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Events relating to north america
Scott FitzGerald publishes his novel The Great Gatsby, set in a contemporary world of lavish indulgence underpinned by crime
DuBose Heyward publishes his first novel, Porgy, set in Charleston's Catfish Row
26-year-old Al Capone takes over the Johnny Torrio gangster organization in Chicago
House by the Railroad, by US painter Edward Hopper, introduces a new style of urban realism
The Broadway revue Garrick Gaieties is the first big success for Rodgers and Hart
Biology teacher John Scopes is prosecuted for breaking state law by teaching evolution to his class of children in Dayton, Tennessee
Film actress Greta Garbo and her director Maurits Stiller move from Sweden to Hollywood
A round table at the Algonquin Hotel in New York becomes famous for its collection of wits
African-American singer and dancer Josephine Baker is jazz hot in La Revue Nègre in Paris
Soldiers Pay is the first published novel of the Mississippi author William Faulkner
Don Juan, starring John Barrymore, has a synchronized musical score, making it the earliest example of a film with a sound track
Dorothy Parker has a best-seller with her first collection of verse, Enough Rope
Jelly Roll Morton and his new group of seven, the Red Hot Peppers, record their first classic, Black Bottom Stomp
Ely Culbertson devotes his playing skill and his promotional abilities to the new contract version of bridge
23-year-old US crooner Bing Crosby makes his first record, singing I''ve Got the Girl with the Paul Whiteman band
US author Ernest Hemingway succeeds with his second novel, The Sun also Rises (also known as Fiesta)
Archaeologists, excavating the bison remains at Folsom, find an ancient spear point embedded in the skeleton - first proof of the Folsom culture
US dancer and choreographer Martha Graham opens a School of Contemporary Dance in New York
Clara Bow stars in It, the silent film that gives her her famous nickname – the 'It' Girl
Mae West is sentenced to eight days in gaol when Sex, written, produced and starred in by herself on Broadway, is judged to be obscene
US author Thornton Wilder achieves world-wide success with his second novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
US aviator Charles Lindbergh, in his single-engine plane Spirit of St Louis, flies solo across the Atlantic from New York to Paris
US golfer Walter Hagen wins his fifth PGA Championship, and the fourth in succession
DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy, dramatized with a new title by himself and his wife Dorothy, has a great success on Broadway and in London
Gutzon Borglum begins the massive task of carving portraits of four US presidents in the rock face at Mount Rushmore
