Mexican president Venustiano Carranza is assassinated. Events KDKA, a Pittsburgh Westinghouse station, transmits the first commercial radio broadcast. Eugene O'Neill's first full-length play, Beyond the Horizon , is produced on Broadway and wins a Pulitzer Prize marking the beginning of modern American drama. Rising popular interest in African-American literature sparks the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance.
Speakeasies replace saloons as the center of social activity.
The Smithsonian Institution announces Robert Goddard's work with rockets. Inc. All Rights Reserved.