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Sacco and Vanzetti were charged with committing robbery and murder at the Slater and Morrill shoe factory in South Braintree. On the afternoon of April 15, 1920, payroll clerk Frederick Parmenter and security guard Alessandro Berardelli were shot to death and robbed of over $15,000 in cash -
KDKA went on the air in Pittsburgh as the world's first commercially licensed station -
Miss America 1921 known as the first Miss America pageant an activity designed to attract tourists to extend their Labor Day holiday weekend and enjoy festivities in Atlantic City New Jersey -
In April 1922, a Wyoming oil operator wrote to his senator John B. Kendrick angered that Sinclair had been given a contract to the lands in a secret deal. Kendrick did not write back to the man but two days later on April 15 he introduced a resolution calling for an investigation of the deal -
The 1924 Winter Olympics officially known as the first Olympic Games and commonly known as Chamonix 1924, were a winter multi-sport event that was held in 1924 in France -
John Scopes, a young popular high school science teacher, agreed to stand as defendant in a test case to challenge the law. He was arrested on May 7, 1925, and charged with teaching the theory of evolution. -
Fitzgerald expressed enthusiasm for the title Under the Red White and Blue but it was too late to change it at that stage The novel was published as The Great Gatsby -
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 men were gathered at a Lincoln Park, Chicago, garage on the morning of February 14, 1929. They were lined up against a wall and shot by four unknown assailants, too of whom were disguised as police officers -
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 -
The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American part talkie musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros It is the first feature length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music and lip-synchronous singing and speech -
Many investors both institutional and individual had borrowed or leveraged heavily to buy stocks, and the crash that began on Black Thursday wiped them out financially leading to widespread bank failures