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The first Miss America Pageant was held in September 1921 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, as a way to keep tourists in the city after Labor Day, and was won by 16-year-old Margaret Gorman of Washington, D.C.
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it the world's first commercially licensed radio station. The station aired the returns of the Harding-Cox presidential election as its inaugural broadcast, proving the power of radio to a waiting public
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The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France, in 1924, though initially called "International Winter Sports Week".
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narrated by Nick Carraway, who moves to the wealthy Long Island in 1922 and becomes entangled with his mysterious millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby.
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Charles Lindbergh completed the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in the Spirit of St. Louis