The Modern Short Story



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The Modern Short Story

1917

  • The first jazz recording is released by Victor.

  • The United States declares war on Germany, entering World War I.

  • United States men between the ages of 21 and 30 are required to register for possible military service.

  • The Eighteenth Amendment passed by U. S. Congress prohibits the manufacture, sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages.

  • The tank is developed and introduced in World War I.

  • Bobbed hair is popular in the United States.


1918

  • The O. Henry Awards are created to honor short stories.

  • The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.

  • Airmail service begins between Washington, D.C. and New York for 24 cents.

  • Czar Nicholas II and family are executed by order of Lenin.

  • The Sedition Act of 1918 criminalizes saying, writing, printing, or publishing anything disloyal or profane about the American military action in World War I.

  • Ernest Hemingway is wounded while working as an ambulance driver in WWI.

  • World War I ends in November leaving more than 10 million dead.

  • Spanish Influenza kills 22 million people worldwide.

  • The Negro World begins publishing in Harlem.

  • Women’s Suffrage is granted in Britain.



1919

  • The American Telephone and Telegraph Company introduces dial telephones.

  • The New York Daily News begins publication in New York.

  • The first commercial flight travels between Paris and London.

  • In Italy, Benito Mussolini founds a new party and publishes a Fascist manifesto.

  • Lady Astor becomes the first woman elected to the British Parliament.

  • Race riots take place in Chicago (US) and Liverpool (UK)

  • Babe Ruth joins the Yankees.


1920

  • The U.S. Congress ratifies the Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote.

  • The first commercial radio broadcast airs.

  • Eight Chicago White Sox players are accused of fixing the 1919 World Series.

  • U.S. census report shows urban population exceeding rural population.

  • The League of Nations is established.

  • Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are arrested.

  • Prohibition goes into effect in the United States

  • Eugene O'Neill wins the Pulitzer Prize for drama.


1921

  • The first American Museum of Modern Art opens in Washington D.C. .

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt contracts polio.

  • The Ku Klux Klan reemerges as a power in the South

  • Police in a Pennsylvania town require women to wear skirts at least four inches below the knee.

  • The Irish Free State is proclaimed.

  • Margaret Sanger successfully opens an abortion clinic

  • Albert Einstein wins the Nobel Prize.


1922

  • The Communist Party is formed in China.

  • Mahatma Gandhi is imprisoned for advocating civil disobedience to resist British colonial presence in India.

  • Kemal Atatürk founds modern Turkey.

  • King Tut's tomb is discovered.

  • Benito Mussolini forms Fascist government in Italy.

  • Reader’s Digest is first published


1923

  • The Nazi Party convenes for the first time in Munich.

  • Faced with severe economic problems, bread riots break out in Dresden, Germany.

  • Louis Armstrong records his first album.

  • Dance marathons become popular in the United States.

  • Hitler is jailed after a failed coup.

  • French and Belgian forces occupy Ruhr.

  • Talking movies are invented.

  • Teapot Dome scandal hearings begin in Washington D.C.

  • Time magazine is founded.


1924

  • Calvin Coolidge is elected President of the U.S.

  • Gorge Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken found the American Mercury magazine.

  • The first Winter Olympics are held in Chamonix, France.

  • Greek King George II is disposed and Greece becomes a Republic.

  • Miriam Ferguson of Texas becomes the first woman elected Governor in the United States.


1925

  • The New Yorker begins publication.

  • Tennessee passes a bill to ban the teaching of evolution in schools. Later this year, John Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution and fined $100.

  • A show in Paris calls attention to Art Deco, a trend toward simplified lines and solid forms in the visual arts.

  • Women in the United States wear the dropped-waist “flapper dress.”


1926

  • The first transatlantic radiotelephone conversation between New York and London takes place.

  • A Scottish inventor introduces the first television.

  • Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis is shown in Berlin.

  • The magazine Amazing Stories begins publishing science fiction stories.

  • Marianne Moore becomes editor of Dial.


1927

  • The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a Texas law excluding Blacks from voting in Democratic Primaries.

  • Sacco and Vanzetti are put to death despite massive protests by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Albert Einstein, Jane Addams and H.G. Wells.

  • Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs for the New York Yankees

  • Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic in The Spirit of St. Louis.

  • The German economic system crashes on a day known as “Black Friday”


1928

  • In Schenectady, New York, the first American home acquires a TV set.

  • The first television listings appear in the New York Times.

  • Bubble gum is invented.

  • Penicillin is discovered.

  • Amelia Earhart flies across the Atlantic in the Friendship.


1929

  • Construction of the Empire State Building begins.

  • The New York City Board of Education announces that the word Negro should be spelled with a capital N.

  • September 3: The bull market peaks in the U.S

  • October 29: "Black Tuesday," the stock market crashes.

  • Unemployment rises from 700,000 to 3.1 million in the U.S.

  • Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opens in New York City with works by Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat, and Van Gogh.


1930

  • Emigration from the United States exceeds immigration for the first time in American history.

  • Gandhi's Salt March.

  • Pluto is discovered.

  • Stalin begins collectivizing agriculture in the U.S.S.R.



  • 1931

  • Nevada legalizes gambling and implements a six-week residency period for divorces.

  • Jane Addams is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • “The Star Spangled Banner'' becomes the American national anthem by order of Congress.

  • The New England Telephone and Telegraph Company lays off all its married women workers.

  • The Empire State Building is opened to the public.

  • Al Capone is imprisoned for income tax evasion.


1932

  • Edwin Herbert Land invents Polaroid film.

  • Air conditioning is invented.

  • Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

  • Lindbergh's baby is kidnapped.

  • Scientists split the atom.


1933

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt launches the New Deal.

  • The Chicago World’s Fair, themed "A Century of Progress" opens.

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.

  • Nazis establish the first concentration camp.

  • Prohibition ends in the U.S.


1934

  • The FCC is created to moderate U.S. telephone, telegraph, and radio communications.

  • Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are killed by police.

  • The first cheeseburger is served.

  • The Dust Bowl drought begins in Oklahoma.

  • Mao Zedong begins the Long March.

  • Parker Brothers begins to sell the game Monopoly.



1935

  • The WPA (Works Progress Administration) is created to alleviate economic hardship in the United States.

  • The nation’s first public-housing project opens in New York’s Lower East Side.

  • Alcoholics Anonymous is founded.

  • Germany Issues the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws.



1936

  • The WPA employs 3,500 artists, 6,500 writers, and 15,000 musicians.

  • The Hoover Dam is completed.

  • King Edward VIII abdicates the British throne.

  • Nazi Olympics take place in Berlin.

  • The Spanish Civil War begins.

  • Charlie Chaplin directs and stars in the movie Modern Times.

  • Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan.


1937

  • The Golden Gate Bridge near San Francisco is completed.

  • Among the Americans to join forces against Franco in Spain are John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell.

  • Pablo Picasso paints Guernica for the Spanish Pavilion of the 1937 World's Fair.

  • The Hindenberg disaster.

  • Japan invades China.


1938

  • The first live and unscheduled news event, a fire at a barracks in New York, is televised by NBC's mobile television news van.

  • On his Mercury Theater radio show, Orson Wells broadcasts The War of the Worlds, causing panic among listeners.

  • Hitler annexes Austria.


1939

  • The first major league baseball game, featuring the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds, is televised.

  • The first commercial flight crosses the Atlantic.

  • The German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact is signed.

  • World War II begins.

  • Germany invades Poland, annexes Bohemia. Britain and France declare war.

  • Japan occupies Haiti.

  • USSR invades Poland and Finland.

  • New York World's Fair.

  • Judy Garland stars in The Wizard of Oz.


1940

  • Battle of Britain.

  • Nylons are first marketed in the United States.

  • Leon Trotsky is assassinated.







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