President:
Pres: Woodrow Wilson
Pres: Warren G. Harding inaugurated
General
- Crime: Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle accused of raping and accidentally killing actress Virginia Rappe – acquitted but career suffered to 1932
President Harding commutes Eugene Debs' 10-year sentence
- Culture: Eugenics philosopher Bertrand Russell proposes organized plagues against the black population
- Entertainment: Josephine Baker performs
- Finance: Bureau of the Budget created
US economy depressed with five million unemployed
Andrew Mellon named Secretary of the Treasury
- Law: Immigration restricted
Former President Taft named Chief Justice of Supreme Court
- Military: Veterans Bureau created
- Politics: Washington Naval Conference begins
US finally declares peace with Germany
US Government follows policy of isolation in refusing to join League of Nations
- Sports: First radio broadcast of World Series
East
- New York: First radio broadcast of baseball game
- Pennsylvania: Radio station KDKA in Pittsburg becomes first regular broadcasting
Death of senator and political boss Boies Penrose
Midwest
South
- General: Ku Klux Klan activites become violent
- Georgia: F4 tornado
- Texas: San Antonio flood
- Virginia: Unknown soldier interred at Arlington
- West Virginia: Federal troops drop bombs on WV miners insurrection at Blair Mountain – Union broken
West and Pacific
- Colorado: Pueblo storm and flood - cloudburst kills 120
75.8 inches of snow falls on Silver Lake
- Oregon: 54 inches of snow falls near the Dalles