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| 1 | 1913 | - 4 Mar 1913—1921: Woodrow Wilson president of the USA 1913-1921
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| 2 | 1919 | - 1919 : The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite
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| 3 | 1919 | - 1919: The arc welder invented
- 6 Jan 1919: Theodore Roosevelt died in his sleep on January 6, 1919, at his Long Island estate, Sagamore Hill, after suffering a coronary embolism. He was 60 years old. He was buried at the Youngs Memorial Cemetery in New York.
- 16 Jan 1919: Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor. It is later repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment in 1933
- 18 Aug 1919: Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, granting women the right to vote
- 26 Sep 1919: President Wilson suffers a stroke
- 19 Nov 1919: Treaty of Versailles, outlining terms for peace at the end of World War I, is rejected by the Senate
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| 4 | 1920 | - 1920 : The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson
- 1920 : The Band-Aid invented by Earle Dickson
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| 5 | 1921 | - 1921 : Artificial life begins -- the first robot built
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| 6 | 1921 | - 1921: Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting
- 4 Mar 1921—2 Aug 1921: Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as the 29th president. President Harding dies suddenly (Aug. 2). Warren Harding dies of an embolism in San Francisco. He had taken ill on 31 Jul 1921 He is succeeded by his vice president, Calvin Coolidge.
- 3 Aug 1921—1929: Calvin Coolidge president of the USA 1921-1929. Calvin Coolidge, vice president under Warren Harding, sworn in as president the day after Harding dies
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| 7 | 1922 | - 1922 : The first 3-D movie (spectacles with one red and one green lens) is released
- 1922 : Joseph Stalin elected General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party
- 1922 : Excavation begins on the tomb of ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamen near Luxor, Egypt
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| 8 | 1923 | - 1923 : Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal
- 1923 : John Harwood invented the self-winding watch
- 1923 : Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food
- 1923 : Major earthquake destroys Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan, killing 143,000
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| 9 | 1923 | - 1923: The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
- Oct 1923: Teapot Dome scandal breaks, as Senate launches an investigation into improper leasing of naval oil reserves during Harding administration (Oct.)
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| 10 | 1924 | - 1924 : The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg
- 1924 : Notebooks with spiral bindings invented
- 1924 : First winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, France
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| 11 | 1925 | - 1925 : George Washington Carver receives patents for manufacture of paints and stains from clays and minerals
- 1925 : Paris Exposition opens, providing a venue for and giving name to "art deco"
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| 12 | 1925 | - 1925: Tennessee passes a law against the teaching of evolution in public schools (March 23), setting the stage for the Scopes Monkey Trial (July 10–25).
- 4 Mar 1925—1929: Coolidge's second inauguration
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| 13 | 1926 | - 1926 : Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets
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| 14 | 1927 | - 1927 : JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch
- 1927 : Technicolor invented
- 1927 : Erik Rotheim patents an aerosol can
- 1927 : Warren Marrison developed the first quartz clock
- 1927 : Philip Drinker invents the iron lung
- 1927 : Charles Lindbergh arrives in Paris and is greeted by ecstatic crowds after a 33 hour non-stop flight from New York City
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| 15 | 1927 | - 1927: Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system.
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| 16 | 1928 | - 1928 : Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
- 1928 : Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer
- 1928 : Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver
- 1928 : Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek captures Peking, effectively ending centuries of control of Northern China by feudal warlords
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| 17 | 1929 | - 1929 : American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio
- 1929 : Yo-Yo re-invented as an American fad
- 29 Oct 1929 : "Black Tuesday," the American stock market crashes plunging the country into the Great Depression
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| 18 | 1929 | - 4 Mar 1929—1933: Herbert Hoover president of the USA 1929-1933
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| 19 | 1930 | - 1930 : Scotch tape patented by 3M engineer Richard G. Drew
- 1930 : The "differential analyzer", or analog computer invented by Vannevar Bush at MIT in Boston
- 1930 : Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain both invent a jet engine
- 1930 : German National Elections, Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party wins 95 seats in the Reichstag
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Oldham Family History
1919 - 1930 (10 years)