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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 ...
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 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.
January 27 – Ross Bagdasarian Sr., actor, pianist, singer, songwriter, record producer and creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks (died 1972) January 28 – Gabby Gabreski, American fighter ace (d. 2002) January 30 John C. Elliott, politician and 39th Governor of American Samoa (1952) (died 2001) Fred Korematsu, Japanese-American civil rights ...
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 ...
July 26: Creation of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. August 14 – 15: Partition of India. Independence of India and Pakistan and beginning of First Indo-Pakistani War. November – December: Three Bell Labs engineers give the first public demonstration of the transistor, an electrical component that could control, amplify, and generate ...
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 ...
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution takes effect, August 18, 1920 Warren G. Harding becomes the 29th president of the United States on March 4, 1921 Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th president of the United States upon the death of President Warren Harding on August 2, 1923