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Sacco and Vanzetti were charged with committing robbery and murder at the Slater and Morrill shoe factory in South Braintree -
KDKA went on the air in Pittsburgh as the world's first commercially licensed station on November 2, 1920. -
The Teapot Dome scandal was a political corruption scandal in the United States involving President Harding. -
Atlantic City was home to the first Miss America Pageant in 1921 which included representatives from 7 cities and Atlantic City. -
The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were held in Chamonix, France. -
The Great Gatsby, novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons. -
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. -
Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case. in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act. -
The Jazz Singer, an American musical film, released in 1927. -
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang on Saint Valentine's Day 1929. -
The stock market crashed due to buying stock on margin and America lost about 14 billion dollars.