0 annually, and bar Japanese immigration totally.
10/4/1924. The first crossword puzzle book was published in New York.
8/2/1924. The first execution by gas chamber, in Carson City’s Nevada State Prison. Chinese gang member Gee John’s execution took some six minutes after the hydrocyanic gas was introduced.
3/9/1923, The US recognised the Mexican government.
27/5/1923. Henry Kissinger, American Secretary of State, was born in Furth, Germany. Kissinger shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Le Duc Thuo for their part in ending the Vietnam War.
3/3/1923. The US magazine Time was first published. Republican-leaning, the magazine was to condense the news for time-pressed Americans, and could be distributed by rail in a country with no true national newspaper.
10/1/1923, The last US troops left Germany.
7/11/1922. In US Congressional elections, the Republican majority was reduced.
10/9/1922, Bernard Bailyn, US historian, was born.
15/8/1922, End of a coal strike in the USA (began 1/4/1922).
20/3/1922. President Harding recalled US troops from the Rhineland.
4/3/1922, In the USA the ‘Teapot Dome’ scandal emerged. Secretary of the Interior Albert B Fall resigned as a Senate Committee investigated alleged unlawful leasing of Government oil reserves and other matters. In 1929 Fall was sentenced to 1 year in prison, also fined.
6/2/1922, The Limitation of Armaments Conference at Washington ended.
5/2/1922. The Readers Digest was first published, in the USA.
22/12/1921, US Congress set aside US$ 20 million for food aid to starving children in the USSR.
12/11/1921, The Limitation of Armaments Conference began in Washington.
25/8/1921. Peace treaty (Treaty of Berlin) signed between Germany and the USA.
11/8/1921, Alex Hailey, US author of Roots, was born.
19/5/1921. The USA introduced quotas for immigration, setting these at 3% of the each nationality in the US as it was in 1910. This favoured the British, Irish, Scandinavians, and Germans, and worked against the southern Europeans and Asians. The measure was backed by organised labour, worried about unemployment, by reformers worried about the poverty and slums in the US, and by those who felt that the Asian races were inferior to Europeans.
12/4/1921, US President Harding rejected joining the League of Nations.
10/12/1920, Woodrow Wilson and Leon Bourgeois were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
7/12/1920, US President Woodrow Wilson made his State of the Union speech.
16/10/1920, US Marines killed the Haitian rebel leader.
26/8/1920. Under the 19th Amendment, women received the vote in the USA.
5/7/1920, In the US, the Democratic Convention nominated James M Cox for Presidency and F D Roosevelt for Vice-Presidency.
19/3/1920. The US Senate refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles, and the US refused to join the League of Nations.
16/1/1920. Prohibition began in the USA (18th Amendment), and the sale, manufacture, or involvement with alcohol was banned.
See also Morals and Fashion for more details on Prohibition.
5/1/1920. Radio Corporation of America was formed for world-wide broadcasting.
2/1/1920. Major US crackdown on suspected Communists began. The ‘Palmer Raids’ in over 30 cities across the USA resulted in the arrest of almost 3,000 anarchists, communists and other radicals. These raids were the idea of Attorney-General A Mitchell Palmer. The raids were controversial; some protested at the disregard for civil liberties, but some on the Right wanted those detained to be executed. Palmer himself, a Democrat, lost the Presidential nomination in late 1920 but maintained he had foiled a Bolshevik plot to overthrow the US Government.
27/11/1919. A large meteor landed in Lake Michigan.
11/11/1919, Death of Andrew Carnegie, US steel magnate and philanthropist. Born in Dunfermline, Scotland, on 25/11/1835, his family moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when Andrew was 13. \he gave considerable sums to education and set-up the Carnegie Endowment for International Pece.
13/10/1919. Dock strike in New York.
2/10/1919, US President Wilson suffered a massive stroke, leaving his left side paralysed.