New York overturned its liquor prohibition laws, motivating Washington to to send federal agents into the state to enforce the national ban on alcohol.
President Harding — who was was caught up scandals because several of his appointees had been proven corrupt — died of food poisoning while touring the west. Vice President Calvin Coolidge assumed the post August 10th.
Colonel Jacob Schick obtained a patent for the first electric shaving device.
Time Magazine began weekly publication.
Oklahoma Governor John Calloway placed his state under martial law because of the terrorist activities of the secretive Ku Klux Klan.
The Westinghouse Company successfully broadcast on the shortwave band, "skipping" the signal off the planet's Kennelly-Heaviside layer, resulting in confirmed reception in Europe and Africa.
The song and dance, The Charleston, kicked off a social partying attitude that helped the decade become known as "the Roaring '20s." Other popular songs included Yes! We Have No Bananas!, Sonny Boy and Barney Google.
