Famous People and Events in the 1920´s

Harry Houdini

• Harry Houdini was born in Budapest in March 24 in 1874

• He began a professional magician and began calling himself Harry Houdini.

• Houdini began doing card tricks but then he started making escape acts.

• He was one of the most famous magicians in making escape acts.

Henry Ford• Was an American industrialist, founder of

the Ford Motor Company and developer of the assembly line technique of mass production.

• He introduced the model T automovile into America and revolutionized American industry.

• H e created the Fordism.• He thought that consumerism was the key

to peace

• In 1929 Henry was awarded the Franklin the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal. Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal.

• The United States Postal Service honord The United States Postal Service honord Ford with a Prominent Americans series Ford with a Prominent Americans series

Richard Byrd

• He was an American athlete and baseball player who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

• He won a silver medal participating in a discus throw competition,in a high jump competition he ended fourth

• He was a member of the national baseball team in the summer olimpics,but he only participated in a demostration match.

Joe Jackson

• He was an american baseball player who played in the major league of baseball in the 20th century.

• He is remembered for his performance on the field and for his association with the Black Sox Scandal, in which members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox participated in a conspiracy to fix the World Series.

Rudolph Valentino

• He was an Italian latine lover.• He decided to move to Hollywood

and change his name from Rodolph Guglielmi to Rodolph Valentino, because it was difficult to pronunce.

• June Mathis congratulated him for his movie  Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis. The movie was a sucess and he received the nick “Piernas de Tango”.

• He wasn´t satisfaced with the money he earned so he started a tour around the United States as a dancer.

• He died in 1926 when he was 31.

Scopes Monkey Trial

• Was an American legal case in 1925.

• High school biology teacher John Scopes was accused of violating the state's Butler Act which made it unlawful to teach evolution.

• He was found guilty, but the veredict was overturned and Scopes was never brought back to trial.

• The trial brought a lot of publicity and national reporters to the small town of Dayton.