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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested on May 5, 1920, for the armed robbery and murder of two shoe company employees in South Braintree, Massachusetts, which had occurred on April 15, 1920. The two Italian immigrants and avowed anarchists were convicted in 1921, sparking a controversial case that gained international attention and remains debated today due to accusations of prejudice and unfairness. -
KDKA first went on the air in Pittsburgh on November 2, 1920, making it the first commercial radio station in the world. Established by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, its first broadcast was the Harding-Cox presidential election results, which demonstrated the power of radio by providing news before it appeared in newspapers -
The Teapot Dome scandal was a political corruption scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
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 -
The novel was published on 10 April 1925 by the publisher Charles Scribner's Sons. Fitzgerald had hoped it would sell 75,000 copies, but he saw only a fraction of his expected success in his lifetime. By the time of Fitzgerald's death in 1940, sales had amounted to just 25,000 copies. -
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 -
Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20–21, 1927, flying his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, from New York to Paris in 33.5 hours. This historic flight made him an international hero and significantly impacted the development of air travel -
The Jazz Singer debuted on October 6, 1927, at the Warner Theatre in New York City, marking the first commercially successful feature film with synchronized dialogue and music. While not the first film with any sound, its integration of synchronized speech and songs, using Warner Bros.' -
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. -
Black Tuesday refers to the catastrophic stock market crash that occurred on October 29, 1929, marking a crucial moment in the onset of the Great Depression. The event saw investors engage in a mass panic sell-off, leading to record-breaking trade volumes and billions of dollars in losses.