Ella Fitzgerald

Events

Birth of Ella Fitzgerald

April 25, 1917

Start of the Harlem Renaissance

1920

Women granted Voting Rights

August 18, 1920

Start of the Great Depression

October 29, 1929

Mother and Step- Father passed away

1932

Won an amateur contest

November 21, 1934

First recording of "Love and Kisses"

June 1936

First recording of "A- Tisket, A- Tisket"

1938

Mentor Chick Webb passed away; Ella took over his band

June 16, 1939

Ronald Reagan's Inauguration

January 20, 1981