Top Ten Historical Events of the 1920s
The Top Ten
1 Al Capone Turf Wars
2 Egypt Declares Independence
3 1927 Earthquake in China
4 China's Communist Party is Created
5 Stock Market Crash - 1929
6 Walt Disney Creates Mickey Mouse
7 Columbine Mine Massacre
8 The League of Nations is Founded
9 Women granted the right to vote
10 Bubonic Plague in India
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11 Opening of Route 66
12 Howard Carter Opens King Tut's Tomb
13 Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan
14 First Academy Awards ceremony
15 First Around the World Flight is Completed
16 The Birth of the National Football League
It all began at a showroom in Canton, Ohio where owners from all teams got together in one room and formed what is called the National Football League. IN the early years, teams pop up and go and some cities that had teams want no part of it in the long run. The NFL was way behind college football but even during the early years many stars emerged like Fritz Pollard, the famed Olympian Jim Thorpe, and a runner who in 1925 came to the league and slowly changed the league into what it is today, a national obsession. That runner is Red Grange.
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17 Extreme Inflation in Germany
18 Time Magazine published for the first time
19 Teapot Dome Scandal
20 BBC founded
21 Sacco and Venzetti Executed
22 Oregon Fire of 1922
23 The First Winter Olympics
24 Babe Ruth Joins the Yankees
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