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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested in May 1920 for the armed robbery and murder of two men in South Braintree, Massachusetts, which occurred on April 15, 1920. The case became one of the most controversial in American history, with Sacco and Vanzetti convicted primarily based on questionable ballistics and circumstantial evidence, leading to international protests and their eventual execution in 1927 -
KDKA went on the air in Pittsburgh on November 2, 1920, marking the first commercial broadcast in the United States. The station, owned by Westinghouse, used this broadcast to air the results of the presidential election, demonstrating the power of radio to the public -
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 -
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. -
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, flying his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, from New York to Paris in 33.5 hours. He departed on May 20, 1927, and landed at Le Bourget Aerodrome in Paris on May 21, 1927 -
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. -
It is most associated with October 24, 1929, known as "Black Thursday", when a record 12.9 million shares were traded on the exchange, and October 29, 1929