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The event was conceived by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. October – November: Typhoon Angela leaves the Philippines and Vietnam devastated, with 882 deaths and US$315 million in damage. November 4: Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister and Defence Minister, by Yigal Amir, an Israeli right-wing extremist.
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1917–1920 – First Red Scare, marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism; 1918 – President Wilson's Fourteen Points, which assures citizens that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and postwar peace in Europe; 1918 – Republicans win back Congress in the Midterm elections. 1918 – Armistice agreement ends World ...
June 15 – 1920 Duluth lynchings: Three African Americans are sprung from jail and lynched by a white mob in Duluth, Minnesota. June 21 – The 4.9 M L Inglewood earthquake shakes the Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII ( Severe ), causing more than $100,000 in damage.
The 1920s (pronounced "nineteen-twenties" often shortened to the "' 20s" or the "Twenties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1920, and ended on December 31, 1929. . Primarily known for the economic boom that occurred in the Western World following the end of World War I (1914–1918), the decade is frequently referred to as the "Roaring Twenties" or the "Jazz Age" in America and Western ...
1920s: The Spanish Flu. In the fall of 1918, a mutated version of the virus that claimed its first victims in the spring made its way around the world, causing the death rate to escalate quickly ...
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