Warren Harding

Edith Wharton

Tomb of the Unknowns

• Warren Harding was sworn in as the 29th President. 

• Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for The Age of Innocence.

• James Joyce’s Ulysses was published in Paris.

• Mussolini and 35 of his Fascist colleagues won seats in the Italian Parliament.

• Adolf Hitler became the leader of the Nazi party, which has about 3000 members.

• The first of America’s unknown soldiers were placed in the new Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington Cemetery.

• Esthmus Carson was born in 1864 in Virginia.

• He and his wife Annie B. (born 1864) had at least 2 sons

• Virgil H. (born 1893)
• Carr H. (born 1899)