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Sacco and Vanzetti arrested for armed robbery and murder
Charged with the crime of murder on May 5, Sacco and Vanzetti were indicted on September 14, 1920, and put on trial May 21, 1921, at Dedham, Norfolk County -
KDKA goes on the air from Pittsburgh
KDKA went on the air in Pittsburgh as the world's first commercially licensed station -
Teapot Dome Scandal
a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923. -
1st Miss American Pageant
eight finalists from cities in the Northeast competed for the title, which would later be known as Miss America. -
1st Winter Olympics Held
officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Chamonix 1924, were a winter multi-sport event which was held in Chamonix, France -
The Great Gatsby published by 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 mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan -
Scopes Monkey Trial
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, in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it illegal for teachers to teach human evolution in any state-funded school -
Charles Lindberg completes solo flight across the Atlantic
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 debuts (1st movie with sound)
The Jazz Singer, the first commercially successful full-length feature film with sound, debuts at the Blue Mouse Theater at 1421 5th Avenue in Seattle. -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
the murder of seven Irish members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang that occurred on Saint Valentine's Day 1929. -
Black Tuesday (Stock Market Crash)
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929. It started in September and ended late in October, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.