1920 Fast Facts - History - U.S. Census Bureau

ICONS: Radio Broadcasting, Charlie Chaplin, Charles Lindbergh
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On August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified prohibiting any U.S. citizen from being denied the right to vote based on sex.
KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA, becomes the first radio station to offer regular broadcasts on November 2, 1920.
On March 4, 1921, Congress approved the burial of an unidentified American soldier from World War I in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
Lila Bell and DeWitt Wallace begin publishing Reader's Digest in 1922.
F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby in 1925.
Tennessee school teacher John T. Scopes' trial for teaching Darwin's "Theory of Evolution" begins July 1925.
A. A. Milne publishes his first collection of stories about the character Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926.
Charles Lindbergh lands "Spirit of St. Louis" in Paris on May 21, 1927, successfully completing the first trans-Atlantic flight.
Audiences see the first motion picture with sound The Jazz Singer in 1927.
Ford Motor Company celebrates as the 15 millionth Model T rolls off its Highland Park, MI, assembly line on May 26, 1927.
William Faulkner publishes The Sound and the Fury in 1929.

The 1920 Census		10 Largest Urban Places
U.S. Resident Population:	106,021,537	Rank	Place	Population
Population per square mile of land area:	29.9	1	New York City, NY	5,620,048
Percent increase of population from 1910 to 1920:	15.0	2	Chicago, IL	2,701,705
Official Enumeration Date:	January 1	3	Philadelphia, PA	1,823,779
Number of States:	48	4	Detroit, MI	993,078
Cost:	$25,117,000	5	Cleveland, OH	796,841
Cost per Capita (cents):	23.7	6	St. Louis, MO	772,897
Total Pages in Published Reports:	14,550	7	Boston, MA	748,060
Number of Enumerators:	87,234	8	Baltimore, MD	733,826
Census Bureau Director:	Samuel Lyle Rogers	9	Pittsburgh, PA	588,343
Number of Questions Asked:	34	10	Los Angeles, CA	576,673

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