following the sudden death of President Warren G. Harding. a former Republican governor of Massachusetts cleaned up the rampant corruption of the Harding administration and provided a model of stability and respectability for the American people in an era of fast-paced modernization. -
Gandhi gets arrested
in the early 1920s, Gandhi organized large scale campaigns of noncooperation that paralyzed the subcontinent's administration and led to his imprisonment, from 1922 to 1924. -
Vladimir Lenin Dies
Lenin suffered a stroke in May 1922, and then the second one in December of that year. On March 10, 1923, Lenin’s health was dealt another severe blow when he suffered an additional stroke, this one taking away his ability to speak and concluding his political work. Nearly 10 months later, on January 21, 1924, he passed away in the village now known as Gorki Leninskiye -
Queen elizabeth II is born
the current queen of England is born. Queen Elizabeth II was born Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary on April 21, 1926, in London, to Prince Albert, Duke of York. At the time of her birth, most people did not realize Elizabeth would someday become the queen of Great Britain. -
Michinomiya Hirohito becomes emperor of japan
Hirohito became emperor of Japan on December 25, 1926, following the death of his father. Made crown prince at age 15, he was Japan's longest-reigning monarch. He later attended a special institute which conditioned him to become emperor and was formally given the title of the crown prince on November 2, 1916. Years later, in 1921. He became the first crown prince of Japan to travel abroad and study, voyaging to Europe. -
Herbert Hoover becomes president
When President Coolidge decided not to run for another term, Hoover was nominated as the Republican candidate in 1928. He ran against New York governor Alfred E.In 1928, Hoover was elected president, but eight months later the stock market crash of 1929 occurred, ushering in the Great Depression.