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1923
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As of the start of 1923, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was relegated that February to use only by churches after Greece adopted the Gregorian calendar. January 1 – The Grouping, All major British railway companies are grouped into four larger companies, january 1–7 – Rosewood massacre, a violent, racially motivated conflict in Florida. At least eight people are killed, and the town of Rosewood is abandoned and destroyed, january 9 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region. January 11 – Despite strong British protests, troops from France, january 17 – Juan de la Cierva invents the autogyro, a rotary-winged aircraft with an unpowered rotor. January 18 – Elon Colleges campus in North Carolina is destroyed by a fire, norman Albert calls the first live broadcast of an ice hockey game, the third period of an Ontario Hockey League Intermediate playoff game on the Toronto station CFCA. February 9 – Billy Hughes resigns as Prime Minister of Australia, Hughes is succeeded by his Treasurer, Stanley Bruce. February 23 – Albert Einstein visits Barcelona, Spain, at the invitation of scientist Esteban Terradas i Illa, march 1 The USS Connecticut is decommissioned. March 3 – This is the date of the first issue of Time magazine. Retired U. S. Speaker of the House Joseph G. Cannon appears on the first cover, march 6 – The Egyptian Feminist Union, the first nationwide feminist movement in Egypt, was founded at the home of activist Huda Shaarawi. March 9 – Vladimir Lenin suffers his third stroke, which renders him bedridden and unable to speak, march 28 – Regia Aeronautica, the air force of Fascist Italy, is founded. April 4 – Warner Bros. film studio is formally incorporated in the United States as Warner Brothers Pictures, april 6 Louis Armstrong makes his first recording, Chimes Blues, with King Olivers Creole Jazz Band. The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, april 12 – Kandersteg International Scout Centre comes into existence in Switzerland. April 18 Yankee Stadium opens its doors as the park of the New York Yankees baseball team in The Bronx. Russian professional sports society club, Dynamo Moscow founded, april 19 Hjalmar Branting leaves office as Prime Minister of Sweden, after the Swedish Riksdag has rejected a government proposal regarding unemployment benefits. Right-wing academic and jurist Ernst Trygger becomes Prime Minister of Sweden, Egyptian Constitution of 1923 adopted, introducing a parliamentary system of democracy in the country. April 23 – The Gdynia seaport is inaugurated on the Polish Corridor, april 26 – Prince Albert, Duke of York marries Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in Westminster Abbey. April 28 – The original Wembley Stadium opened its doors for the first time to the British public staging the FA Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham Utd, may 1 – Rahula College is established in Ceylon with the name of Parakramabhahu Vidyalaya. May 8 – Liseberg, an amusement park in Gothenburg, Sweden, may 9 Southeastern Michigan receives a record 15 centimetres of snow after temperatures plummeted from 17 to 1 degrees between 1 and 6 pm on the previous day
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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1921 in the United States
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Events from the year 1921 in the United States. January 2 – The first religious radio broadcast is heard over station, january 21 – The full-length silent comedy-drama film The Kid, written, produced, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, with Jackie Coogan, is released. March 4 – Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as the 29th President of the United States, April 20 – Ferenc Molnárs play Liliom is first produced on Broadway in English. May 19 – The Emergency Quota Act passes the U. S. Congress, may 31 – Tulsa Race Riot, The official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher. July 2 – U. S. President Warren Harding signs a joint congressional resolution declaring an end to Americas state of war with Germany, Austria and Hungary. July 11 – Former President of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States, July 14 – A Massachusetts jury finds Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti guilty of first degree murder following a widely publicized trial. July 26 – U. S. President Warren G. Harding receives Princess Fatima of Afghanistan, august – The United States formally ends World War I, declaring a peace with Germany. August 5 – The first radio baseball game is broadcast, Harold Arlin announces the Pirates-Phillies game from Forbes Field over Westinghouse KDKA, august 11 – Franklin D. Roosevelts paralytic illness strikes while he is vacationing on Campobello Island, he is diagnosed with polio. August 25–September 2 – An uprising of striking miners in West Virginia leads to the Battle of Blair Mountain. September 7 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant is held, September 8 – Sixteen-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageants Golden Mermaid trophy, pageant officials later dub her the first Miss America. September 13 – White Castle hamburger restaurant opens in Wichita, Kansas, October 8 – The first Sweetest Day is staged in Cleveland, Ohio. November 11 – During an Armistice Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, december 13 – In the Four Power Treaty on Insular Possessions, Japan, the United States, United Kingdom, and France agree to recognize the status quo in the Pacific. The DeYoung Museum opens in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, centre Colleges football team, led by quarterback Bo McMillin, defeats Harvard University 6–0 to snap Harvards five-year winning streak. For decades afterward, this is called footballs upset of the century, Jewish immigration to Palestine grows rapidly. Before this, Jews preferred the USA, but the USA drastically limited immigration from Eastern Europe, the Tau Epsilon Chi Jewish high school sorority is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Senator from Texas from 1971 to 1993 February 17 – Duane Gish, biochemist and academic March 27 – Tom Bevill, representative from Alabama from 1967 to 1997 March 31 – Peggy Rea, television actress April 21 – John R. S. Michael Rogers, general July 18 – John Glenn, first U. S. astronaut to orbit Earth, senator from Ohio from 1974 to 1999 July 22 – William V. Roth, Jr. U. S. S. Senator from Kentucky from 1907 to 1913 March 29 Levi Ankeny, senator from Louisiana from 1891 to 1894 May 26 – Donald Evans, poet, publisher, music critic and journalist June 12 – Murphy J. Foster, U. S
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1922 in the United States
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Events from the year 1922 in the United States. January 28 – Snowfall from the Knickerbocker storm, the biggest-ever recorded snowstorm in Washington, D. C. causes the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre to collapse, February 3 – American actor William Desmond Taylor is murdered. February 24 – Leser v. Garnett, A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, march 20 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier. April 7 – Teapot Dome scandal, The United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming, april 13 – The State of Massachusetts opens all public offices to women. April 22 – The Lambda Chapter of the Joe Whelan Sorority, may 5 – In the Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium. May 11 – Radio station KGU begins broadcasting in Hawaii, may 12 – A 20-ton meteorite lands near Blackstone, Virginia. May 30 – In Washington, D. C. the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated, june 11 – Première of Robert J. Flahertys Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film. June 14 – U. S. President Warren G. Harding makes his first speech on the radio, july 11 – The Hollywood Bowl opens. She will not take office till November 21, and will serve for only one day. November 12 – Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated is founded by 7 educators in Indianapolis, the group becomes an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30,1929, when a charter is granted to the Alpha Chapter at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Molly Pitcher Club is formed to promote the repeal of Prohibition in the United States, the California grizzly bear becomes extinct. Lochner era U. S. occupation of Haiti Prohibition Roaring Twenties January 1 – Ernest Hollings, Senator from North Dakota in 1992 February 10 – Harold Hughes, U. S. S. Blanchard, United States Senator from Louisiana from 1904 to 1908 August 1 – Francis S. White, United States Senator from Alabama from 1914 to 1915 August 23 – Albert J
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1924 in the United States
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Events from the year 1924 in the United States. February 12 – Rhapsody in Blue, by George Gershwin, is first performed in New York City at Aeolian Hall, february 14 – IBM is founded in New York State. February 16–February 26 – Dock strikes break out in various U. S. harbors, february 22 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House. March 8 – The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners in Utah, april 16 – American media company Metro Goldwyn Mayer is founded in Los Angeles, California. May 3 – The Aleph Zadik Aleph, the oldest Jewish youth fraternity, is founded in Omaha, may 10 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. May 21 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, june 2 – U. S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States. June 12 – Rondout Heist, Six men of the Egans Rats gang rob a train in Rondout, Illinois. June 23 – American airman Russell L. Maughan flies from New York to San Francisco in 21 hours and 48 minutes on a flight in a Curtiss pursuit. September 9 – The Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii, october 10 – The Alpha Delta Gamma Fraternity is founded at the Lake Shore Campus of Loyola University, Chicago. November 4 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first woman governor in the United States, U. S. presidential election,1924, Republican Calvin Coolidge defeats Democrat John W. Davis and Progressive U. S. La Follette Sr. November 19 – In Los Angeles, California, famous silent film director Thomas H. Ince dies, reportedly of a heart attack, November 27 – In New York City the first Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade is held. December 1 – George Gershwins Lady Be Good and Fascinating Rhythm premiere in New York City, alice Vanderbilt Morris, a wealthy heiress, founds the International Auxiliary Language Association in New York City U. S. bootleggers begin to use Thompson submachine guns. The Earth Inductor Compass is invented in New York City, lochner era U. S. occupation of Haiti Prohibition Roaring Twenties List of American films of 1924 Media related to 1924 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons
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1925 in the United States
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Events from the year 1925 in the United States. President, Calvin Coolidge Vice President, vacant, Charles G. Dawes Chief Justice, William Howard Taft Speaker of the House of Representatives, Frederick H. January 27 – February 1 – The 1925 serum run to Nome relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U. S. territory of Alaska, February 21 – First issue of The New Yorker magazine is published by Harold Ross. March 4 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio, march 15 – The Phi Lambda Chi fraternity is founded on the campus of Arkansas State Teachers College in Conway, Arkansas. March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado rampages through Missouri, Illinois and it hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois, Gorham, Illinois, Ellington, Missouri, and Griffin, Indiana. The storms damage path was indicated at 378 km, march 21 – Tennessee Governor Austin Peay signs the Butler Act, prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the states public schools. March 31 – Radio station WOWO in Ft. Wayne, Indiana begins broadcasting, april 1 – Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leave Washington, D. C. to begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states. April 10 – F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby, may 5 – Scopes Trial, Dayton, Tennessee, biology teacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwins Theory of Evolution. June 6 – The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler, June 13 – Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of pictures and sound, using 48 lines, and a mechanical system. A 10-minute film of a windmill in motion is sent across 5 miles from Anacostia to Washington. The images are viewed by representatives of the National Bureau of Standards, the U. S. Navy, the Commerce Department, Jenkins calls this the first public demonstration of radiovision. July 21 – Scopes Trial, In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class, August 14 – The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line. September 3 – The U. S. Navy dirigible Shenandoah breaks up in a line over Ohio en route to Scottfield. October 2 made color TV November 28 – The weekly country music radio program Grand Ole Opry is first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, december 16 – Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity, is founded at Lafayette College. New York City becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from London, the motel concept originates with the Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo, California, originally called the Milestone Mo-Tel, constructed by Arthur Heineman. The National Football League adds 5 teams, the New York Giants, Detroit Panthers, Providence Steam Roller, a new Canton Bulldogs team, Calvin Coolidge signs into law the act establishing a U. S. Senator from North Carolina from 1975 to 1981 October 7 – Mildred Earp, baseball player October 11 – Elmore Leonard, novelist October 13 – Lenny Bruce, comic October 16 – Daniel J. Evans, U. S. S. Senator from Idaho from 1890 to 1891 June 1 – Thomas R. Marshall, 28th Vice President of the United States from 1913 to 1921 August 7 – George Gray, U. S
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Flag of the United States
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The flag of the United States, often referred to as the American flag, is the national flag of the United States. S. Nicknames for the flag include The Stars and Stripes, Old Glory, the current design of the U. S. flag is its 27th, the design of the flag has been modified officially 26 times since 1777. The 48-star flag was in effect for 47 years until the 49-star version became official on July 4,1959, the 50-star flag was ordered by the then president Eisenhower on August 21,1959, and was adopted in July 1960. It is the version of the U. S. flag and has been in use for over 56 years. At the time of the Declaration of Independence in July 1776, the flag contemporaneously known as the Continental Colors has historically been referred to as the first national flag. The name Grand Union was first applied to the Continental Colors by George Preble in his 1872 history of the American flag, the flag closely resembles the British East India Company flag of the era, and Sir Charles Fawcett argued in 1937 that the company flag inspired the design. Both flags could have been constructed by adding white stripes to a British Red Ensign. However, an East India Company flag could have nine to 13 stripes. In any case, both the stripes and the stars have precedents in classical heraldry, Flag Day is now observed on June 14 of each year. While scholars still argue about this, tradition holds that the new flag was first hoisted in June 1777 by the Continental Army at the Middlebrook encampment. The first official U. S. flag flown during battle was on August 3,1777, Massachusetts reinforcements brought news of the adoption by Congress of the official flag to Fort Schuyler. A voucher is extant that Capt. Swartwout of Dutchess County was paid by Congress for his coat for the flag, the 1777 resolution was most probably meant to define a naval ensign. In the late 18th century, the notion of a flag did not yet exist. The flag resolution appears between other resolutions from the Marine Committee, on May 10,1779, Secretary of the Board of War Richard Peters expressed concern it is not yet settled what is the Standard of the United States. However, the term, Standard, referred to a standard for the Army of the United States. Each regiment was to carry the standard in addition to its regimental standard. The national standard was not a reference to the national or naval flag, the appearance was up to the maker of the flag. Some flag makers arranged the stars into one big star, in a circle or in rows, one arrangement features 13 five-pointed stars arranged in a circle, with the stars arranged pointing outwards from the circle, the so-called Betsy Ross flag
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Timeline of United States history
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This is a timeline of United States history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political and economic events in the United States and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of the United States, some dates before September 14,1752, when the British government adopted the Gregorian calendar, may be given in the Old Style
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Federal government of the United States
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The Federal Government of the United States is the national government of the United States, a republic in North America, composed of 50 states, one district, Washington, D. C. and several territories. The federal government is composed of three branches, legislative, executive, and judicial, whose powers are vested by the U. S. Constitution in the Congress, the President, and the courts, including the Supreme Court. The powers and duties of these branches are defined by acts of Congress. The full name of the republic is United States of America, no other name appears in the Constitution, and this is the name that appears on money, in treaties, and in legal cases to which it is a party. The terms Government of the United States of America or United States Government are often used in documents to represent the federal government as distinct from the states collectively. In casual conversation or writing, the term Federal Government is often used, the terms Federal and National in government agency or program names generally indicate affiliation with the federal government. Because the seat of government is in Washington, D. C, Washington is commonly used as a metonym for the federal government. The outline of the government of the United States is laid out in the Constitution, the government was formed in 1789, making the United States one of the worlds first, if not the first, modern national constitutional republics. The United States government is based on the principles of federalism and republicanism, some make the case for expansive federal powers while others argue for a more limited role for the central government in relation to individuals, the states or other recognized entities. For example, while the legislative has the power to create law, the President nominates judges to the nations highest judiciary authority, but those nominees must be approved by Congress. The Supreme Court, in its turn, has the power to invalidate as unconstitutional any law passed by the Congress and these and other examples are examined in more detail in the text below. The United States Congress is the branch of the federal government. It is bicameral, comprising the House of Representatives and the Senate, the House currently consists of 435 voting members, each of whom represents a congressional district. The number of each state has in the House is based on each states population as determined in the most recent United States Census. All 435 representatives serve a two-year term, each state receives a minimum of one representative in the House. There is no limit on the number of terms a representative may serve, in addition to the 435 voting members, there are six non-voting members, consisting of five delegates and one resident commissioner. In contrast, the Senate is made up of two senators from each state, regardless of population, there are currently 100 senators, who each serve six-year terms
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