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1920s Timeline
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Gershwin composes
Rhapsody in Blue
The Play ‘ Six characters
in search of an author’
by Luigi Pirandello
is premiered
Noel Coward’s play ‘The
Vortex’ is first performed
Poulenc composes
Les Biches
‘Ulysses’ by James Joyce
is published
Buster Keaton made his
first film appearance
in ‘One Week’
A A Milne published
‘Winnie the Pooh’
‘The Great Gatsby’
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
is published
Alfred Hitchcock’s
first feature film ‘The
Pleasure Garden’ is
released in the US
Kurt Weill composes
Threepenny Opera
The first talking movie ‘The
Jazz Singer’ is premiered
The Charleston becomes
a dance craze
Kurt Weill composes
The Rise and Fall
of the City of
Mahagonny
The first Oxford English
Dictionary is published
‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ by
D H Lawrence is published
‘The Hairy Ape’ by Eugine
O’Neill premieres
The first Academy Awards
The BBC is founded
1st assassination
attempt on Mussolini
Bubblegum is invented
Insulin is discovered
First commercial radio
broadcast aired
Flapper dresses
come into fashion
Hitler is jailed after a
failed coup
Actor ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle
is arrested for the
murder of young starlet
Virginia Rappe
The first Olympic
Winter Games
J. Edgar Hoover is
appointed FBI Director
Lenin dies
Irish free state proclaimed
The lie detector is invented
Prohibition begins
in the US
Women granted the
right to vote in the US
Lindbergh flies solo
across the Atlantic
Hitler published
‘Mein Kampf’
The stock market
crashes and the Great
Depression begins
Harry Houdini dies
The St Valentine’s
Day Massacre
Gertrude Ederle becomes
the first woman to swim
the English Channel
Penicillin disovered
The car radio is invented
Sliced bread is invented
The tomb of King
Tutankhamun is
discovered
Mussolini marches on Rome
Time Magazine is founded
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