ll a revolt there.
3/12/1929, President Hoover delivered his first State of the Union speech to Congress.
23/9/1929, The $1.5 million, 21,000-seat St. Louis Arena opened.
28/7/1929, Jacqueline Onassis, widow of President Kennedy, was born in Southampton, New York State, as Jacqueline Lee Bouvier.
14/2/1929. The St Valentines Day Massacre took place in Chicago. Seven members of Bugsy Moran’s gang were machine-gunned to death by a rival gang.
13/1/1929, Wyatt Earp, American lawman and hero of the OK Corral, died peacefully aged 81.
1928, Roosevelt, future US President, was elected Governor of New York.
7/12/1928, Noam Chomsky, US social scientist, was born.
19/9/1928. The first cartoon talking picture, Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie, with Mickey Mouse (originally called Mortimer Mouse), was shown in New York.
6/7/1928, The first all-talking feature film, Lights of New York, was presented at The Sound Theatre, New York.
13/3/1928, In Los Angeles, 450 died when a dam burst.
21/1/1928, George Washington Goethals, American, chief engineer of the Panama Canal, died.
3/1/1928, US troops went to Nicaragua to fight the Sandinistas.
7/8/1927, The Peace Bridge opened between Canada and the USA.
21/1/1927, Telly Savalas, American film actor who played ‘Kojak’, was born in Garden City, New York.
19/6/1925, Bank robber Everett Bridgewater and two accomplices were arrested in Indianapolis, Indiana.
3/6/1926, Allan Ginsberg, US poet, was born.
13/1/1929, Wyatt Earp, American lawman and hero of the OK Corral, died peacefully aged 81.
10/10/1925, James Buchanan Duke, US industrialist, (born in Durham, North Carolina, 23/12/1856) died in New York.
26/7/1925, William Jennings Bryan, US Democratic Party orator and prosecutor in the Scopes ‘Monkey Trial’, born 19/3/1860 in Salem, Illinois, died in Dayton, Tennessee.
3/6/1925, Tony Curtis, US actor, was born.
26/5/1925, George Adams, US historian (born 3/6/1851) died.
31/3/1925, The Philadelphia Daily News began publication.
26/5/1924. The US passed a bill to limit immigration to 164,000 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 l