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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested on May 5, 1920, for the armed robbery and murder of two men in Braintree, Massachusetts, which occurred on April 15, 1920. The two Italian immigrants and avowed anarchists were subsequently convicted, despite global protests and claims that the trial was biased due to their political beliefs and immigrant status -
KDKA went on the air from Pittsburgh on November 2, 1920, becoming the world's first commercially licensed radio station. Established by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, its inaugural broadcast was the results of the Harding-Cox presidential election, proving the power of radio to a wide audience -
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 8, 1921, as the Inter-City Beauty Contest. It was a marketing event created by local businessmen to attract tourists to the city after Labor Day, and the winner was 16-year-old Margaret Gorman, who was awarded a "Golden Mermaid" statue -
The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France, from January 25 to February 5, 1924. Initially called "International Winter Sports Week," it was officially designated the first Olympic Winter Games by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1926 -
The novel was published on 10 April 1925 by the publisher Charles Scribner's Sons. Fitzgerald had hoped it would sell 75,000 copies, but he saw only a fraction of his expected success in his lifetime. By the time of Fitzgerald's death in 1940, sales had amounted to just 25,000 copies. -
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, -
Charles Lindbergh completed 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 flight took 33.5 hours and made him an international celebrity -
The Jazz Singer debuted on October 6, 1927, and is famous for being the first feature-length "talkie" film, meaning it had synchronized dialogue and singing sequences. While other films had experimented with sound before, The Jazz Singer's commercial success with its use of the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system is what truly marked the end of the silent film era -
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 when between four and six men entered, two of whom were disguised as police officers -
Black Tuesday October 29 1929 the stock market crashed