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KDKA 1949
1920
In 1920, Westinghouse, one of the leading radio manufacturers, had an idea for selling more radios: It would offer programming. -
Teapot Dome Scandal 1920
1920
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
Miss American Pageant 1921
1921
In the summer of 1921, while getting ready to enter the Junior Class of Western High School, Margaret Gorman's picture was one of approximately one thousand photos entered into a popularity contest held by the Washington Herald. -
Sacco and Vanzetti 1921
1921
For more than six years the Sacco-Vanzetti case has been before the courts of Massachusetts. In a state where ordinary murder trials are promptly dispatched such extraordinary delay in itself challenges attention. -
1924 Winter Olympics
1924
The winter olympics was offically known as the I Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. -
The Great Gatsby 1925
1925
The Great Gatsby received mixed reviews and sold poorly; in its first year, the book sold only 20,000 copies. Fitzgerald died in 1940, believing himself to be a failure and his work forgotten. -
Scopes Monkey Trials 1925
1925
states across the South had passed laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the classroom. Oklahoma, Florida and Mississippi had such laws, and narrow margins determined those in North Carolina and Kentucky. In Tennessee the Butler Law passed in early 1925, for although the governor was not a fundamentalist, many of his constituents were. -
Charles Lindberg 1927
1927
An American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean -
The Jazz Singer 1927
1927
On December 30, 1927, The Jazz Singer, the first commercially successful full-length feature film with sound, debuts at the Blue Mouse Theater at 1421 5th Avenue in Seattle. -
St. Valentines Day 1929
1929
One February evening in North Chicago, seven well-dressed men were found riddled with bullets inside the S.M.C Cartage Co. garage. -
Black Tuesday 1929
1929
The Stock Market Crash of 1929, began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout.
