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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested in May 1920 for the armed robbery and murders of two guards at the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in South Braintree, Massachusetts, though the case remains controversial due to weak evidence and allegations of prejudice against the Italian anarchist immigrants -
KDKA went on the air from Pittsburgh on November 2, 1920, making history as the world's first commercially licensed radio station. The station's inaugural broadcast was the results of the Harding-Cox presidential election, a demonstration of radio's power that ushered in a new era of mass communication and broadcasting -
The Teapot Dome scandal was a political corruption scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding. It centered on Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall, who had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, as well as two locations in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
Miss America 1921 known as the first Miss America pageant, at its start in 1921, an activity designed to attract tourists to extend their Labor Day holiday weekend and enjoy festivities in Atlantic City, New Jersey. -
The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France, from January 25 to February 5, 1924. Initially called the "International Winter Sports Week," the event featured events like ski jumping, bobsled, ice hockey, and figure skating, with athletes from 16 nations competing. The great success of the games led the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to officially designate Chamonix as the first Winter Olympics. -
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 tragedy novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire obsessed with reuniting with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan -
The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, commonly known as the Scopes trial or Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925, in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating the Butler Act, a Tennessee state law which outlawed the teaching of human evolution in public schools.[1] The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held. -
Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20–21, 1927, flying from New York to Paris in his custom-built plane, the Spirit of St. Louis. The historic journey took about 33.5 hours and covered over 3,600 miles, making Lindbergh an instant international hero and fueling public interest in aviation. -
The Jazz Singer premiered on October 6, 1927, and is recognized as the first feature-length "talkie"—a film with synchronized sound sequences of dialogue, singing, and music. While not entirely a "talking" film, its success marked the commercial ascendance of sound movies, effectively ending the silent film era and establishing Hollywood's powerful cultural influence -
The Wall Street crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major stock market crash in the United States which began in October 1929 with a sharp decline in prices on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). It triggered a rapid erosion of confidence in the U.S. banking system and marked the beginning of the worldwide Great Depression that lasted until 1939, making it the most devastating crash in the country's history -
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre was the 1929 murder of seven members of the North Side Gang in a Chicago garage, orchestrated by rivals of Al Capone during the Prohibition era. The perpetrators, disguised as police officers, used machine guns to kill the men, with the North Side Gang leader, Bugs Moran, narrowly escaping.