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Sacco and Vanzetti were charged with committing robbery and murder on payroll clerk Frederick Parmenter and security guard Alessandro Berardelli
who were shot to death and robbed of over $15,000 -
KDKA went on the air in Pittsburgh as the world's first commercially licensed station -
Interior Secretary Albert Bacon Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
Atlantic City was home to the first Miss America Pageant in 1921. Sixteen-year-old Margaret Gorman from Washington, DC won the first competition -
The 1924 Winter Olympics were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France -
Set in Jazz Age New York, it tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth -
A young high school science teacher was accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. -
Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in history, flying his Spirit of St. Louis from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France -
It is widely believed to be the first film with sound, marking the end of the silent era. It was the first film with synchronized music and vocal tracks to truly capture the public imagination -
A major American stock market crash that led to The Great Depression -
The murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang on Saint Valentine's Day