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| 1920 | Jan. 10: Treaty of Versailles takes effect, redrawing map of Europe and imposing punitive reparations on Germany | |
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Feb. 13-14: Andrew "Rube" Foster and a group of Black baseball club owners form the Negro National League | |
| 1922 | April 3: Joseph Stalin elected General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party | |
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Nov. 26: Excavation begins on the tomb of ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamen near Luxor, Egypt | |
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Dec. 30: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics officially proclaimed | |
| 1923 | African American inventor Garrett A. Morgan patents the first automatic traffic signal | |
| Sept: Major earthquake destroys Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan, killing 143,000 | ||
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Jan. 25: First winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, France |
| April 6: Rigged elections give Benito Mussolini's Fascist Party a huge majority in the Italian parliament | ||
| Nov. 30: Photographs sent in twenty minutes by radio from London to New York City | ||
| 1925 | George Washington Carver receives patents for manufacture of paints and stains from clays and minerals | |
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July 18: Paris Exposition opens, providing a venue for and giving name to "art deco" | |
| 1926 | May 1: British coal miners go on strike, leading to nationwide strike by millions of trade-union members | |
| 1927 | Jan. 6: Wireless communication between London and New York City is established for public use | |
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May 21: Charles Lindbergh arrives in Paris and is greeted by ecstatic crowds after a 33 hour non-stop flight from New York City | |
| 1928 | April 24-June 8: Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek captures Peking, effectively ending centuries of control of Northern China by feudal warlords | |
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Oct. 29: "Black Tuesday," the American stock market crashes plunging the country into the Great Depression |
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