1923 – The Rats in the Walls
1923. The African-American town of Rosewood is destroyed by a white mob.
1923. The African-American town of Rosewood is destroyed by a white mob.
1922. President Harding installs the first radio device in the White House, and becomes the first president to deliver a broadcasted speech.
1921. Gucci is founded, the Bloody Mary is invented, and White Castle restaurants open in Wichita Kansas - the world’s first fast food restaurants.
1920. The Russian Civil War is mostly over.
1919. Pachelbel’s Canon is published and Germany signs the Treaty of Versailles.
1918. Ding dong the war is dead!
1917. New allies enter the Great War and existing allies depart.
1916. The madness of the Great War continues unabated.
1915. Women’s suffrage is introduced in Denmark (full voting rights) and Iceland (women over 40), and the British Women’s institute is founded.
1914. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir-presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne is assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip.