1920s

  • Sacco and Vanzetti arrested for armed robbery and murder

    Sacco and Vanzetti arrested for armed robbery and murder

    Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested for armed robbery and murder on May 5, 1920 for robbing the shoe factory
  • KDKA goes on the air from Pittsburgh

    KDKA goes on the air from Pittsburgh

    KDKA first went on the air in Pittsburgh on November 2 1920, making it the world's first commercially licensed radio station
  • 1st Miss American Pageant

    1st Miss American Pageant

    The Miss America pageant started in 1921 in Atlantic City, New Jersey as a way to attract tourists after Labor Day
  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    Teapot Dome Scandal

    It was on Albert B. Fall, the Interior Secretary, who had leased petroleum reserves designated for the Navy 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

    1st Winter Olympics Held

    The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix France in 1924 as a celebration of winter sports that was initially called International Winter Sports Week
  • The Great Gatsby published by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    The Great Gatsby published by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    It was published on 10 April 1925 by the publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, Fitzgerald had hoped it would sell 75,000 copies but he sold about only 25000
  • Scopes Monkey Trial

    Scopes Monkey Trial

    prohibited the teaching of human evolution in public schools
  • Charles Lindberg completes solo flight across the Atlantic

    Charles Lindberg completes solo flight across the Atlantic

    Charles Lindbergh did the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in May 1927, flying from New York to Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis
  • The Jazz Singer debuts (1st movie with sound)

    The Jazz Singer debuts (1st movie with sound)

    It was the first film with good sound and clear speech
  • St. Valentine's Day Massacre

    St. Valentine's Day Massacre

    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
  • Black Tuesday (Stock Market Crash)

    Black Tuesday (Stock Market Crash)

    stock market crash that occurred on October 29, 1929, marking the definitive start of the Great Depression