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History in the 1920s
 The following events occurred in the decade beginning in 1920. These are the events that shaped the world during the lives of your ancestors, both here in the United States and throughout the world. If you've ever wondered who your ancestors voted for, what their primary mode of transportation was, and how they received the news of their day — this may give you a clue.
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These are just some of the events that shaped life in the 1920s:
- 1/1920 - George Herman 'Babe' Ruth, sold by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees
- 1/1920 - 18th Amendment prohibits sale of beer, wine, liquor - Prohibition
- 8/1920 - American women win the right to vote upon signing of the 19th Amendment
- 8/1920 - Antwerp Belgium hosts 1920 Summer Olympic games
- 9/1920 - A bomb blast in New York's financial district kills 30, injures hundreds
- 6/1921 - Jennie Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill, dies
- 8/1921 - Enrico Caruso, world famous tenor, died in Naples, Italy
- 1/1922 - Pope Benedict XV dies of pneumonia after 7 years of service
- 3/1922 - Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee sets shooting record in Pinehurst, NC (98 of 100)
- 11/1922 - Archeologists discover the tomb of King Tutankhamen
- 8/1923 - President Warren G. Harding dies in San Francisco at the age of 57
- 12/1923 - World-famous engineer Gustave Eiffel dies in Paris at the age of 91
- 1/1924 - Chamonix, France plays host to first Winter Olympic games
- 2/1924 - Former President T. Woodrow Wilson, 28th President, dies in Washington
- 7/1924 - Paris, France hosts Summer Olympic games
- 11/1925 - Over 40,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan march on Washington D.C.
- 2/1926 - American archeologists report discovery of ancient Mayan city in Yucatan
- 6/1926 - Bobby Jones wins British Open golf championship at St. Anne's
- 5/1927 - Charles Lindbergh becomes first person to cross Atlantic by air
- 7/1928 - Amsterdam plays host to 1928 Summer Olympic games
- 10/1929 - Stock market crash on 'Black Thursday' triggers the Great Depression
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