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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrants and anarchists, were arrested in Massachusetts for the armed robbery and murder of two men during a payroll holdup at a shoe factory. While the case resulted in their conviction and execution, the trial was highly controversial due to weak evidence, widespread nativism and anti-radical sentiment, and perceived bias against the defendants. -
KDKA went on the air from Pittsburgh on becoming the world's first commercially licensed radio station and broadcasting the results of the Harding-Cox presidential election. This broadcast, organized by Westinghouse Electric, demonstrated radio's potential and sparked a boom in the industry. -
The first Miss America pageant was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to attract tourists after Labor Day. The winner was Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old contestant from Washington, D.C., who was awarded the title "The Most Beautiful Bathing Girl in America" and a Golden Mermaid trophy. The event was initially called the Inter-City Beauty Contest and evolved into the Miss America Pageant, with Gorman's win becoming a significant American tradition. -
It centered on Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall, who had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, as well as two locations in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. The leases were the subject of an investigation by Senator Thomas J. Walsh. -
The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France, from, initially as an "International Winter Sports Week" before being officially designated the first Olympic Winter Games in 1926. The event, which included sports like figure skating, ice hockey, skiing, and bobsleigh, proved a major success and led to the formal establishment of the Winter Games by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). January 25 to February 5, 1924 -
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. -
As a high-school teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, Scopes was accused of violating the state's Butler Act, which made it illegal to teach human evolution in any public school or university. -
Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, from New York to Paris on. The flight lasted about 33.5 hours and covered approximately 3,610 miles, making Lindbergh an international hero and boosting the popularity of aviation. May 20–21, 1927 -
The Jazz Singer debuted on and is recognized as the first feature-length film to incorporate synchronized dialogue and singing. Produced by Warner Bros., the film was a groundbreaking success that ushered in the era of sound movies and marked the effective end of the silent film era. Starring Al Jolson, the musical drama was a commercial hit that utilized the Vitaphone sound-on-disc technology. -
Was the murder of seven members of Chicago's North Side Gang by a rival gang, likely Al Capone's South Side Gang, in a garage in Lincoln Park. Posing as police officers, the assailants used machine guns to kill the men lined up against a wall, a brutal event that shocked the public, highlighted the violence of Prohibition-era gang wars, and signaled a shift in power from the North Side to the Italian-led South Side Gang. No one was ever convicted for the murders. -
The Wall Street crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major stock market crash in the United States which began in October 1929 with a sharp decline in prices on the New York Stock Exchange.