President:
Pres: Woodrow Wilson
Pres: Warren G. Harding elected as "Dark Horse" candidate over James M Cox and SOcialist Eugene V. Debs
General
- Business: End of US coal strike
- Culture: Approximate beginnings of the Harlem Renaissance
Margaret Sanger of Planned Parenthood writes that killing members of large families is merciful
- Education: End of reformation of children's books
- Entertainment: Westinghouse Company opens first American broadcasting station (radio) - KDKA
- Finance: Start of three-year depression
- Law: Women's suffrage with passage of 19th amendment
18th Amendment and prohibition passes
US Transportation Act repeals Sherman Anti-trust Act
- Military: US troops flee from Vladivostok
- Politics: Treaty of Versailles rejected by Congress
US and China sign tariff treaty
- Sports: Ethelda M Bleibtrey wins three gold medals at Antwerp Olympics (first after 8 years)
Original baseball field in Cooperstown NY dedicated as permanent memorial
Babe Ruth sold by Boston Red Sox to NY Yankees - start of "curse"
Man O'War US thoroughbred put out to stud after winning 20/21 races
- Transportation: First airmail from NY to San Francisco
East
- Massachusetts: Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti arrested for murder of two
- New York: Bomb attempt at JP Morgan Bank kills 35 ans wounds 130
Beniamino Gigli makes debut at Met
NY Times article ridicules rockets in space
Midwest
- General: Indiana and Ohio experience 11 tornadoes in area
- Illinois: Chicago becomes center of jazz music
Tornadoes hit Chicago leaving millions in damage
South
- General: Tornadoes
- Florida: Northern lights visible
- Oklahoma: Peggs hit with F4 tornado and destroyed
West and Pacific
- Utah: Former president Taft 6th visit to Utah to support Reed Smoot
Smoot backs Harding for president – suggested that he would get cabinet post but declines
Smoot convinces Harding that Hoover be named Secretary of Commerce
Lehi dairy farmers first ship via electric rail to Salt Lake City (Elisha Peck Jr. named as party)