1920-1929

  • woodrow wilson suffers a stroke

  • palmer raids begin

  • steel strike ends

  • Senate refuses to ratify the Versailles Treaty or authorize United States participation in the League of Nations.

  • 19th amendment is ratified

  • Warren G. Harding is elected to the presidency by a landslide

  • Sacco-Vanzetti Trial

  • Congress passes the Fordney-McCumber Tariff

  • President Warren G. Harding dies of stroke

  • john scope gets arrested

  • Forty thousand Ku Klux Klansmen march on Washington

  • Buster Keaton's comedy classic The General, considered by many to be the greatest silent film ever made, premieres.

  • Aviator Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo transatlantic flight

  • Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of the season

  • Kellogg-Briand pact "outlawing" war

  • Herbert Hoover is elected president

  • The stock market crashes

  • stock market crashes

  • saint valentines day massacre

  • More than 3.2 million people are unemployed

  • Texas congressman Wright Patman introduces legislation authorizing immediate payment of "bonus" funds to veterans of World War I

  • "Food riots" begin to break out in parts of the U.S.

  • New York's Bank of the United States collapses

  • First Modern Credit Card Introduced

  • Korean War Begins

  • Color TV Introduced

  • Car Seat Belts Introduced

  • First Playboy Magazine

  • Roger Bannister Breaks the Four-Minute Mile

  • Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat on a Bus

  • T.V. Remote Control Invented

  • Dr. Seuss Publishes The Cat in the Hat