| Year Summary | <strong>In the UK</strong>: The Monarch is King George V. Prime Minister is Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) until 16 January, then Ramsay MacDonald (Labour) until 4 November, then it's Stanley Baldwin again. The Olympics are in Paris. The Sunday Express is the first newspaper to publish a crossword.<br /><strong>In USA</strong>: The President is Calvin Coolidge (R-Massachusetts), who is the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House. There is no vice-President. It's the Prohibition era (1919–1933) and the Roaring Twenties (1920–1929). J. Edgar Hoover is becomes head of the FBI. Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) is founded in California. It's the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. |
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