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Warren G. Harding was president from 1921-1923. Before his notion he declared. "America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not the experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.” That quote gives what kind of president he was going to be. -
This is a timeline of the history in 1921-1941. There are many dates that are not included, but theses are a few dates that I researched.
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Congress approved the burial of an unidentified American soldier from World War I in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. -
The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War. The Battle of Blair Mountain went on from August to September -
Lila Bell and DeWitt Wallace begin publishing Reader's Digest -
Insulin was first used in the treatment of diabetes. Insulin was discovered by Sir Frederick G Banting, Charles H Best and JJR Macleod at the University of Toronto in 1921 and it was subsequently purified by James B Collip. -
Calvin Coolidge was president from 1923-1929. Coolidge received word that Warren G. Harding was dead and he was going to be president. Coolidge was seen as a distinguished character and more than for heroic achievement. He did great task with dignity many of the people said. -
Tennessee school teacher John T. Scopes' trial for teaching Darwin's "Theory of Evolution" -
The iron lung was invented by Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw at Harvard University -
Audiences see the first motion picture with sound The Jazz Singer -
Charles Lindbergh lands "Spirit of St. Louis" in Paris. He successfully completing the first trans-Atlantic flight. -
Ford Motor Company celebrates as the 15 millionth Model T rolls off its Highland Park, MI, assembly line -
The first mechanical TV station was called W3XK and was created by Charles Francis Jenkins -
Herbert Hover was president from 1929 to 1933. As president Hover brought luminous reputation as an engineer, administrator, and humanitarian as many people said. He declared war on London, Germany on his 40th birthday. That was one of his big things he did as president. -
Future Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King is born in his grandfather's house in Atlanta, Georgia. -
Hans von Ohain of Germany was the designer of the first operational jet engine -
3M employee Richard Drew invents Scotch Brand Cellulose Tape. -
The London Naval Reduction Treaty is signed into law by the United States, Great Britain, Italy, France, and Japan -
Jacob Schick Invents the Electric Razor -
Ernst Ruska at the University of Berlin, along with Max Knoll, combined these characteristics and built the first transmission electron microscope -
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is established to stimulate banking and business. -
The New Deal social and economic programs are passed by the United States Congress. The gold standard was dropped on April 19 and ratified during the time of this session on June 5. -
The Civilian Conservation Corps is authorized under the Federal Unemployment Relief Act. During the succeeding nine years and would provide work for two and one-half million men and help construct many national park. Many other projects also -
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is established with the signing of the Securities Exchange Act into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
The Social Security Act is passed by Congress as part of the New Deal legislation -
Grote Reber built the first dish antenna radio telescope -
American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart disappears over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to circumnavigate the globe. She completely goes off grid. -
The Naval Expansion Act passes. -
Albert Einstein alerts Franklin D. Roosevelt to an A-bomb opportunity, which led to the creation of the Manhattan Project. Six years earlier on October 17,1933 Einstein had arrived as a fugitive from Nazi Germany. -
Designed by Igor Sikorsky and built by the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Division of the United Aircraft Corporation -
Whittle, who registered a patent for the turbojet engine in 1930, received that recognition. They did not perform a flight test until 1941.