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The International Business Machines Corporation is an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York with operations in over 170 countries.
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Congress ratified the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the manufacturing, transportation and sale of alcohol within the United States.
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A series of violent and abusive law-enforcement raids directed at leftist radicals and anarchists.
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The League of Nations was an organization for international cooperation established at the initiative of the victorious Allied Powers at the end of World War I.
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The 19th Amendment, which stated that “the rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex,” passed both houses of Congress and was sent to the states for ratification.
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Westinghouse Radio Station KDKA was a world pioneer of commercial radio broadcasting. Transmitting with a power of 100 watts on a wavelength of 360 meters.
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Warren G. Harding was the 29th president until his death 2 years later in 1923
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The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti for the South Braintree murders was held in Dedham, Massachusetts.
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Reader's Digest is an American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year
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Fall secretly granted to Harry F. Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company exclusive rights to the Teapot Dome reserves.
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In the historic first game, the Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox 4-1.
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President Warren G. Harding dies on August 2, 1923 of a Heart Attack
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John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was the 30th President of the United States.
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Hitler attempts to overthrow the German government in the abortive 'Beer Hall'.
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The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France.
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A 1924 musical composition by American composer George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects.
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A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians.
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The federal government shut down the Ellis Island immigrant reception station in New York Harbor.
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The Great Gatsby follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922.
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An American legal case in July 1925 where a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act.
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A 1925 autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany.
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After its publication, the book won several awards, and the prize money allowed Hughes to complete his college education.
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On August 6, 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
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Henry Ford made a groundbreaking change by being one of the first significant companies to change his work policy to 40-hour weeks with five working days.
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The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in the history of the United States.
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On May 21, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh lands his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of the 1927 season and with it sets a record that would stand for 34 years.
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The Holland Tunnel was the longest continuous underwater vehicular tunnel in the world.
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The first commercially successful full-length feature film with sound
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Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, made from the Penicillium notatum mold.
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Steamboat Willie was first released on November 18, 1928, in New York. It was co-directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.
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The murder of 7 members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang. The men were gathered at a Lincoln Park garage on the morning of Valentine's Day, where they were made to line up against a wall and shot by four unknown assailants.
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Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st president of the United States.
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Considered the worst economic event in world history. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged nearly 13 percent.
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Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland; she landed in Ireland nearly 15 hours later, becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
