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The 1920's and 1930s

By Noah Ater

  • the United States' population increases

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  • The League of Nations is established

  • The first performance of the play, Beyond the Horizon, is held.

  • Women are given the right to vote

  • The AFL is formed

  • Warren G. Harding runs for President

  • The United States Congress paases the Emergency Quota Act

  • A Congressional resolution by both houses is signed by President Warren G. Harding,

  • The proposal for a trail along the Allegheny Mountain ridges is put forward.

  • The first Miss America pageant is held in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

  • Margaret Gorman wins the first Miss America pageant

  • The Limitation on Armaments Congress convenes in Washington, D.C.

  • Reader's Digest is founded

  • The Armaments Congress ends

  • The Teapot Dome scandal begins

  • Construction begins on Yankee Stadium

  • The Lincoln Memorial is dedicatd in Washington D.C

  • The AFL is changed to NFL

  • The 12th century Aztec Indian ruins in New Mexico are proclaimed as a National Monument by President Warren G. Harding,

  • Time Magazine is published for the first time.

  • Warner Brothers Pictures is incorporated.

  • The first sound on film motion picture Phonofilm is shown

  • President Warren G. Harding dies in office after becoming ill following a trip to Alaska.

  • The first Winter Olympic Games are held in the French Alps in Chamonix, France.

  • The IBM corporation is founded during Valentines Dsy

  • J. Edgar Hoover is appointed to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

  • All Indians are designated citizens by legislation passed in the U.S. Congress

  • The Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial begins and would later convict John T. Scopes of teaching Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory at a Dayton, Tennessee high school, which violated Tennessee law. He is fined $100 for the charge.

  • Calvin Coolidge wins his first election as President

  • Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as the first woman governor of the United States in Wyoming.

  • Radiovision is born.

  • Lava Beds National Monument in California is designated by President Calvin Coolidge.

  • The Grand Ole Opry transmits its first radio broadcast.

  • Robert H. Goddard demonstrates the viability of the first liquid fueled rockets with his test in Auburn, Massachusetts.

  • Air Commerce Act is passed

  • The Sesqui-Centennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia

  • The NBC Radio Network is formed by Westinghouse, General Electric, and RCA, opening with twenty-four stations.

  • The Sesqui-Centennial Exposition sadly closes in Philadelphia

  • The civil war in China prompts one thousand United States marines to land in order to protect property of United States interests.

  • The Great Mississippi Flood occurs, affecting over 700,000.

  • The Great Mississippi Flood comes to an end

  • Charles Lindbergh leaves Roosevelt Field, New York on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in history.

  • First success in the invention of television occurs by American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth. The complete electronic television system would be patented three years later on August 26, 1930.

  • Work on the gigantic sculpture at Mount Rushmore begins.

  • The advent of talking pictures emerges. Al Jolson in the Jazz Singer debuts in New York City.

  • The Tennessee national military park known as Fort Donelson National Battlefield is created by legislation signed into law by President Calvin Coolidge.

  • The first appearance of Mickey and Minnie Mouse on film occurs

  • Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Herbert Hoover wins election as President of the United States with an Electoral College victory, 444 to 87 over Democratic candidate Alfred E. Smith,

  • The United States Congress approves the construction of Boulder, later named Hoover Dam.

  • Future Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King is born in his grandfather's house in Atlanta, Georgia.

  • In Chicago, Illinois, gangsters working for Al Capone kill seven rivals and citizens in the act known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

  • JC Penney opens its Store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, the last state in the Union to have one of their stores.

  • The Teapot Dome scandal comes to a close when Albert B. Fall, the former Secretary of the Interior, is convicted of accepting a $100,000 bribe for leasing the Elk Hills naval oil reserve.

  • Postwar prosperity ends in the 1929 Stock Market crash.

  • the invention of the televison is patented