Modern Era · North America · Politics

1923

Harding dies, Coolidge sworn in by oil lamp

August 2, 1923

President Warren Harding died suddenly in a San Francisco hotel while on a speaking tour; rumors of poisoning by his wife still circulate. Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as president by his father, a Vermont notary, by the light of a kerosene lamp in a farmhouse. It was the last inauguration of a president in a private home.

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Before and after in North America

Before: 1921: Tulsa race massacre
After: 1924: Gershwin premieres Rhapsody in Blue

Before and after in Politics

Before: December 30, 1922: Soviet Union declared
After: January 21, 1924: Lenin dies, Stalin maneuvers

Era

Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Calvin Coolidge