Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
May 1 – 1920 Major League Baseball season: The Brooklyn Robins and the Boston Braves play to a 1–1 tie in 26 innings, recording the longest single game in MLB history. May 2 – The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1920 – First radio broadcasts, by KDKA in Pittsburgh and WWJ in Detroit; 1920 – Volstead Act; 1920 – Esch–Cummins Act; 1920 – Economy collapses. The Depression of 1920–21 begins. 1920 – National Football League is formed; 1920 – 1920 U.S. presidential election: Warren G. Harding elected president, and Calvin Coolidge vice president.
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 ...
1920 (United States) Clothing Workers' Lockout occurred. [30] 2 January 1920 (United States) The U.S. Bureau of Investigation began carrying out the nationwide Palmer Raids. View of Matewan, West Virginia. Matewan Historic District, a National Historic Landmark, was the site of the Battle of Matewan in May 1920 during a coal miners' strike.
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 ...
June – August: Soviet forces launch Operation Bagration on the Eastern Front, the biggest defeat in German military history. July 20: Adolf Hitler survives the 20 July plot to assassinate him led by Claus von Stauffenberg. August 19 – 25: Liberation of Paris. September 19: The Continuation War ends.
Fast-forward 100 years to news that was eerily similar. The first coronavirus cases were reported in China just before the dawn of a new decade, and the pandemic continues, having killed an ...
The book covers events in the United States between November 11, 1918 (the end of World War I) and November 13, 1929 (which Allen described as the culmination of the Wall Street crash of 1929). Allen, who identified himself as a "restrospective journalist" rather than a historian, warns that "A contemporary history is bound to be anything but ...