February 14, 1929 Gangsters working for Al Capone kill seven rivals in the act known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Jan 21, 2015
February 14, 1929 Gangsters
working for Al Capone kill seven rivals in the act known as the St. Valentine's Day
Massacre
1925 Charlie Chaplin’s
popular silent comedy Gold Rush released
October 29, 1929 Postwar
prosperity ends in the Stock Market
crash
1920s Harlem
Renaissance
The Charleston is a dance that became
popular in the 1920′s, during the era of jazz music, speakeasies,
and flappers
FACTS about this decade:
• Life expectancy: Male 53.6, Female 54.6 • 343,000 in military (down from 1,172,601 in 1919)
•Illiteracy rate reached a new low: 6% of the population
June 17, 1928 Amelia Earhart becomes the first
woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean
1922 Ulysses by James
Joyce is published; U.S. Post Office burns
copies
1926 A.A. Milne Publishes
Winnie-the-Pooh
September 19, 1928
First Mickey Mouse talking film, Steamboat Willie, released by Walt
Disney
1922 Tomb of King Tut Discovered
FACTS about this decade:•Average annual earnings $1236; •Teacher's salary $970
1922 Soviet States Merge into U.S.S.R.
August 8, 1925 Forty thousand Ku Klux Klansmen march on Washington, their white-hooded procession filling Pennsylvania Avenue
January 10, 1920: League of Nations Established. The League ultimately proved incapable of preventing aggression by the Axis powers in the 1930s.
October 6, 1927 The advent of talking pictures emerges; Al
Jolson in The Jazz Singer debuts in New
York City
1927 Babe Ruth
Makes Home-Run Record
Art Deco is an influential visual arts design style which first appeared in France during the 1920s
FACTS about this decade: It took 13 days to reach California from New York; There were 387,000 miles of paved road
1922 Gandhi
sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience
1925 Hitler publishes
Mein Kampf
Art movements of the 1920s included the
modernist movement, abstract
expressionism, surrealism, and
realism
1920s slang used for "girls or women": a broad, a bunny, a canary (well, one who could sing), a charity girl (one who was sexually promiscuous), a dame, a doll, cat's meow, cat's whiskers
August 10, 1927
Work on Gutzon Borglum’s gigantic
Presidential sculpture at Mount Rushmore began
1927 Leon Trotsky kicked out of
Russia's Communist Party
May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh leaves Roosevelt Field, New York, on
the first non-stop transatlantic flight in history
1921 Albert Einstein wins Nobel Prize for Photoelectric
Effect
1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby published
November 15, 1926 The NBC Radio Network, formed by Westinghouse, General Electric, and RCA, opens with twenty-four stations
November 28, 1925 The Grand Ole Opry transmits
its first radio broadcast
1920 World population was 1.8 billion
1920s One-quarter of the world's
population fell under British rule
The Algonquin Round Table, (also known as The Vicious Circle), an informal group of American literary men and women, met for lunch on weekdays at a large round table in the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s and '30s. Many of the best-known writers, journalists, and artists in New York City were in this group. Among them were Franklin P. Adams, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, Marc Connelly, Russell Crouse, Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman, Harpo Marx, Dorothy Parker, Harold Ross, Robert Sherwood, and Alexander Woollcott.
July 10, 1924 The Scopes Trial or "Monkey Trial" begins, later resulting in a conviction for John T. Scopes, for teaching Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory at a Dayton, Tennessee high school, which violated Tennessee law. Scopes was fined $100 for the charge.
Harry Houdini was the great escape
artist of the 1920s
The Lost Generation was the name Gertrude Stein gave to American expatriot writers, poets, and artists living in Europe during the 1920s. Famous members of the Lost Generation include Cole Porter, Gerald Murphy, Patrick Henry Bruce, Waldo Pierce, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson.
1927 Sacco and Venzetti Executed
May 10, 1924 J. Edgar Hoover is appointed
to lead the Federal Bureau ofInvestigation
February 14, 1924
The IBM corporation is founded
FACTS about this decade
•106,521,537 people in the United States •2,132,000 unemployed
• Unemployment 5.2%
1920 – 1933 Prohibition
1928 Penicillin Discovered
January 25, 1924 The first Winter Olympic
Games are held in the French Alps
in Chamonix, France
March 2, 1923 Time Magazine is
published for the first time, featuring on its
cover Joseph G. Cannon, the retired Speaker of the
United States House of Representatives
1921 Margaret Sanger forms
the American Birth Control League, today’s
modern Planned Parenthood
In the 1920s, a new woman was born. She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. She was a flapper.
1929 First Academy
Awards
1927 Actress Mae West :
Obscene
May 30, 1922 The Lincoln Memorial is
dedicated
September 8, 1921 First Miss America pageant held in
Atlantic City
1924 Nellie Ross of Wyoming
and Miriam Ferguson of Texas are elected governors of their states
February 5, 1922
Reader's Digest is first published
Ford stops production of the “Model T” in 1927 Thanks to Henry
Ford and mass production, one could buy a Ford for only $290.00
The Fascists (Mussolini) took power in 1922
August 18, 1920 The 19th
Amendment gives Women
the right to Vote