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| 1 | 1919 | - 1919: Sherwood Anderson writes Winesburg, Ohio.
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| 2 | 1920 | - 1920: Edith Wharton writes The Age of Innocence.
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| 3 | 1921 | - 1921: James Joyce writes Ulysses.
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| 4 | 1921-1923 | - 1921-1923: Warren Gamaliel Harding, serves as twenty-ninth president of the United States of America.
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| 5 | 1923 | - 1923: First vaccine for diphtheria
- 1923: “Queen of the Blues” Bessie Smith records her first song, “Down Hearted Blues.”
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| 6 | 1923-1929 | - 1923-1929: Calvin Coolidge serves as thirtieth president of the United States of America.
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| 7 | 1924 | - 1924: The Juilliard School opens in New York.
Maurice Ravel's Bolero opens in Paris.
George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres in New York.
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| 8 | 1926 | - 1926: First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough)
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| 9 | 1927 | - 1927: First vaccine for tuberculosis
- 1927: First vaccine for tetanus
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| 10 | 1928 | - 1928: Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
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| 11 | 1929-1933 | - 1929-1933: Herbert Clark Hoover serves as thirty-first president of the United States of America.
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| 12 | 1932 | - 1932: Jazz composer Duke Ellington writes “It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing."
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| 13 | 1933-1945 | - 1933-1945: Franklin Delano Roosevelt serves as thirty-second president of the United States of America.
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| 14 | 1935 | - 1935: First vaccine for yellow fever
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| 15 | 1936 | - 1936: Electric guitars debut.
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| 16 | 1937 | - 1937: First vaccine for typhus
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| 17 | 1939-1945 | |
| 18 | 1941 | - 7 Dec 1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
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| 19 | 1943 | - 1943: Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin
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| 20 | 1945 | - 1945: First vaccine for influenza
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