TIMELINE

1920

• Bubonic Plague in India
• First Commercial Radio Broadcast Aired
• Harlem Renaissance Begins
• League of Nations Established
• Prohibition Begins in the U.S.
• Pancho Villa Retires
• Women Granted the Right to Vote in U.S.

1921

• "Fatty" Arbuckle Scandal
• Extreme Inflation in Germany
• Irish Free State Proclaimed
• Lie Detector Invented

1922

• Insulin Discovered
• Kemal Atatürk Founds Modern Turkey
• Tomb of King Tut Discovered
• Michael Collins Killed in Ambush
• Mussolini Marches on Rome
• The Reader's Digest Published

1923

• Charleston Dance Becomes Popular
• Hitler Jailed After Failed Coup
• Ruhr Occupied by French and Belgian Forces
• Talking Movies Invented
• Teapot Dome Scandal
• Time Magazine Founded

1924

• First Olympic Winter Games
• J. Edgar Hoover Appointed FBI Director
• Leopold and Loeb Murder a Neighbor Out of Boredom
• V.I. Lenin Dies

1925

• Flapper Dresses in Style
• Hitler Publishes Mein Kampf
• The Scopes (Monkey) Trial

1926

• A.A. Milne Publishes Winnie-the-Pooh
• First Assassination Attempt on Mussolini
• Houdini Dies After Being Punched
• Robert Goddard Fires His First Liquid-Fuel Rocket
• A Woman Swims the English Channel

1927

• Babe Ruth Makes Home-Run Record
• BBC Founded
• The First Talking Movie, The Jazz Singer
• Lindbergh Flies Solo Across the Atlantic
• Sacco and Venzetti Executed

1928

• Bubble Gum Invented
• First Mickey Mouse Cartoon
• First Oxford English Dictionary Published
• Kellogg-Briand Treaty Outlaws War
• Penicillin Discovered
• Sliced Bread Invented

1929

• Byrd and Bennett Fly Over South Pole
• Car Radio Invented
• First Academy Awards
• Stock Market Crashes
• St. Valentine's Day Massacre

Reference: 1920's Timeline [Online] Available at: < http://history1900s.about.com/od/timelines/tp/1920timeline.htm> [Accessed On 5th March]