the 1920's?

Question

1. who were popular authors?
2. what were the cars like?
3. what events happened in ENGLAND in the 1920's?
4. what did they wear?

thankx a millions

Answer 1

The person above me made my answer moot.

Answer 2

i love the twenties

anyway one of the most popular authors of the twenties was fitzgerald.....his first novel he wrote when he was only twenty is called this side of paradise and was a HUGE sucess... all the women and impressionable girls at that time read it like it was there bible.....

cars - they were still fairly new- u need to look at pics online

the clothing was dramatic and almost overnight became different and faddish..... before this time women kept things more modest and went along with what was acceptable...but the twenties brought about a revoultion of makeup.... dropped waistlines.... getting rid of corsets or at least lookiong like they had no corset on....wearing clothing/dresses tht moved alot..... they favored the appearance of a boy figure... many women would bind down there breasts to give a flatter appearance......

these women were flappers....

in england deindustrialization began in the twenties

and by the way...anyone can go to the encylopdia online and cut and paste

Answer 3

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Answer 4

popular american authors...
willa cather, john dos passos, f. scott fitzgerald, robert frost, ernest hemingway, langston hughes, sinclair lewis, carl sandburg
popular european authors...
agatha christie, arthur conan doyle, e.m. forster, aldous huxley, james joyce, d.h. lawrence, george bernard shaw, evelyn waugh, h.g. wells, virginia woolf, and william butler yeats.

automobiles...
"...during this time, henry ford revolutionized industry by speeding up production...he was also one of the first employers to view his workers as customers...."
"...easy credit led to increased consumerism. advertisements abounded, encouraging consumers to buy luxury items, like cars and radios..."
http://www.english.ilstu.edu/separry/sinclairlewis/faq4.html
every driver learned to change tires...since they blew out frequently...
what was in the glove box...
http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/exhibition/exhibition_8_7.html

england...
end of world war I
"...the irish free state gains independence from the united kingdom in 1922..."
"...first labour government of ramsay macdonald formed in the united kingdom..."
"...women's suffrage movement continues to make gains as women obtain full voting rights in england in 1928; and women begin to enter the workplace in larger numbers..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920s
the mood in britain after the war ended in 1918...
http://www.fashion-era.com/1920s_life_between_the_wars.htm





fashion...
"...like men, it became more common for women to smoke and drink...women's hemlines jumped from their ankles to their knees, and their dresses and swimsuits were much skimpier. bobbed hair also became popular..."
http://www.english.ilstu.edu/separry/sinclairlewis/faq4.html
women's fashion....
sportswear, dresses that allowed kicking up you leg in dances, two-piece sweater sets...
http://tirocchi.stg.brown.edu/514/story/fashion_twenties.html
men's fashion...
copying "heros", the collegiate style, creases & cuffs on pants...
http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/men.html
women...
beading on dresses, the clothe ("bell") hat for day wear, the "tube"...
http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/flapper.html
the flapper...
fashion & lifestyle...
http://www.arikiart.com/1920s/

happy to send these links.
always like the '20s roarrrrrrr!

Answer 5

i hated the music in that time

Answer 6

January
January 3 - Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time.
January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk.
January 9 - Britain announces it will build 1,000,000 homes for war veterans. The promise will never be fulfilled in full.
January 9 - Thousands of onlookers watch as "The Human Fly" George Polley, climbs the New York Woolworth Building. He has reached the 30th floor when a policeman arrests him for climbing without a permit
January 16 - Prohibition begins in the United States with the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution coming into effect.
January 16 - Allies demand that the Netherlands extradite the German Kaiser, who has fled there.
January 19 - The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
January 22 - The Australian Country Party is officially formed.
January 23 - The Netherlands refuses to extradite the German Kaiser.
January 28 - The Spanish legion is founded and stationed in North Africa to fight rebels in Morocco.
January 28 - Turkey gives up the Ottoman Empire and all non-Turkish areas.

[edit] February

February 1: RCM Police formed.February 1 - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin operations.
February 2 - Estonia's independence is recognised.
February 2 - France occupies Memel.
February 2 - Sayyid Muhammad, Khan of Khiva abdicates.
February 9 - League of Nations gives Spitzbergen to Norway.
February 10 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic engagement of Poland with the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
February 14 - The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
February 17 -A woman named Anna Anderson tries to commit suicide in Berlin and is taken to mental hospital, where she claims she is Anastasia.
February 22 - In Emeryville, California, the first dog racing track to employ an imitation rabbit opens.
February 24 - Adolf Hitler presents his National Socialist program in Munich.

[edit] March
March - World's first peaceful establishment of a social democratic government takes place in Sweden. Hjalmar Branting takes over when Nils Edén resigns.
March 1 - Hungarian Admiral and statesman Miklós Horthy becomes the Regent of Hungary
March 1 - The United States Railroad Administration returns control of American railroads to its constituent railroad companies.
March 13-March 17 - Wolfgang Kapp fails in his coup attempt in Germany due to public resistance and a general strike.
March 15 - Red Army of Ruhr, communist army 60.000 men strong, formed
March 19 - US Congress refuses to ratify Versailles Treaty.
March 23 - Admiral Horthy declares that Hungary is a monarchy without anyone on the throne.
March 26 - German government asks France for permission to use its own troops against rebellious Ruhr Red Army in the French-occupied area.
March 26 - The Black and Tans special constables arrive in Ireland
March 28 - The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 hits the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
March 29 - Sir William Robertson, who enlisted in 1877, becomes a field marshal in the British Army, the first man to rise to this rank from private
March 31 - Government of Ireland Act 1920 is presented in British parliament.

[edit] April
April 2 - German army marches to Ruhr to fight Red Ruhr Army.
April 4 - Jerusalem pogrom of April, 1920 ? Violence between Arabic and Jewish resident in Jerusalem ? governor declares the state of siege
April 6 - The short-lived Far Eastern Republic declared in eastern Siberia
April 11 - Mexican Revolution - Alvaro Obregon flees from Mexico City during a trial intended to ruin his reputation - he flees to Guerrero where he joins Fortunato Maycotte
April 19 - Germany and Bolshevist Russia agree to the exchange of prisoners of war.
April 20 - Alvaro Obregon announces in Chilpancingo that he intends to fight against the rule of Venustiano Carranza
April 23 - National council in Turkey denounces the government of sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution.
April 24 - Polish-Soviet War: Polish and Anti-Soviet Ukrainian troops attack the Red Army in Soviet Ukraine.
April 26 - the Khorezm People's Soviet Republic is officially created by Bolshevist Russia as the successor to the Khanate of Khiva.

[edit] May
May 2 - The first game of the ***** National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.
May 7 - Polish-Soviet War: Polish troops occupy Kyiv. The government of Ukrainian People's Republic returns to the city.
May 7 - Venustiano Carranza leaves Mexico City in a large train.
May 7 - Treaty of Moscow (1920): Soviet Russia recognizes independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
May 9 - Alvaro Obregon's troops enter Mexico City
May 15 - Maria Bochkareva executed in Soviet Russia
May 16 - Referendum in Switzerland is favorable to joining League of Nations.
May 16 - In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc as a saint.
May 17 - French and Belgian troops leave the cities they have occupied in Germany.
May 17 - First flight of KLM, Dutch air company, from Amsterdam to London.
May 20 - Venustiano Carranza arrives in San Antonio Tlaxcalantongo. Troops of Rodolfo Herrera attack him at night and shoot him
May 24 - Venustiano Carranza is buried in Mexico City - all of his mourning allies are arrested. Adolfo de la Huerta is elected provisional president
May 27 - Tomáš Masaryk becomes president of Czechoslovakia.
May 29 - Great Horncastle flood. 20 people killed.
May 29 - The Snorkel was invented in Greenland.

[edit] June
June 4 - Treaty of Trianon, Treaty of Peace between The Allied and Hungary.
June 12 - Polish-Soviet War: Red Army retakes Kyiv.
June 13 - The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via parcel post
June 15 - New border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark.
June 22 - Greece attacks Turkish troops.

[edit] July
July 1 - Germany declares its neutrality in the war between Poland and Soviet Russia
July 2 - Polish-Soviet War: Red Army continues offensive into Poland.
July 10 - Arthur Meighen becomes Canada's ninth prime minister.
July 12 - Bolshevist Russia recognizes independent Lithuania.
July 13 - London County Council bars foreigners from council jobs.
July 14 - France declares that Faisal I of Syria is deposed and occupies Damascus and Aleppo
July 17 - Republic of Mirdite proclaimed near Albanian-Serbian border with Yugoslav support
July 22 - Polish-Soviet War: Poland sues for peace with Bolshevist Russia.
July 25 - First transatlantic two-way radio broadcast?
July 26 - Pancho Villa takes over Sabina and contacts de la Huerta to offer his conditional surrender. He signs his surrender in July 28
July 29 - The United States Bureau of Reclamation begins construction of the Link River Dam as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.

[edit] August
August 2 - British parliament passes bill to restore order in Ireland, suspending jury trials.
August 3 - Catholics riot in Belfast.
August 10 - Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres.
August 11 - Bolshevik Russia recognizes independent Estonia and Latvia.
August 13 - August 25 - Polish-Soviet War: The Red Army is defeated in the Battle of Warsaw.
August 15 - Town Hall of Templemore, Ireland, is burned down during the riots.
August 19-August 25 - Second Silesian Uprising, the Poles in Upper Silesia rise against the Germans
August 20 - The first commercial radio station in the United States, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.
August 26 - 19th Amendment to US constitution is passed, guaranteeing women's suffrage.

[edit] September
September 4 - La Tercio de Extranjenos, the "Regiment of Foreigners" (modern-day Spanish Legion) inaugurated in Spain
September 5 - Presidential elections begin in Mexico
September 8 - Gabriele D'Annunzio proclaims the Italian Regency of Carnaro in the city of Fiume.
September 16 - The Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J.P.Morgan building in New York City - 39 dead, 400 injured
September 18- Jack Warden, American actor is born.
September 20 - The first soldier joins the Spanish Legion.
September 22 - Flying Squad formed in London Metropolitan Police.
September 29 - First domestic radio sets come to stores in USA – Westinghouse radio costs $10.
September 29 - Adolf Hitler makes first public political speech, in Austria.

[edit] October
October 9 - Polish troops take Vilnius
October 10 - In the Carinthian Plebiscite a large part of Carinthia Province votes to become part of Austria rather than of the Yugoslavia.
October 12 - Polish-Soviet War After Polish army captures Tarnopol, Dubno, Minsk, and Dryssa, the ceasefire is enforced.
October 18 - Thousands of unemployed demonstrate in London ? 50 injured
October 26 - Alvaro Obregon is announced elected president of Mexico
October 27 - League of Nations moves its headquarters to Geneve, Switzerland

[edit] November
November 2 - Warren G. Harding defeats James M. Cox in the U.S. presidential election, the first national U.S. election in which women have the right to vote.
November 2 - In the United States, KDKA AM of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (owned by Westinghouse) starts broadcasting as a commercial radio station. The first broadcast was the results of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.
November 11 - Unknown Soldier buried in Westminster Abbey.
November 15 - In Geneva, the first assembly of the League of Nations is held.
November 16 - Queensland and Northern Territory Aviation Services (Qantas) is founded by Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinniss.
November 17 - The council of the League of Nations accepts the constitution for the Free City of Danzig.
November 21 - Bloody Sunday - British forces open fire on spectators and players during a Football match in Dublin's Croke Park, following the assassinations of 12 British agents.
November 28 - The Third Cork Brigade Flying Column under Tom Barry successfully ambush two lorries of British soldiers at Kilmichael, County Cork. Kilmichael Ambush

[edit] December
December 1 - Álvaro Obregón became president of Mexico.
December 5 - Referendum in Greece is favorable to reinstatement of monarchy.
December 11 - Martial law in Ireland.
December 16 - Finland joins the League of Nations.
December 16 - 8.6 Richter scale Earthquake causes landslide in Gansu Province, China - 180.000 dead.
December 23 - United Kingdom and France ratify the border between French-held Syria and British-held Palestine.
December 25 - Foundation of The Rosicrucian Fellowship's Spiritual Healing Temple "The Ecclesia" at Mount Ecclesia, Oceanside, California (United States).

[edit] Undated
Number of US Americans move to Paris to escape the Prohibition
France prohibits selling of contraceptives.
Roman Ungern von Sternberg conquers Urga and declares himself as a ruler of Mongolia.
Kurd rebellion in Turkey begins.
Johnny Torrio invites Al Capone to Chicago from New York City.
Bricks of wine are widely sold throughout U.S.

[edit] Ongoing events
Ethnic cleansing in Turkey:
Assyrian Genocide (1914–1922)
Pontic Greek Genocide (1916–1923)

[edit] Births
1920 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1920
MCMXX
Ab urbe condita 2673
Armenian calendar 1369
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Bahá'í calendar 76 – 77
Chinese calendar 4556/4616-11-11
(己未年十一月十一日)
— to —
4557/4617-11-22
(庚申年十一月廿二日)
Ethiopian calendar 1912 – 1913
Hebrew calendar 5680 – 5681
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat 1975 – 1976
- Shaka Samvat 1842 – 1843
- Kali Yuga 5021 – 5022
Holocene calendar 11920
Iranian calendar 1298 – 1299
Islamic calendar 1339 – 1340
Japanese calendar Taishō 9

(大正9年)

- Imperial Year Kōki 2580
(皇紀2580年)
- Jōmon Era 11920
Julian calendar 1965
Thai solar calendar 2463
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[edit] January-February
January 1 - Virgilio Savona, Italian singer and songwriter (Quartetto Cetra)
January 2 - Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (d. 1992)
January 3 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician and singer (d. 2001)
January 5 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d. 1995)
January 6 - Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist
January 6 - John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d. 2004)
January 6 - Early Wynn, baseball player (d. 1999)
January 9 - Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist (d. 1998)
January 12 - Bill Reid, Canadian artist (d. 1998)
January 19 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian United Nations Secretary General
January 20 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993)
January 20 - DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
January 20 - John O'Connor, American Catholic cardinal
January 23 - Gottfried Böhm, German architect
January 27 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002)
January 30 - Delbert Mann, American television and film director
February 7 - An Wang, Chinese-born computer pioneer (d. 1990)
February 11 - Farouk I, King of Egypt (d. 1965)
February 11 - Billy Halop, American actor (d. 1976)
February 12 - William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (d. 2000)
February 13 - Seneka Bibile, Sri Lankan pharmacologist (d. 1977)
February 17 - Ivo Caprino, Norwegian film director (d. 2001)
February 18 - Bill Cullen, American game show host (d. 1990)
February 18 - Eddie Slovik, U.S. Army private (d. 1945)
February 26 - Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004)
February 26 - Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer, and traveler (d. 2006)
February 29 - Howard Nemerov, American poet (d. 1991)

[edit] March-April
March 3 - James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (d. 2005)
March 3 - Ronald Searle, British cartoonist
March 4 - Jean Lecanuet, French politician (d. 1993)
March 4 - Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (d. 2002)
March 10 - Boris Vian, French writer, poet, singer, and musician (d. 1959)
March 11 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
March 14 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
March 15 - Lawrence Sanders, American novelist (d. 1998)
March 15 - E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
March 16 - Leo McKern, Australian actor (d. 2002)
March 19 - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian poet and artist (d. 2002)
March 20 - Pamela Harriman, English-born U.S. Ambassador to France (d. 1997)
March 22 - Werner Klemperer, German actor (d. 2000)
March 25 - Patrick Troughton, British actor (d. 1987)
March 25 - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992)
March 27 - Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d. 1995)
April 1 - Toshirô Mifune, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
April 2 - Jack Webb, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1982)
April 5 - Arthur Hailey, American writer (d. 2004)
April 6 - Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss-American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
April 7 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player
April 11 - Peter O'Donnell, British cartoonist and writer
April 15 - Thomas Stephen Szasz, Hungarian-born psychiatrist and writer
April 13 - Liam Cosgrave, fifth President of Ireland
April 21 - Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d. 1991)
April 27 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
April 29 - Harold Shapero, American composer

[edit] May-June
May 2 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (d. 2004)
May 2 - Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-born writer and ecological activist (d. 2000)
May 6 - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji (d. 2004)
May 8 - Saul Bass, American graphic designer (d. 1996)
May 9 - Richard Adams, English author
May 11 - Denver Pyle, American actor (d. 1997)
May 18 - Pope John Paul II (d. 2005)
May 18 - Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
May 23 - Helen O'Connell, American singer (d. 1993)
May 26 - Peggy Lee, American singer (d. 2002)
May 28 - Gene Levitt, American television writer, producer, and director (d. 1999)
May 29 - John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
May 30 - Franklin Schaffner, American film and television director (d. 1989)
June 2 - Tex Schramm, American football executive (d. 2003)
June 12 - Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
June 12 - Jim Siedow, American actor (d. 2003)
June 16 - José López Portillo, President of Mexico (d. 2004)
June 17 - François Jacob, French biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
June 25 - Ozan Marsh, American pianist
June 29 - Ray Harryhausen, American animator

[edit] July-August
July 10 - Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 11 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d. 1985)
July 13 - Bill Towers, English footballer (d. 2000)
July 17 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish International Olympic Committee president
July 21 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 2001)
July 24 - Bella Abzug, American politician (d. 1998)
July 25 - Rosalind Franklin, British crystallographer (d. 1958)
August 3 - Hayden Carruth, American poet and literary critic
August 8 - Leo Chiosso, Italian poet (d. 2006)
August 8 - Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (d. 1997)
August 16 - Charles Bukowski, American writer (d. 1994)
August 17 - Maureen O'Hara, Irish actress
August 18 - Bob Kennedy, baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
August 18 - Shelley Winters, American actress (d. 2006)
August 21 - Christopher Robin Milne, English author and bookseller (d. 1996)
August 22 - Ray Bradbury, American writer
August 26 - Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (d. 2006)
August 29 - Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1955)

[edit] September-October
September 10 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001)
September 14 - Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer
September 14 - Lawrence Klein, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
September 18 - Jack Warden, American actor (d. 2006)
September 22 - William H. Riker, American political scientist (d. 1993)
September 23 - Mickey Rooney, American film actor
September 27 - Jayne Meadows, American actress
September 29 - Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
October 1 - Charles Daudelin, Canadian sculptor (d. 2001)
October 1 - Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000)
October 6 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005)
October 8 - Frank Herbert, American author (d. 1986)
October 9 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
October 15 - Mario Puzo, American author (d. 1999)
October 22 - Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author (d. 1996)
October 29 - Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
October 30 - Norman Bird, UK character actor (d. 2005)
October 31 - Fritz Walter, German footballer (d. 2002)

[edit] November-December
November 2 - Ann Rutherford, Canadian actress
November 25 - Ricardo Montalban, Mexican actor
November 30 - Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005)
December 6 - Dave Brubeck, American jazz pianist and composer
December 6 - George Porter, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
December 9 - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic
December 21 - J. Roderick MacArthur American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1984
December 24 - Evgeniya Rudneva, Soviet World War II heroine (d. 1944)
December 30 - Jack Lord, American actor (d. 1998)

[edit] Date unknown
Anne-Sofie Østvedt, Norwegian resistance leader
Patrick Campbell Rodger, Scottish Anglican bishop (d. 2002)
Thomas John (T.J.) Smith Australian trainer (d. 1998)
Amos Yarkoni, Israeli soldier (d. 1991)

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January - March
January 2 - Paul Adam, French writer (b. 1862)
January 3 - Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (b. 1888)
January 4 - Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (b. 1843)
January 6 - Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen, Danish mathematician (b. 1839)
January 7 - Edmund Barton, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
January 18 - Giovanni Capurro, Italian poet (b. 1825)
January 24 - William Percy French, Irish songwriter and entertainer (b. 1854)
January 24 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (tuberculosis) (b. 1884)
January 24 - William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket, British diplomat and administrator (b. 1864)
January 26 - Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, model, and common-law wife of Amedeo Modigliani (suicide) (b. 1898)
February 2 - Field E. Kindley, American World War I aviator (b. 1896)
February 3 - Frank Brown, Governor of Maryland (b. 1846)
February 6 - Augustus F. Goodridge, Canadian merchant and politician (b. 1839)
February 7 - Aleksandr Kolchak, Russian naval commander (b. 1874)
February 15 - Joseph Burton Sumner, founder of Sumner, Mississippi (b. 1837)
February 20 - Joseph J. Fern, Mayor of Honolulu (b. 1872)
February 20 - Robert Peary, American Arctic explorer (b. 1856)
February 27 - William Sherman Jennings, Governor of Florida (b. 1863)
March 1 - John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator from Alabama (b. 1842)
March 1 - William A. Stone, Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1846)
March 1 - Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist (b. 1880)
March 4 - Roswell P. Bishop, U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b. 1843)
March 11 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)
March 13 - Charles Lapworth, English geologist (b. 1842)
March 26 - William Chester Minor, American surgeon (b. 1834)
March 26 - Mary Augusta Ward, Tasmanian novelist (b. 1851)
March 31 - Paul Bachmann, German mathematician (b. 1837)
March 31 - Edwin Warfield, Governor of Maryland (b. 1848)

[edit] April - June
April 8 - John Brashear, American astronomer (b. 1840)
April 8 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (b. 1884)
April 9 - Moritz Cantor, German historian of mathematics (b. 1829)
April 21 - Maria L. Sanford, American educator (b. 1836)
April 26 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
May 1 - Princess Margaret of Connaught, Crown Princess of Sweden (b. 1882)
May 11 - James Colosimo, Italian-born gangster (b. 1877)
May 11 - William Dean Howells, American writer (b. 1837)
May 16 - Levi P. Morton, Vice President of the United States (b. 1824)
May 21 - Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico (b. 1859)
May 21 - Eleanor H. Porter, American novelist (b. 1868)
May 23 - Svetozar Borojevic, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. 1856)
May 30 - George Ernest Morrison, Australian adventurer (b. 1862)
June 5 - Rhoda Broughton, Welsh writer (b. 1840)
June 5 - Julia A. Moore, American poet (b. 1847)
June 6 - James Dunsmuir, Canadian politician (b. 1851)
June 13 - Essad Pasha, Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1863)
June 14 - Gabrielle Réjane, French actress (b. 1856)
June 14 - Max Weber, German political economist (b. 1864)
June 18 - Jewett W. Adams, Governor of Nevada (b. 1835)
June 18 - John Macoun, Irish born naturalist (b. 1831)
June 20 - Marie Adolphe Carnot, French chemist, mining engineer, and politician (b. 1839)
June 20 - John Grigg, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1838)
June 27 - Adolphe Basile Routhier, Canadian poet (b. 1839)

[edit] July - September
July 1 - Delfim Moreira, President of Brazil (b. 1868)
July 2 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)
July 10 - John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
July 11 - Empress Eugénie of France (b. 1826)
July 14 - Albert Keller, German painter (b. 1844)
July 22 - William Kissam Vanderbilt, American heir (b. 1849)
August 1 - Frank Hanly, Governor of Indiana (b. 1863)
August 1 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist (b. 1856)
August 2 - Ormer Locklear, American pilot (b. 1891)
August 9 - Samuel Griffith, Australian politician and judge (b. 1845)
August 10 - Adam Politzer, Austrian otologist (b. 1835)
August 12 - Hermann Struve, Russian-born astronomer (b. 1854)
August 16 - Henry Daglish, Premier of Australia (b. 1866)
August 16 - Joseph Norman Lockyer, English astronomer (b. 1836)
August 17 - Ray Chapman, baseball player (b. 1891)
August 22 - Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (b. 1860)
August 26 - James Wilson, Scottish-born American politician (b. 1835)
August 31 - Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist and psychologist (b. 1832)
September 7 - Simon-Napoléon Parent, Premier of Quebec (b. 1855)
September 10 - Olive Thomas, American actress (b. 1894)
September 18 - Robert Beaven, Canadian politician (b. 1836)
September 24 - Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian jeweler (b. 1846)
September 25 - Jacob Schiff, German-born banker and philanthropist (b. 1847)
September 30 - William Wilfred Sullivan, Canadian journalist, politician, and jurist (b. 1843)

[edit] October - December
October 2 - Winthrop M. Crane, Governor of Massachusetts and Senator (b. 1853)
October 10 - Hudson Stuck, English mountaineer (b. 1865)
October 19 - John Reed, American journalist (b. 1887)
October 20 - Max Bruch, German composer (b. 1838)
October 24 - Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1853)
November 1 - Kevin Barry, Irish republican (hanged) (b. 1902)
November 4 - Ludwig Struve, Russian astronomer (b. 1858)
November 13 - Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter and illustrator (b. 1846)
November 23 - George Callaghan, British admiral (b. 1852)
November 25 - Gaston Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and manufacturer (b. 1892)
November 30 - Eugene W. Chafin, American politician (b. 1852)
December 3 - William de Wiveleslie Abney, English astronomer and photographer (b. 1843)
December 11 - Olive Schreiner, South African writer (b. 1855)
December 12 - Edward Gawler Prior, Canadian mining engineer and politician (b. 1854)
December 14 - George Gipp, American football player (b. 1895)

[edit] Nobel prizes
Physics - Charles Edouard Guillaume
Chemistry - Walther Nernst
Medicine - Schack August Steenberg Krogh
Literature - Knut Hamsun
Peace - Thomas Woodrow Wilson
some more
Events and Trends

Fashions for women: Autumn of 1928.Since the closing of the 20th Century, the 1920s has drawn close associations with the 1950s and 1990s, especially in the United States. The three decades are regarded as periods of economic prosperity, which lasted throughout almost the entire decade following a tremendous event that occurred in the previous decade (World War I and Spanish flu in the 1910s, World War II in the 1940s, and the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s). In the United States, this decade was known as the Roaring Twenties.

Despite the comparisons, however, there were a number of differences. Firstly, Weimar Republic Germany, like many other European countries, had to face a severe economic downturn in the opening years of the decade, due to the enormous debt caused by the war as well as the one-sided Treaty of Versailles. Such a crisis would culminate with a devaluation of the Mark in 1923, eventually leading to severe economic problems and the rise of the Nazis.

Second, the decade was characterized by the rise of radical political movements, especially in regions that were once part of empires. Communism began attracting large numbers of followers following the success of the October Revolution and the Bolsheviks' determination to win the subsequent Russian Civil War. The Bolsheviks would eventually adopt semi-capitalist policies-- New Economic Policy-- from 1921 to 1928. The 1920s also experienced the rise of the far-right in Europe and elsewhere, starting with Fascism in the world as an antidote to Communism.

The Stock Market collapsed during October 1929 (see Black Tuesday) and drew a line under prosperous 1920s.


[edit] Technology

Poster for the second All-Color All-Talking movie: Gold Diggers of Broadway 1929.John T. Thompson invents Thompson submachine gun, also known as "Tommy gun"
John Logie Baird invents the first working mechanical television system (1925). In 1928 he invents and demonstrates the first color television.
Warner Brothers produces the first movie with a soundtrack Don Juan in 1926, followed by the first Part-Talkie The Jazz Singer in 1927, the first All-Talking movie Lights of New York in 1928 and the first All-Color All-Talking movie On with the Show 1929.
Charles Lindbergh becomes the first person to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean (20 May-21 May 1927)
Karl Ferdinand Braun invented the modern electronic cathode ray tube in 1897. The CRT became a commercial product in 1922.
Record companies (such as Victor, Brunswick and Columbia) introduce an Electrical Recording process on their phonograph records in 1925 (that had been developed by Western Electric), resulting in a more life-like sound.

[edit] Science

According to the Big Bang theory explaining the birth of an expanding universe, the Universe originated in an extremely dense ball of pure matter. Since then, space itself has expanded with the passage of time, carrying the galaxies with it.Insulin is discovered by Sir Frederick Grant Banting during the winter of 1921-1922
Penicillin is discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming (1928)
Great advances in quantum mechanics
Wave mechanics and the Schrödinger equation
Werner Heisenberg formulates the uncertainty principle
Prediction and discovery of the expanding universe
Albert Einstein wins Nobel for photoelectric effect. (1921)
Niels Bohr wins Nobel for work on atomic theory. (1922)

[edit] War, peace and politics
See also Social issues of the 1920s
Rise of communism after World War I
Vladimir Lenin in 1920. He was leading figure of the Communist movement until his death in 1924.The Red Scare in the United States (1920-1921)
In the United States, peak of the Ku Klux Klan (about five million members)
In the United States, KKK auxiliaries established.
Irish War of Independence (1919-1921) and Irish Civil War (1922-23)
The Irish Free State gains independence from the United Kingdom in 1922
Marie C. Brehm becomes temperance movement leader.
Turkish War of Independence
Moderation League of New York worked for repeal of prohibition.
Polish-Soviet war
First Labour Government of Ramsay MacDonald formed in the United Kingdom
Kellogg-Briand Pact to end war
Prohibition leaders were at the height of their power.
The Qajar dynasty ended under Ahmad Shah Qajar and Reza Pahlavi formed the Pahlavi Dynasty, which would later become the last monarchy of Iran.
Hitler publishes Mein Kampf, a book that foreshadows many of the events in the 1930s.
Mussolini became Italy's Prime Minister and started a fascist dictatorship.

[edit] Economics
The New Economic Policy is created by the Bolsheviks in Russia.
The Dawes Plan, which lasted from 1924-1928
Economic boom ended by "Black Tuesday" (October 29, 1929); the stock market crashes, leading to the Great Depression

[edit] Literature and Arts
George Gershwin writes Rhapsody in Blue
T. S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land
James Joyce publishes Ulysses
Franz Kafka publishes The Trial
Erich Maria Remarque publishes All Quiet on the Western Front
Rene Magritte paints The Treachery of Images
Walter Gropius builds the Bauhaus in Dessau
F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby
Hermann Hesse publishes Siddhartha
Ernest Hemingway publishes The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms
Thornton Wilder publishes The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Alexey Tolstoy publishes Aelita
George Bernard Shaw publishes Back to Methuselah
Eugene O'Neill awarded Pulitzer Prizes for Beyond the Horizon in 1920, Anna Christie in 1922, and Strange Interlude in 1928.

[edit] Culture, religion
Prohibition — legal attempt to end consumption of alcohol in Canada, the USA, Norway and Finland
Prohibition agents destroying barrels of alcohol.Youth culture of The Lost Generation; flappers, the Charleston, and bobbed hair
"The Jazz Age" — jazz and jazz-influenced dance music widely popular
F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes some of the most enduring novels characterizing the Jazz Age. This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, and The Great Gatsby, as well as three short story collections, were all published in these years.
Women's suffrage movement continues to make gains as women obtain full voting rights in Denmark in 1915, in the USA in 1919, and in England in 1928; and women begin to enter the workplace in larger numbers
In the US, gangsters and the rise of organized crime, often associated with bootleg liquor, in defiance of Prohibition.
Rum rows are established to import bootleg alcoholic beverages into U.S.
First commercial radio station in the U.S. goes on air in Pittsburgh, in 1920, and radio quickly becomes a popular entertainment medium
Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals defends alcohol prohibition in U.S.
First feature-length motion picture with a sound track (Don Juan) is released in 1926. First part-talkie (The Jazz Singer) released in 1927, first all-talking feature (Lights of New York) released in 1928 and first all-color all-talking feature (On with the Show) released in 1929.
Beginning of surrealist movement
Beginning of the Art Deco movement
Fads such as dance marathons, mah-jongg, crossword puzzles and pole-sitting are popular
The height of the clip joint
The Harlem Renaissance
The Scopes Monkey Trial (1925) which declared that John T. Scopes had violated the law by teaching evolution in schools, creating tension between the competing theories of creationism and evolution.
Bishop James Cannon, Jr. becomes a U.S. temperance movement leader.
The Group of Seven (artists)
Repeal organizations organized to fight national prohibition in U.S.
Minister Daisey Douglas Barr heads Women's Ku Klux Klan (WKKK).
The tomb of Tutankhamun is discovered intact by Howard Carter (1922). This begins a second revival of Egyptomania.

[edit] People

[edit] World leaders
Prime Minister Stanley Bruce (Australia)
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (Canada, as an extension of the United Kingdom at the time)
President Sun Yat-sen (Republic of China)
President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China)
President Paul von Hindenburg (Germany)
Ahmad Shah Qajar of Qajar dynasty (Persia/Iran)
Reza Shah Pahlavi of Pahlavi Dynasty (Iran)
King Victor Emmanuel III (Italy)
Prime Minister Benito Mussolini (Italy)
President W.T. Cosgrave (Irish Free State)
President Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) (Turkey)
Emperor Hirohito (Japan)
Pope Pius XI
Józef Piłsudski (Poland)
Vladimir Lenin (Soviet Union)
Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)
King Alfonso XIII (Spain)
King George V (United Kingdom)
Prime Minister David Lloyd George (United Kingdom)
Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law (United Kingdom)
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (United Kingdom)
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald (United Kingdom)
President Woodrow Wilson (United States)
President Warren G. Harding (United States)
President Calvin Coolidge (United States)
President Herbert Hoover (United States)

[edit] Entertainers
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
Louis Armstrong
Josephine Baker
Irving Berlin
Clara Bow
Louise Brooks
Eddie Cantor
Lon Chaney
Charlie Chaplin
Joan Crawford
Douglas Fairbanks
Greta Garbo
George Gershwin
William S. Hart
Harry Houdini
Al Jolson
Buster Keaton
Tom Mix
Jelly Roll Morton
Will Rogers
Mary Pickford
Cole Porter
Bessie Smith
Chief Tahachee
Rudolph Valentino
Rudy Vallee
Paul Whiteman
Florenz Ziegfeld

[edit] Sports figures
Warwick Armstrong (Australian cricket captain)
Gordon Coventry (Australian rules football player)
Jack Dempsey (American boxer)
Red Grange (American football player)
Jack Hobbs (Surrey & England cricketer)
Alex James (Arsenal & Scotland footballer)
Bobby Jones (American golfer)
Kenesaw Mountain Landis (American Baseball Commissioner)
Suzanne Lenglen (French tennis player )
Helen Wills Moody (American tennis player)
Paavo Nurmi (Finnish runner)
Wilfred Rhodes (Yorkshire & England cricketer)
Babe Ruth (American baseball player)
Herbert Sutcliffe (Yorkshire & England cricketer)
Bill Tilden (American tennis player)
Johnny Weissmuller (American swimmer)

[edit] Styles
Robert Sobel The Great Bull Market: Wall Street in the 1920s (1968