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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested in May 1920 for the armed robbery and murders of a paymaster and a guard during a 1920 robbery at a shoe factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts, and subsequently tried and convicted. The case attracted international attention, with many believing their radical political views and immigrant status prejudiced the judge and jury against them, leading to protests and calls for their pardon -
KDKA, the first commercially licensed radio station, went on the air in Pittsburgh on November 2, 1920. It broadcast the returns of the Harding-Cox presidential election, demonstrating the new technology's potential for disseminating information and starting a national radio -
The Teapot Dome scandal was a political corruption scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
The first Miss America pageant was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on September 7, 1921, as part of the Fall Frolic to extend tourism beyond Labor Day weekend. Sixteen-year-old Margaret Gorman of Washington, D.C., won the "Inter-City Beauty" contest, earning her the unofficial title of "Miss America" and launching the annual tradition -
The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France, from January 25 to February 5, 1924. Initially known as the "International Winter Sports Week," the event was a great success and was later officially designated as the first Olympic Winter Games in 1926 -
On March 19, 1925, 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 on April 10, 1925 -
The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, commonly known as the Scopes trial or Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925, in which a high school teacher -
Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20–21, 1927, flying from New York to Paris in his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis. The flight, which lasted approximately 33.5 hours and covered about 3,610 miles, made Lindbergh a global hero and demonstrated the potential of long-distance air traveL -
The Jazz Singer, the first commercially successful "talkie," premiered on October 6, 1927, in New York City, starring Al Jolson and featuring synchronized dialogue and musical numbers, not just synchronized music and sound effects. The film marked a pivotal moment in cinema, transitioning the industry from the silent era to sound and using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc technology. -
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre was the 1929 murder of seven men from the North Side Gang, allegedly by Al Capone's South Side Gang in Chicago during the Prohibition era. The victims were lined up against a wall and shot with submachine guns by assailants disguised as police officers in a garage. The event was a pivotal moment in organized crime, solidifying Capone's power and symbolizing the era's violent gang wars, though Al Capone was never convicted -
The Wall Street crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major stock market crash in the United States which began in October 1929 with a sharp decline in prices on the New York Stock Exchange.