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Atlantic City hosted the first Miss America Pageant in 1921. Representatives from seven cities and Atlantic City participated. Sixteen-year-old Margaret Gorman from Washington, DC (at far left in a white hat) won the first competition. -
The first broadcast by a commercially licensed radio station. KDKA went on the air in Pittsburgh as the world’s first commercially licensed station. -
It centered on Interior Secretary Albert Bacon Fall, who had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
The Games were organized by the French Olympic Committee, and were originally reckoned as the "International Winter Sports Week". -
By American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover. -
John T. Scopes was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it illegal to teach evolution in public schools. -
Judge Thayer sentenced Sacco and Vanzetti to death by electrocution. Judge Thayer scheduled the executions for the week of July 10, 1927. -
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. -
American part-talkie musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. -
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. -
The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined nearly 13 percent. Federal Reserve leaders differed on how to respond to the event and support the financial system.