In April 1920, Herbert McBride broke the world's motorcycle record for amateurs with a speed of 104.4 miles per hour. McBride, along with his teammate, Indian Motorcycles Factory Racing Team professional rider Eugene Walker, broke two dozen speed records over the course of several days along the sands of Ormond Beach, Florida. #

Kentucky Governor Edwin P. Morrow signs the bill ratifying the Nineteenth Amendment (the "Susan B. Anthony Amendment"), giving women the right to vote, surrounded by members of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association, on January 6, 1920. #

The Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin gives a speech to Red Army soldiers leaving for the front during the Polish-Soviet War, in Sverdlov Square (now Theatre Square), in Moscow, on May 5, 1920. On the right side of the platform are People's Commissar Leon Trotsky and a Politburo member, Lev Kamenev. #

Franklin D. Roosevelt, then a vice-presidential candidate, at his summer home in Campobello with his 14-year-old daughter Anna, in August 1920, on Campobello Island in New Brunswick, Canada. #

Original caption: "The War Department has assigned the 63rd Infantry as a permanent National Guard of Washington, D.C. It will be the duty of the unit to guard the National Capitol in peace times as well as war." #

A crowd of Sinn Fein sympathizers confronts British troops in front of a barricade that barred the road to Mountjoy prison, in Dublin, Ireland, on April 30, 1920. Earlier in April, Irish Republican Army prisoners in Mountjoy prison had begun a hunger strike, demanding prisoner-of-war status, during the Irish War of Independence (1919–21). #

Original caption, from May 29, 1920: "Bare legs and scanty one piece bathing suits were very much in evidence at the opening of Washington's municipal bathing beach today. Officials have agreed to disregard as precedents the prohibitory orders issued at Coney Island and Atlantic City." #

Original caption: "Wall Street bomb explosion, September 16th, 1920, thirty dead." Another eight of the several hundred who were wounded later died in the hospital. Those responsible for the bombing attack in New York's financial district were never identified, though several anarchist and communist groups were suspected and investigated for years. #

Original caption: "Charles (Charley) Paddock, second from right, of the U.S.A. wins the 100 meters final with his famous 'flying finish' at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. Morris Kirksey, far right, of the U.S.A. was second, and Jackson Scholz of U.S.A., left, was fourth." #

Swimmers from Team U.S.A. photographed at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp on July 25, 1920. At left is Ethelda Bleibtrey from New York, who won three gold medals at the competition, and at right is Hawaii's Duke Kahanamoku, who took home two gold medals. #

The suffragist Alice Paul unfurls a banner from the balcony of the National Women's Party headquarters, showing a star for each state that has ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote. The women were celebrating the August 18, 1920, ratification of the amendment by Tennessee, making the amendment law. #

Original caption from August 17, 1920: "After finding the bricklaying business too full of ups and downs, this amazing young girl decided to take a shot at iron girdering for a change. She is Miss 'Collie' Collier, a reporter for the Chicago Herald-Examiner." #

An aerial view of the battleship USS Oklahoma, originally built in 1910. The Oklahoma was operated by the U.S. Navy until she was sunk in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in December 1941. #

The Republican presidential candidate Warren G. Harding gives a speech from his front porch on August 16, 1920. Harding went on to win the 1920 election, and became America's 29th president. #