Four Score And Seven Years Ago

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It was 1922.

January 24 – Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.
February 2 – Ulysses, by James Joyce, is published in Paris on his 40th birthday by Sylvia Beach.
February 5 – DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest.
President of the United States Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
February 27 – A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
March 4 The movie Nosferatu was released.
March 11 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay for sedition.
March 18 – In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to 6 years in prison for sedition (he serves only 2 years).
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.
The first midair collision occurs, between a Daimler Airway de Havilland DH.18 and a Compagnie des Grands Express Aériens Farman Goliath over Poix-de-Picardie, Amiens, France.
April 13 – The State of Massachusetts opens all public offices to women.
May 5 – In The Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium.

Lots more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922