The marriage of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks is a Hollywood sensation after a three-year affair

Warren Harding wins the US presidential election for the Republicans

The American novelist Sinclair Lewis has his first major success with Main Street, an unflattering portrayal of American village life

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is paralyzed from the waist down by polio

Italian immigrant anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are convicted of murder in a US trial flawed by prejudice

Tulsa race riots cap previous levels of violence, with more than eighty-five blacks killed

Italian sex symbol Rudolph Valentino has two sensational hits within the same year, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and The Sheik

Marianne Moore calls her first published collection simply Poems

Eugene O'Neill's play Anna Christie is performed in New York

The first of America's 'unknown soldiers' is placed in the new Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery

De Witt Wallace and his wife, working from home, publish the first issue of Reader's Digest

Robert J. Flaherty lives with the Inuit in the Arctic to make his dramatized documentary Nanook of the North

The US architectural critic Lewis Mumford publishes The Story of Utopias, the first of his many influential works

Sinclair Lewis creates an archetypal character in George Folanshee Babbitt, a real-estate broker in the midwestern town of Zenith

Linus Pauling, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, begins theoretical work on the nature of the chemical bond

The Broadway show Ziegfeld Follies features an exciting new dance, the Charleston

The Teapot Dome scandal reveals corruption in the administration of US president Warren Harding

German film director Ernst Lubitsch moves to Hollywood, at the request of Mary Pickford

Henry Luce has an immediate success with a new magazine, calling it simply Time

Bessie Smith has a big hit with her first record, Downhearted Blues, selling two million copies within a year

Marcel Duchamp completes his large glass construction The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even

Wallace Stevens' first collection, Harmonium, sells 100 copies

Robert Frost publishes a new collection of poems, New Hampshire

The US poet e.e. cummings publishes his first collection, Tulips and Chimneys

US poet Edna St Vincent Millay publishes The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems