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1st Winter Olympics Held
The first winter Olympics was held in southern Greece -
Sacco and Vanzetti arrested for armed robbery and murder
The police arrested Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, on a streetcar in Brockton. They were found guilty because of the guns in their possession when they were arrested. -
KDKA goes on the air from Pittsburgh
KDAK began the first broadcast by a commercially-licensed radio station. KDKA went on the air in Pittsburgh as the world's first commercially licensed station on November 2 -
1st Miss American Pageant
The 1st Miss American Pageant was held at Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey. Margaret Gorman won the first-ever Miss American Pageant. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall 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. -
1st Winter Olympics Held
The 1924 Olympics were the first to use the standard 50 m pool with marked lanes. Johnny Weissmuller won three gold medals, He got his medals and they where for swimming also he had a bronze one in water polo -
Scopes Monkey Trial
The monkey trial was the moniker 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. -
Charles Lindberg completes solo flight across the Atlantic
Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in history. Charles flew his Spirit of St. Louis from Long Island, New York, to Paris, and then to France -
The Jazz Singer debuts (1st movie with sound)
the first commercially successful full-length feature film with sound, debuts at the Blue Mouse Theater at 1421 5th Avenue in Seattle. -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
The St. Valentine's day massacre was one of Capone's longtime enemies, the Irish gangster George “Bugs” Moran, who ran his bootlegging operations out of a garage at 2122 North Clark Street -
Black Tuesday (Stock Market Crash)
Black Tuesday was the day when Wall Street investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. -
The Great Gatsby published by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The novel was published as The Great Gatsby on April 10, 1925. Fitzgerald believed the book's final title to be merely acceptable and often expressed his ambivalence with the name.