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October 3: Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Tom Foley announces the closure of the House Bank by the end of the year after revelations that House members have written numerous bad checks. October 5: Linus Torvalds launches the first version of the Linux kernel. October 30 – November 1: Madrid Conference of 1991.
1917–1920 – First Red Scare, marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism; 1918 – President Wilson's Fourteen Points, which assures citizens that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and postwar peace in Europe; 1918 – Republicans win back Congress in the Midterm elections. 1918 – Armistice agreement ends World ...
1942 – Japanese American internment, German American Internment, and Italian American Internment begin, per executive order by President Roosevelt; the order also authorizes the seizure of their property. 1942–1945 – Automobile production in the United States for private consumers halted. 1942 – Casablanca released
SS Iowa (1920) Accident – shipwreck Columbia Bar, Washington: 34 1943 USS Rogday (ID-3583) Accident – shipwreck Off South Carolina: 34 1945 Michigan train wreck: Accident – railroad Michigan City, North Dakota: 34 1950 1950 Chicago streetcar crash: Accident – railroad Chicago, Illinois: 34 1959 Braniff Flight 542: Accident – aircraft
1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. ... 1920 disasters in North America (2 C ...
1920s: Finance. America's wealth more than doubled in the years between 1920 and '29. Most of this wealth funneled into finance and industry, but enough trickled down to low-level employees to let ...
The 1920s (pronounced "nineteen-twenties" often shortened to the "' 20s" or the "Twenties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1920, and ended on December 31, 1929. . Primarily known for the economic boom that occurred in the Western World following the end of World War I (1914–1918), the decade is frequently referred to as the "Roaring Twenties" or the "Jazz Age" in America and Western ...