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Sacco and Vanzetti arrested for armed robbery and murder
Sacco and Vanzetti were anarchists that got charged with the murder of a payroll clerk and a security guard. They were also charged with stealing $15,000. They were later arrested and executed. -
KDKA goes on the air from Pittsburgh
Already they were known as broadcast pioneers. So began the first broadcast by a commercially-licensed radio station. KDKA went on the air in Pittsburgh as the world's first commercially licensed station. -
1st Miss American Pageant
What has become known as the first Miss America pageant was, at its start in 1921, an activity designed to attract tourists to extend their Labor Day holiday weekend and enjoy festivities. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was when the president decided to give the rights to some oil reserves to people. Those people would later become rich and then the entire scandal was revealed. It lasted from around 1921 to about 1923. -
1st Winter Olympics Held
The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Chamonix 1924, was a winter multi-sport event that was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
This massacre was when Al Capone made some of his people take out some other higher-ups from different gangs. His men would dress up as cops and lead the people down an alley and then kill them. -
The Great Gatsby published by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby is a book that was written in 1925 by author F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is a book that has a first-person narrator by the name of Nick Carraway and it goes through his interactions with a mysterious millionaire named Jay Gatsby. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
The trial was about a man that was arrested for teaching students about evolution. At first, he was fined quilty and then it was overturned leading to evolution being taught in a lot of places. -
Charles Lindberg completes solo flight across the Atlantic
Charles Lindbergh was the first person that had ever flown all the way across the Atlantic Ocean. During his trip, he had to hold his eyelids open with his hands and as he landed in France he was instantly a celebrity. -
The Jazz Singer debuts (1st movie with sound)
he Jazz Singer, the first commercially successful full-length feature film with sound, debuts at the Blue Mouse Theater in Seattle. The movie uses Warner Brothers' Vitaphone sound-on-disc technology to reproduce the musical score and sporadic episodes of synchronized speech. -
Black Tuesday (Stock Market Crash)
Black Tuesday was the day that the stock market crashed. This would lead to a nationwide depression also known as the Great Depression. It started all because people would take loans and then buy stocks and not be able to pay those loans leading it to all godown.