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Events relating to america
Warren Harding wins the US presidential election for the Republicans
Ten years of violent revolution in Mexico are brought to and end in a successful coup by Alvaro Obregón
The American novelist Sinclair Lewis has his first major success with Main Street, an unflattering portrayal of American village life
The schooner Bluenose begins a long series of international racing victories for Canada
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is paralyzed from the waist down by polio
Italian immigrant anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are convicted of murder in a US trial flawed by prejudice
Tulsa race riots cap previous levels of violence, with more than eighty-five blacks killed
Italian sex symbol Rudolph Valentino has two sensational hits within the same year, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and The Sheik
Somerset Maugham's short story 'Rain' (in his collection The Trembling of a Leaf) introduces the lively American prostitute Sadie Thompson
Marianne Moore calls her first published collection simply Poems
Eugene O'Neill's play Anna Christie is performed in New York
W.L. Mackenzie King begins a nine-year spell as Canadian prime minister, albeit with a brief interruption in 1926
Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman to sit in Canada's parliament
The first of America's 'unknown soldiers' is placed in the new Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery
De Witt Wallace and his wife, working from home, publish the first issue of Reader's Digest
Robert J. Flaherty lives with the Inuit in the Arctic to make his dramatized documentary Nanook of the North
The US architectural critic Lewis Mumford publishes The Story of Utopias, the first of his many influential works
Diego Rivera, returning from his study of Italian frescoes, begins the first of his influential murals depicting Mexican history
Sinclair Lewis creates an archetypal character in George Folanshee Babbitt, a real-estate broker in the midwestern town of Zenith
Linus Pauling, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, begins theoretical work on the nature of the chemical bond
US golfer Walter Hagen wins the first of his four victories in the British Open
The Broadway show Ziegfeld Follies features an exciting new dance, the Charleston
The Teapot Dome scandal reveals corruption in the administration of US president Warren Harding
American-born poet T.S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land, an extremely influential poem in five fragmented sections
German film director Ernst Lubitsch moves to Hollywood, at the request of Mary Pickford
