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Yes, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested on May 5, 1920, for the armed robbery and murder of two men at a shoe factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts, which occurred on April 15, 1920. -
KDKA first went on the air from Pittsburgh on November 2, 1920, making its first commercial broadcast to report on the Harding-Cox presidential election.
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The Teapot Dome scandal was a political corruption scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding.
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The first Miss America Pageant was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on September 8, 1921, as the Inter-City Beauty Contest.
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The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France, from January 25 to February 5, 1924. Initially called "International Winter Sports Week," it was officially designated the first Olympic Winter Games by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1926
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On March 19, 1925, Fitzgerald expressed enthusiasm for the title Under the Red, White, and Blue, but it was too late to change it at that stage. The novel was published as The Great Gatsby on April 10, 1925.
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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.
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Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20–21, 1927, in his monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis.
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The Jazz Singer debuted on October 6, 1927, in New York City, and is considered the first feature-length "talkie" because it included synchronized dialogue and singing sequences.
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The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang on Saint Valentine's Day 1929.
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It is most associated with October 24, 1929, known as "Black Thursday", when a record 12.9 million shares were traded on the exchange, and October 29, 1929