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Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested for the April 15, 1920, Braintree, Massachusetts, payroll robbery and murder on May 5, 1920. They were picked up on a streetcar in Brockton, Massachusetts, a few weeks after the crime, and were subsequently charged with the murders of the two men killed during the robbery. -
KDKA in Pittsburgh went on the air on November 2, 1920, making its first commercial broadcast to announce the results of the Warren G. Harding vs. James Cox presidential election. It is recognized as the world's first commercially licensed radio station. -
Miss America 1921 known as the first Miss America pageant, at its start in 1921, an activity designed to attract tourists to extend their Labor Day holiday weekend and enjoy festivities in Atlantic City, New Jersey. -
The Teapot Dome scandal was a political corruption scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding -
The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Chamonix 1924, were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. -
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. -
In January 1927, the Tennessee Supreme Court overturned the Scopes decision on a technicality, but it insisted the state law was constitutional that barred teaching evolution in public school classrooms. -
Charles Lindbergh completed his solo flight across the Atlantic on May 20-21, 1927, flying from Roosevelt Field in New York to Le Bourget Aerodrome in Paris, France. The historic journey in his custom-built aircraft, the Spirit of St. Louis, took approximately 33.5 hours -
The Jazz Singer debuted on October 6, 1927, in New York City, marking the first feature-length film to incorporate synchronized sound and ushering in the era of the "talkies" and the decline of the silent film era. Produced by Warner Bros. with Vitaphone sound-on-disc technology, the film starred Al Jolson and featured synchronized dialogue sequences -
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 Wall Street crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major stock market crash in the United States which began in October 1929 with a sharp decline in prices on the New York Stock Exchange.