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Elizabeth Magie's second patent on The Landlord's Game expired in September, 1941, and it is believed that after the expiration, she was no longer promoted as an inventor of Monopoly. [117] The game itself remained popular during the war, particularly in camps, and soldiers playing the game became part of the product's advertising in 1944. [118]
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 ...
A strategy game centered on the events of the Trojan War, blending myth and history. Warriors: Legends of Troy: 2011: 1200 BC: An action game set during the Trojan War, based on Homer’s Iliad. Battle for Troy: 2004: 1200 BC: A strategy game centered around the legendary Trojan War. Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses: 2000: 1200 BC
1920s: Alcohol Prohibition & Organized Crime. America's Temperance Movement achieved its primary goal Jan. 16, 1920, when the 18th Amendment's ban on making and selling intoxicating liquors took ...
Joseph J. Fern, Mayor of Honolulu from 1909 to 1915 and from 1917 to 1920 (born 1872) Robert Peary, Arctic explorer (born 1856) February 27 – William Sherman Jennings, 18th Governor of Florida from 1901 to 1905 (born 1863) March 1 John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1907 to 1920 (born 1842)
The history of contract bridge may be dated from the early 16th-century invention of trick-taking games such as whist.Bridge departed from whist with the creation of Biritch (or "Russian Whist") in the 19th century, and evolved through the late 19th and early 20th centuries to form the present game.
January 25: Premiere of the science-fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), in which the word "robot" was first used. February – March: Russia invades Georgia and incorporates it into the Soviet Union. March 4: Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as President of the United States. March 18: End of the Polish–Soviet War.
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 ...