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Events relating to america
US boxer Jack Dempsey defeats Jess Willard for the world heavyweight title, sending him from the ring with a broken jaw
At least thirty-eight people are killed in a race riot in Chicago
Lillian Gish stars as a Cockney girl in D.W. Griffith's inter-racial film romance Broken Blossoms, set in London's slums
Steelworkers go on strike in the US, attempting a major confrontation with industrial management
President Woodrow Wilson suffers a severe stroke that renders him largely incapable during the final seventeen months of his presidency
Marcel Duchamp adds a moustache and beard to a postcard of the Mona Lisa, and gives it the subtly offensive French title LHOOQ
The actors Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin establish United Artists with the director D.W. Griffith
Canadian National Railways is formed from two of the country's largest rail systems
Boston Red Sox sell their star player, Babe Ruth, to the New York Yankees for $125,000
Sherwood Anderson establishes a reputation with a collection of short stories, Winesburg, Ohio
To President Wilson's profound disappointment the US Congress, by failing to ratify the treaty of Versailles, opts out of the League of Nations
Prohibition comes into effect in the USA, three months after the Volstead Act has provided guidelines for enforcement
The US steel strike collapses after four months, with nothing achieved
Ezra Pound publishes Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, a poem that reflects on the practice of poetry itself
Edith Wharton publishes her best-known novel, The Age of Innocence
Bristol-born actor Cary Grant moves to the USA with a troupe of touring tumblers
The publication of Scott FitzGerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, brings him instant success
The Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees women the right to vote
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart work together as Columbia University students, creating the musical Fly With Me
Artists dedicated to celebrating the Canadian landscape come together as the Group of Seven
Charles Ives publishes his Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840-60, usually known as the Concord Sonata
A Chilean poet, Ricardo Reyes, adopts the pen name Pablo Neruda
D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love, a continuation of the family story in The Rainbow, is published first in the USA
Douglas Fairbanks makes the first of his swashbuckling adventure movies, The Mark of Zorro
The marriage of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks is a Hollywood sensation after a three-year affair
