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Sacco and Vanzetti
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were accused of double murder. were shot to death during a robbery in Braintree, Massachusetts. About three weeks later, Sacco and Vanzetti were charged with the crime. Their trial aroused intense controversy because it was widely believed that the evidence against the men was flimsy, and that they were being prosecuted for their immigrant background and their radical political beliefs. -
KDKA
KDKA is a radio station licensed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it was the first one to disseminate the results of the elections , as well as the first commercial: "This is KDKA, of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We shall now broadcast the election returns." . -
Miss America pageant
Margaret Gorman was chosen as the first "Miss Washington, D. C." She was judged in stylish afternoon attire by the judges, but and the public alike, who shared in 50 percent of the final score. -
Dome Scandal
The administration of President Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. Fall was later convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies and became the first Cabinet member to go to prison. -
First Winter Olympics
The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. There was a call for equality for winter sports, and after much discussion it was decided to organize an "international week of winter sport" in 1924 in Chamonix. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
The verdict came in from a jury in Dayton, Tenn., that John Thomas Scopes had committed the crime of teaching evolution to students at his high school. The trial, as it played out in the popular press, electrified the nation. -
The Great Gatsby
Jay Gatsby follows the 'American Dream' and reflects the glamour of the 'Roaring Twenties'. Tom Buchanan represents a racist element in society and is unsympathetic to civil rights. The characters inhabit a consumerist society dominated by fashion and new technology such as the photograph. -
Charles Lindbergh
Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974), an American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21. He was a major opponent of U.S. involvement in WWII. -
The Jazz Singer
The first commercially successful full-length feature film with sound. Although the song and dialogue portions of The Jazz Singer were limited to a handful of scenes, they meshed nicely with the rest of the film. Sound-on-film would eventually become the industry standard. -
St. Valentines Day massacre
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the murder of six gang members. Though the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre marked the end of any significant gang opposition to Capone’s rule in Chicago, it can also be said to have marked the beginning of his downfall. -
Black Tuesday
The Great Depression in the United States, a day known forever after as “Black Tuesday,” when the American stock market, which had been roaring steadily upward for almost a decade, crashed. After Roosevelt's New Deal was made up, it permanently changed the federal government’s relationship to the U.S. populace.
