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Events relating to north america
The Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees women the right to vote
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart work together as Columbia University students, creating the musical Fly With Me
Artists dedicated to celebrating the Canadian landscape come together as the Group of Seven
Charles Ives publishes his Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840-60, usually known as the Concord Sonata
D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love, a continuation of the family story in The Rainbow, is published first in the USA
Douglas Fairbanks makes the first of his swashbuckling adventure movies, The Mark of Zorro
The marriage of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks is a Hollywood sensation after a three-year affair
Warren Harding wins the US presidential election for the Republicans
The American novelist Sinclair Lewis has his first major success with Main Street, an unflattering portrayal of American village life
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
Marianne Moore calls her first published collection simply Poems
Eugene O'Neill's play Anna Christie is performed in New York
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
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
German film director Ernst Lubitsch moves to Hollywood, at the request of Mary Pickford
