WORLD IN 20's

Some historical reference marks

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January 7 - Forces of Russian White general Kolcak surrender in Krasnojarsk
January 10 - League of Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I.
January 15 - Prohibition goes into effect
January 16 - Prohibition begins in USA. Many liquor-loving Americans move to France.
February 24 - Adolf Hitler presents his national socialist program in Munich
May 17 - First flight of KLM, Dutch air company, from Amsterdam to London.
May 30 - In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc as a saint.
Jeanne d'Arc is canonized.
July 25 - Telecommunications: first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast.
August 18 - Women gain the right to vote in the United States.
September 29 - First domestic radio sets come to stores in USA – Westinghouse radio costs $10
September 29 - Adolf Hitler's first public political speech in Austria
November 2 - Westinghouse company begins its radio program in Pittsburg, USA

October 28 - In Italy, with the March on Rome, Fascism obtains power and Mussolini becomes prime minister.
December 30 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is formed.

February 16 - Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.

January - Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin begins to purge his rivals to clear way for his leadership.
January 25 - The first Winter Olympic Games are inaugurated (Chamonix in the French Alps)
February 14 - IBM corporation founded.
April 1 - Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch." However he was only in jail for nine months.
December 30 - Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies.

July 18 - Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
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July 23 - Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
August 18 - A weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the Weather Bureau Office in Washington, D.C.
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January 7 - First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London
April 7 - Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Commerce Secretary Hoover which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television.
May - Philo Farnsworth transmits first experimental electronic television pictures
May 11 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the "Academy" in "Academy Awards," is founded.
May 20-May 21 Non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris by Charles Lindbergh.
May 23 - The first demonstration of television before a live audience. Nearly 600 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers view the demonstration at the Bell Telephone Building in New York.
May 27 - Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing Ford Model Ts and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model As.
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January 10 - USSR expels Leo Tolstoy
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February 14 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven gangsters rivalling Al Capone are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.
February 18 - First Academy Awards are announced
October 24 - Black Thursday, beginning of the Great Depression
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January 6 - The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
February 18 - While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
April 5 - In an act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.
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