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### *POP*Culture: 1920

**ICONS:** Radio Broadcasting, Charlie Chaplin, Charles Lindbergh
                          - 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 |
|--------------------|--------|-------------------------|
| 106,021,537        |
| 29.9               | 1      | New York City, NY       | 5,620,048 |
| 15.0               | 2      | Chicago, IL             | 2,701,705 |
| January 1          | 3      | Philadelphia, PA        | 1,823,779 |
| 48                 | 4      | Detroit, MI             | 993,078 |
| $25,117,000        | 5      | Cleveland, OH           | 796,841 |
| 23.7               | 6      | St. Louis, MO           | 772,897 |
| 14,550             | 7      | Boston, MA              | 748,060 |
| 87,234             | 8      | Baltimore, MD           | 733,826 |
| Samuel Lyle Rogers | 9      | Pittsburgh, PA          | 588,343 |
| 34                 | 10     | Los Angeles, CA         | 576,673 |
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