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The two men were sentenced to death on April 9, 1927, after being arrested for the murder of Frederick Parmenter, and security guard Alessandro Berardelli they shot to death and robbed of over $15,000 in cash. -
Frank Conrad was the engineer who put KDKA on air, they went on the air in Pittsburgh as the world's first commercially licensed station. -
Atlantic City was home to the first Miss America Pageant in 1921 which included representatives from 7 cities and Atlantic City. Sixteen-year-old Margaret Gorman from Washington, DC won the first competition. -
John Kendrick introduced a resolution that set in motion one of the most significant investigations in Senate history. This was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding -
American Charles Jewtraw became the first Winter Games champion by winning the 500m speed skating event held in Chamonix France. -
This book tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman he loved in his youth. -
journalist H. L. Mencken applied to the 1925 prosecution of a criminal action brought by the state of Tennessee against high school teacher John T. Scopes for violating the state's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools. -
After traveling more than 3,600 miles in 33.5 hours, Lindbergh landed safely in Paris,100,000 people swarmed around the plane, hoisting the pilot on their shoulders and cheering his achievement. The papers called him the "Lone Eagle" -
This was the first film with synchronized music and vocal track to truly capture the public imagination, ushering in the sound revolution. -
The murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang on Saint Valentine's Day. The victims included members Adam Heyer, Frank Gusenberg, Pete Gusenberg, John May, Al Weinshank, and James Clark, as well as a visitor, Dr. Reinhardt H. Schwimmer. The St. -
The U.S. stock market crashed in an event known as Black Tuesday. This began a chain of events that led to the Great Depression, there were many causes of the 1929 stock market crash, some of which included overinflated shares, growing bank loans, agricultural overproduction, panic selling, etc.