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Italian immigrants and anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested in May 1920 for a fatal April 15, 1920, armed robbery at a Braintree, Massachusetts, shoe factory. Their 1921 conviction for the murder of a paymaster and guard spurred international protests, with many believing they were targeted for their radical political beliefs rather than evidence, leading to their 1927 execution. -
KDKA in Pittsburgh, recognized as the world's first commercially licensed radio station, officially went on the air on November 2, 1920. Owned by Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, it made history by broadcasting the Harding-Cox presidential election returns, allowing listeners to hear results faster than newspapers. -
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. It centered on Albert B. Fall, the interior secretary, who had leased petroleum reserves designated for the Navy at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, as well as two locations in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding.[1] The leases were the subject of an investigation by Senator Thomas J. Walsh. Convicted of accepting bribes -
The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France, in 1924, from January 25 to February 5, initially called the "International Winter Sports Week" before being retroactively recognized as the first official Winter Games by the IOC. Sixteen nations competed in sports like skiing, skating, and bobsled, with Norway winning the most medals. -
The Great Gatsby, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in April 1925, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's third novel, exploring themes of wealth, love, and the American Dream in the 1920s. Set on Long Island, it follows narrator Nick Carraway's interaction with the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan. -
The State of Tennessee v. 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, in which a high school teacher, John Thomas Scopes -
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 men were gathered at a Lincoln Park, Chicago, garage when between four and six men entered, two of whom were disguised as police officers -
On May 20–21, 1927, 25-year-old American aviator Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo, non-stop transatlantic flight, flying from New York to Paris in 33.5 hours. Flying the Spirit of St. Louis, a custom monoplane, he covered 3,600 miles to land at Le Bourget Field, winning the $25,000 Orteig Prize. -
The Jazz Singer, released by Warner Bros. on October 6, 1927, at the Warner Theatre in New York, revolutionized cinema as the first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue and musical sequences. Starring Al Jolson, the film used the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, signaling the end of the silent era and the dawn of "talkies -
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