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IBM was founded. It started as CTR but was renamed to IBM in 1924.
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The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted during the First Red Scare by the United States Department of Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to capture and arrest suspected radical leftists.
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The 18th amendment is the only amendment to be repealed from the constitution. This unpopular amendment banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States.
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The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organisation founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.
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The 19th amendment granted women the right to vote.
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Station KDKA made the nation's first commercial broadcast (a term coined by Conrad himself). They chose that date because it was election day, and the power of radio was proven when people could hear the results of the Harding-Cox presidential race before they read about it in the newspaper.
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Harding was the 29th president of the United States. He was popular but lost this popularity due to many scandals.
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The authorities concluded that the behavior of Sacco and Vanzetti meant that the men were guilty of something—presumably the payroll murders. The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti for the South Braintree murders was held in Dedham, Massachusetts.
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DeWitt Wallace started the magazine while he was recovering from shrapnel wounds received in World War I. He started it to collect various articles from other sources and combine them into one magazine.
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During the Teapot Dome scandal, Albert B. Fall, who served as secretary of the interior in President Warren G. Harding's cabinet, is found guilty of accepting a bribe while in office.
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In the historic first game, the Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox 4-1.
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Harding dies of a heart attack
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John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was an American politician and the 30th President of the United States.
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Approximately two thousand Nazis were marching to the Feldherrnhalle, in the city center, when they were confronted by a police cordon, which resulted in the death of 16 Nazis and four police officers.
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The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota.
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Rhapsody in Blue is 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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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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Ellis Island was an immigration point into the United States that processed 12 million immigrants from 1892 to 1924.
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The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that 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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Mein Kampf (My Struggle) is 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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John Scopes is accused of violating the Butler law in Tennessee by teaching human evolution. The trial was a publicity stunt for Dayton, Tennessee.
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Ford wrote in a statement, "It is high time to rid ourselves of the notion that leisure for workmen is either lost time or a class privilege."
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"The Weary Blues" is a collection of poems by American poet Langston Hughes.
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Gertrude Ederle was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in five events.
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The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in the history of the United States, with 27,000 square miles inundated up to a depth of 30 feet.
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Charles Lindbergh, in his plane "Spirit of St. Louis", made the first flight across the Atlantic ocean from Long Island, New York to Paris, France.
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Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in a season
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The Holland Tunnel is a vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River. It connects Manhattan in New York City, New York, to the east, and Jersey City, New Jersey, to the west.
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The movie used Warner Brothers' Vitaphone sound-on-disc technology to reproduce the musical score and sporadic episodes of synchronized speech.
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Fleming discovered Penicillin when returning from holiday. He noticed that there was no bacterial growth in his mold petri dish.
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Mickey Mouse debuted publicly in the short film Steamboat Willie.
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In Lincoln Park, Chicago, five members of the North Side gang and two others were lined up in a garage and killed by four assailants.
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Hoover had many campaigns, which were overshadowed by the Great Depression.
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Called "Black Tuesday", the stock market crash of 1929 lasted until October 24, 1929 when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange dropped.
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Left from Miami with Fred Noonan as her navigator, she lost communication in July.
