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THE ROARING 20's
November 2, 1920 – First radio broadcast by KDKA Pittsburgh
March 15, 1922 – WSB Radio makes its debut broadcast (To the left is a picture of the telegram authorizing WSB to begin broadcasting. It hangs on the wall of the new WSB building to this day. Click on the photo to enlarge.)
1922 - WSB Station ID by General Manager Lambdin Kay Click here to play
1922 -Click here for a sample of Fiddlin' John Carson's famous song Little Old Log Cabin first broadcast on WSB Radio March 23, 1922.
1922 Lincoln Memorial opens to the public
1923 The USSR becomes a formal entity under Lenin
1924 Lenin dies – Stalin succeeds him
November 1924 Macy's moves to Herald Square and offers its first Thanksgiving Day Parade.
1925 – 40,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan march on Washington
1925 Clarence Darrow of the ACLU defends John Scopes in the Scopes ``Monkey'' Trial. Scopes is on trial for teaching evolution to high school students. He is convicted.
March 1926 - WSB Radio studios move to Atlanta's Biltmore Hotel (Atlanta Journal front page announcing the move hangs on the wall of the new WSB building to this day. Click on the image to enlarge.)
1926 In Italy, Benito Mussolini makes fascism the state party. Emperor Hirohiot comes to power in Japan
1927 Cheers greet the Spirit of St. Louis when Charles Lindbergh lands this plane in Paris. It is the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight in the history of aviation.
1927 In baseball, Babe Ruth sets a new record, hitting sixty home runs in a season. Ruth's record will stand for thirty years.
February 14, 1929 In the fight for control of the bootleg liquor trade in Prohibition Chicago, 7 gang members are killed in the St. Valentine's Day massacre.
October 29, 1929 On Wall Street, the stock market crashes on October 29, and $30 billion disappears, ushering in the Great Depression.
1929 The first round-the-world flight ever is completed by the airship Graf Zeppelin, named for its inventor.
1929 Penicillin, discovered by Alexander Fleming, is first used to fight infection, a landmark in the history of medicine.
The people of WSB in the 20's - click here for our listings
Pictures from the 1920s - click here for historic photos of WSB and its people in the 1920s.
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