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- Calvin Coolidge said, "The business of America is business"
- T.S. Eliot wrote: "This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper"
- "Dinah" and "Sweet Georgia Brown" were hit songs
- Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington made their first recordings
- Lawrence Welk started a new band
- F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby
- Adolph Hitler wrote Mein Kampf
- The first working television set was produced by Charles Jenkins
- Rogers Hornsby won the triple crown in baseball
- Nellie Ross, of Wyoming, became the nation's first female governor
- "Rin Tin Tin" and "The Phantom of the Opera" opened at movie theaters
- 40,000 KKKers marched in Washington, D.C.
- Flagpole sitting became a national fad
- Earl Wise invented the potato chip
