Similarly, people in Germany were going to have hard time forgetting the weakness that the Weimar Republic was displaying throughout 1919, signing treaties and surviving Sparticist revolutions left right and centre. Perhaps they should have taken a leaf about strong leadership out of Mr Mussolini's book, which was probably available at the time, as he had just founded his Fascist movement. The most important event of 1919 that resonates through history still, however, is the imposition of Oregon's imposition of a tax levy on gasoline, becoming the first US state to do so.

Fucking juvenile is what you lot are, and you will reap your just desserts; unless those aging do-gooders who formed The Child Welfare League of America bail you out.

In 1921, from the ashes of the once great Ottoman Empire, the land of Turkey was formed. This new country took the world by storm, providing all sorts of dubios meat-based products to drunken revellers in every city of the globe.

 

Oh, they made a cool flag, too.

And, as Darren should well know, in 1922 the Irish Free State was founded. And look how well that went!
It was also the year that the first US aircraft carrier was launched, namely the USS Langley. And that did a lot of good too :/ 

And in 1923 the KKK was exposed, and by 1930 them crackers had dropped from 5 million to about 9000. :Y 

The theme of such happy events continues into 1924 when, if my memory of my history A level is correct, as Hitler's Munich putch goes pear shaped and he goes to prison. And a cuddly socialist chap called Matteotti stood up in the Italian Chamber of Deputies and accused Mussolini of rigging the elections, and being a general bastard. O'course, his story ends a little less happily, as, purely coincidentally, he gets dragged into a car on his way home, and is found the next day with a metal file protruding from his chest.

...and then Il Duce continues his fun and games by telling everyone that they're Fascist, and he's their dictator. And they all go, "Mwuh? Uh. Okay." Oh, and the KKK has a bit of a resurgence in Washington.

 

Still, on the upside, 1925 also saw the signing of the Locarno Pact, /and/ the introduction of London's first double decker busses!

Although the busses no doubt stopped running, when we had a bit of a general strike, in 1926. Just a few days after somebody tried to kill that Mussolini chap. In fact, seems like a bad year for dictators, as someone had a pop at Primo, over in Spain, too. Which I've always considered a bit harsh. I mean, yes, he staged a military coup and overthrew the government, but he wasn't all that nasty, and he was genuinely delusional, and thought he was in tune with the Spanish public. Which'll be why he withdrew Spain from the League of Nations.

Meanwhile, the Americans were executing their own particular brand of crazy, and handing death sentances out to any immigrants who're accused of a crime, a la Sacco and Vanzetti.

 

And 1600 stupid people get hospitalised on December 12, after slipping on Britain's icy streets.

Nothing interesting happened in 1928.

Which would cause lots of boredom and apathy and such, and might explain why The Great Depression started in 1929.

In this year, the first documented case of time travel occurred; a Mr Daniel Herman materialised in Chicago, stealing Luigi "Knuckles" Marionetti's fedora hat, before padlocking the gates to Mr Marionetti's mansion shut and vanishing.

It's been rather cold recently hasn't it. BUt, i think we can safely say that it wasn't as cold as 1932 when Niagra Falls actually froze solid.

January 30th, 1933, and President Hindenburg has a chat with leading politician/businessman Von Papen, and decides Hitler's probably 'not that bad', and gives him the Chancellorship. Less than a month later, and the Reichstag's on fire. Coo. A fitted-up Socialist is found nearby, and the Enabling Act is passed as the result. Hindenburg wonders if, perhaps, he might have been mistaken.

 

On the other side of the Atlantic, though, FDR's being all warm and fuzzy, and broadcasts his first Fireside Chat, shortly before doing his whole New Deal thing. (hug) 

 

The international media's attention is directed to Scotland, however, where the first modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster has just occured.

 

A little more subtly, however, our world changes for the better, as the revered Ruth Wakefield invents the chocolate chip cookie.

Then in 1934, Harold Clayton Urey won a Noble Prize for Chemistry after discovering heavy hydrogen, or Deuterium as it's also known.

The isotope of hydrogen in which the nucleus contains one proton and one neutron, sometimes called heavy hydrogen. The deuterium atom (called the deuteron) is denoted either ²H or D.

Deuterium may be pretty heavy, but it wasn't as heavy as the great flood of July 7, 1935, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in New York.

Which might explain why, in 1936, Culligan started selling water treatment produces.

No wonder Mrs. Not Afraid Bear, a Lower Yanktonian Sioux, believes that 1936 was the driest and hottest summer of all her lifetime.

Italy win the World Cup for the second time. Rumours that a Russian linesman was born in this year go unconfirmed.