Due to cost-saving assembly-line production, the price of a basic Model T Ford dropped to $290. Ford produced its 10-millionth automobile.
Calvin Coolidge was re-elected president.
J. Edgar Hoover was appointed to head up the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings, a controversial play about an inter-racial relationship, opened in New York. Paul Robeson starred.
2½-million radios were in American households. Only 500 receivers existed in 1920.
Jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, who pioneered the use of impressionistic harmonies in jazz, had the only hit record of his lifetime, Tiger Rag. Despite a large recorded output, Beiderbecke's talents would not be appreciated until after his death from alcohol poisoning in 1931.
