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United States
In the 1920’s, it became more acceptable for women to smoked, drink alcohol, and danced. Towards the end of the 1921,standard fashion] was skirts/dress that reached knee length and bobbed their hair with marcel wave. Women involved in these actions were known as flappers.

Maybe it goes with independence,earing your own living and voting and all that.”
 * Elders were shocked by this new lifestyle.

South America
In the 1920’s foreign oil companies operated throughout South America. Venezuela, for instance became the second world oil producers.

Yearly Sports Highlights
1920

-January 24, the Grand Prix de Paris switch its name to the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. (Horse race)

- February 13, The Negro National League is created. (Baseball)

-August 17, Ray Chapman from the Cleveland Indians' is killed by Carl Mays pitch. (Baseball)

-August 20, the National Football League is founded. (American Football)

1921

- March 26, 1929, The schooner Bluenose trigger her undefeated career in racing,

successfully winning the International Fisherman's Trophy. (Racing Ship and Fishing Vessel)

1923

- May 26, the 24 hours of Le Mans conduct their first race. (Sports Car Race)

1924

- May 4, the Summer Olympics is hosted by France

- July 10-13, Paavo Nurmi wins 5 gold medals in the Summer Olympics. (Track and field)

- January 25, the First Winter Olympic Games took place in France.

1925

- May 28, French Open invited non-French tennis athletes for the first time. (Tennis)

- Germany and Belgium first handball international tournament. (Handball)

1926

- August 6, Gertrude Ederle swims the English Channel and is the first women to do so. (Swimming)

- September 23, Gene Tunney wins Jack Dempsey world heavyweight boxing title. (Boxing) 2

1927

- June 3, the First Ryder Cup tournaments were held Massachusetts US. (Golf)

1928

- July 28, Women’s Olympic took place for the first time in the 1928 Summer Olympics

- William Ralph "Dixie" Dean won the Football League, scores 60 goals in 39 matches as

Everton F.C. (English Football.)

1929 - At an average of 113.12 and scores 905 runs, Wally Hammond defeats Australia in The Ashes series (Test Cricket)

Scott, R. (2012). 1920s Sports. 1920's Sport and Sporting Stars. Retrieved November 24, 2013, from http://www.1920-30.com/sports

Literature
Margaret Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa in 1928

William Butler Yeats

Robert Lee Frost publishes New Hampshire 1923 and West-Running Brook in 1928

Musicians
Bessie Smith

Science
Georges Lemaître

Edwin Powell Hubble

Entertainers
Anna May Wong

Sports Figures
Francisco Guilledo Filipino boxer.

World leaders
King of Ras Tafari (Ethiopia)

Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog (Union of South Africa)

President Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa (Brazil)

President Hipólito Yrigoyen (Argentina)

Politics
Harry Thuku helped to found the Young Kikuyu Association in Kenya.

Zaccheus Richard Mahabane and Josiah Tshangana Gumede President of the African National Congress