TIMELINE: 90 YEARS OF HISTORY 1920s

El Paso County population: 102,000   1923-Students paint "M" on Franklin Mountain

Significant events in UTEP history * Significant events in El Paso history ** Significant events in national or world history   1920 Name changed to College of Mines and Metallurgy, El Paso Oldest tradition, the St. Patrick's initiation, first reported in The Prospector * El Paso Junior College opens in El Paso High School * Scenic Drive opens * El Paso County population: 102,000 ** 19th Amendment gives women the right to vote ** Pancho Villa surrenders; Mexican Revolution ends   1921 * Ku Klux Klan organizes in El Paso ** Albert Einstein wins Nobel Prize in physics   1922 First Flowsheet yearbook published   1923 Students paint "M" for Miners on Franklin Mountains * Loretto Academy opens ** Pancho Villa assassinated ** Teapot Dome oil reserve scandal   1924 * Turned away from El Paso voting booth, black physician Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon eventually takes his case to the Supreme Court   1925 Fort Bliss Air Terminal named for James Biggs, College of Mines student who died in a plane crash in France during WWI * Rio Grande floods much of El Paso ** Scopes Monkey Trial; John T. Scopes convicted for teaching theory of evolution   1926 ** Robert H. Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket   1927 El Paso Junior College merges with the College of Mines Enrollment over 400 after merger * Charles Lindberg's Spirit of St. Louis lands in El Paso   1928 * El Paso Municipal Airport dedicated * Amelia Earhart flies into El Paso   1929 First Homecoming; Miners beat New Mexico State 8-0 * Short-lived Escobar Rebellion in Mexico triggers fighting in Ciudad Juárez ** Stock market crashes; Great Depression begins