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1920 – First radio broadcasts, by KDKA in Pittsburgh and WWJ in Detroit; 1920 – Volstead Act; 1920 – Esch–Cummins Act; 1920 – Economy collapses. The Depression of 1920–21 begins. 1920 – National Football League is formed; 1920 – 1920 U.S. presidential election: Warren G. Harding elected president, and Calvin Coolidge vice president.
The following is a list of timelines of United States presidencies. George Washington (1787–1797) Timeline of the George Washington presidency;
John Tyler was the first vice president to assume the presidency during a presidential term, setting the precedent that a vice president who does so becomes the fully functioning president with a new, distinct administration. [13] Throughout most of its history, American politics has been dominated by political parties. The Constitution is ...
He challenged Taft for the Republican presidential nomination in the 1912 presidential election, but his candidacy was overshadowed by Theodore Roosevelt. La Follette's refusal to support Roosevelt, and especially his suicidal ranting speech before media leaders in February 1912, alienated many progressives.
Gerald Ford becomes the 38th president of the United States upon the resignation of President Richard Nixon on August 9, 1974; The nation celebrates the Bicentennial of the United States of America, July 4, 1976; Jimmy Carter becomes the 39th president of the United States on January 20, 1977; Iran hostage crisis, November 4, 1979 – January ...
too small to map: March 23, 1901 The president of the First Philippine Republic, Emilio Aguinaldo, was captured, and the republic was dissolved. On this same date several islands, Cagayan de Sulu and Sibutu among them, were purchased from Spain and assigned to the Philippines, which was then being governed as a U.S. insular area.
June 11 – During the 1920 Republican National Convention in Chicago, party leaders gather in a "smoke-filled room" of The Blackstone Hotel to decide their presidential candidate. June 13 – The U.S. Post Office rules that children may not be sent via parcel post. June 14 – Cherokee National Forest is established.
In 1893, President Cleveland signed into law a bill making Labor Day an official US holiday, but on the first weekend of September to avoid the socialistic connotations of May Day. At its peak, the Knights claimed 700,000 members. By 1890, membership had plummeted to fewer than 100,000, then faded away. [47]