1920's

By chrisphillips1243
  • Sacco and Vanzetti arrested for armed robbery and murder

    Sacco and Vanzetti arrested for armed robbery and murder

    payroll clerk Frederick Parmenter and security guard Alessandro Berardelli were shot to death and robbed of over $15,000 in cash.
  • KDKA goes on the air from Pittsburgh

    KDKA goes on the air from Pittsburgh

    first commercial radio station was KDKA in Pittsburgh
  • 1st Miss American Pageant

    1st Miss American Pageant

    margaret gorman
  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    Teapot Dome Scandal

    bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923
  • 1st Winter Olympics Held

    1st Winter Olympics Held

    the first Winter Olympics take off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps.
  • Scopes Monkey Trial

    Scopes Monkey Trial

    was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school
  • The Great Gatsby published by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    The Great Gatsby published by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Charles Lindberg completes solo flight across the Atlantic

    Charles Lindberg completes solo flight across the Atlantic

    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.

  • The Jazz Singer debuts (1st movie with sound)

    the first commercially successful full-length feature film with sound
  • St. Valentine's Day Massacre

    St. Valentine's Day Massacre

    murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang that occurred on Saint Valentine's Day
  • black tuesday

    black tuesday

    was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929.