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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed for murder this was known as a miscarriage of justice in American legal history. -
The first nations commercial broadcast was made by KDKA and was dated on 11/2/1920 because of election day as well as the power of radio being proven when people could hear the results of the Harding-Cox presidential race before they could read about it in the newspaper. -
There were eight finalists from cities in the Northeast that had competed for the title, which would be known as Miss America. -
A bribery scandal involving President Warren G. Fall was convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies and was the first presidential cabinet to go to prison. -
the International Olympic Committee gave its patronage to a Winter Sports Week to take place in 1924 in Chamonix, France. This event was a great success, attracting 10,004 paying spectators, and was retrospectively named the First Olympic Winter Games. -
The Great Gatsby is known as one of the best literary documents of this period, the American economy soared, which brought unprecedented levels of prosperity to the nation. -
The Scopes Monkey Trial also known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes was an American legal case where a high school teacher made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school by violating the Tennessee's Butler Act. -
The first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight was completed by Charles A. Lindbergh. He flew his spirit through St. Louis from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France. -
This was the first commercially successful full-length feature film with sound. The movie uses Warner Brothers' Vitaphone sound-on-disc technology to reproduce the musical score and sporadic episodes of synchronized speech. -
The murder of seven members and associates in Chicago that occurred on Saint Valentine's Day. -
The Black Tuesday (Stock Market Crash) was
a major American stock market where stock prices collapsed and shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange in one day.