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Charged with the crime of murder on May 5, Sacco and Vanzetti were indicted on September 14, 1920, and put on trial on May 21, 1921, at Dedham, Norfolk County.
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KDKA went on the air in Pittsburgh as the world's first commercially licensed station
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An activity designed to attract tourists to extend their Labor Day holiday weekend and enjoy festivities in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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Wyoming Democratic senator John Kendrick introduced a resolution that set in motion one of the most significant investigations in Senate history.
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The International Olympic Committee gave its patronage to a Winter Sports Week to take place in 1924 in Chamonix, France
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The Great Gatsby, the third novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was published in 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Scopes Trial, also called Scopes Monkey Trial, highly publicized trial of a Dayton, Tennessee, high-school teacher, John T. Scopes, charged with violating state law by teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
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The Jazz Singer, American musical film, released in 1927, that was the first feature-length movie with synchronized dialogue. It marked the ascendancy of “talkies” and the end of the silent-film era.
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Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in history, flying his Spirit of St.
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St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the mass murder of a group of unarmed bootlegging gang members in Chicago on February 14, 1929. The bloody incident dramatized the intense rivalry for control of illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition era in the United States.
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"Black Tuesday" hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Around $14 billion of stock value was lost, wiping out thousands of investors. The panic selling reached its peak with some stocks having no buyers at any price.