Events
women won the
right to votethen the adoption
of the 19th amendmentprohibition
began in the
united statesthe Irish Free State
was declared after
a five-year fight for
independence from BritainBenito Mussolini marched
on Rome with 30,000 men
and brought his fascist party
to power in ItalyKemal Ataturk founded
modern Turkey, and the
tomb of King Tut was discoveredAdolf Hitler was jailed
after a failed coup in
Germany.The Charleston swept
the nation, and Time
magazine was founded.In 1924, the firs
t Olympic Winter
Games took place
in ChamonixVladimir Lenin died;
the trial of Richard Leopold
and Nathan Loeb shocked
and riveted the country.Flapper dresses were
all the rage for modern
women, and those women
were called flappersHitler's "Mein Kampf"
was published, as was
F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."In this year mid-decade,
actor Rudolph Valentino
died suddenly at the age of 31,Richard Byrd and Roald
Amundsen began their
legendary race to be the
first to fly over the North Pole,Last but certainly not least
, A.A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh"
was published, which brought
the adventures of Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore,
Christopher Robin to generations of children.The year 1927 was a
red-letter one:
Babe Ruth set a home run
record that would stand for 70 years;Charles Lindbergh flew
solo across the Atlantic Ocean
in the "Spirit of St. Louis";
the BBC was founded.That great thing, sliced bread
, was invented in 1928, along
with bubble gumIf that wasn't enough,
the first Mickey Mouse cartoon
was shownIn the last year of the '20s
, Richard Byrd and Floyd
Bennett flew over the South Pole,the murder of seven
members of the Moran
Irish gang in Chicago
became infamous as the
St. Valentine's Day Massacre.Bessie Coleman became
the first female African-American pilot,
there was extreme inflation in Germany,
and the lie detector was invented.
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