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This was just the sort of thing Westinghouse had in mind, and it asked Conrad to help set up a regular transmitting station in Pittsburgh. -
Sacco and Vanzetti were charged with the crime of murder on May 5, 1920, and indicted four months later on September 14 -
The first pageant was held September 7-8, 1921, and eight finalists from cities in the Northeast competed for the title, which would later be known as Miss America. -
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1922 -
The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Chamonix 1924, was a winter multi-sport event that was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. -
The Great Gatsby, third novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons. -
The Scopes trial, formally The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925 -
On May 21, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in history, flying his Spirit of St. -
On Oct. 6, 1927, The Jazz Singer had its premiere in New York City. Today, the Warner Brothers movie is often referred to as the first “talkie,” or motion picture with sound. -
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang that occurred on Saint Valentine's Day 1929
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On October 29, 1929, the United States stock market crashed in an event known as Black Tuesday. This began a chain of events that led to the Great Depression, a 10-year economic slump that affected all industrialized countries in the world