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Yes, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested on May 5, 1920, for the armed robbery and murder of two men during a payroll robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1920. Their arrests and subsequent convictions and executions became a highly controversial case that drew international attention due to widespread belief that their radical anarchist beliefs prejudiced the trial -
KDKA went on the air from Pittsburgh on November 2, 1920, becoming the world's first commercially licensed radio station. Established by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, its inaugural broadcast was the results of the Harding-Cox presidential election, proving the power of radio to a wide audience -
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 1921, with Margaret Gorman of Washington, D.C. crowned the first winner. The event was created to attract tourists to Atlantic City after Labor Day and was originally called the "Inter-City Beauty Contest -
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, John -
Yes, Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in May 1927. He flew his single-engine plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, from New York to Paris in 33.5 hours, landing to a massive crowd and becoming an instant international hero -
The Jazz Singer debuted on October 6, 1927, and is famous for being the first feature-length film with synchronized dialogue, music, and sound. While not the first film with any synchronized sound, its release marked the commercial beginning of the sound era, effectively ending the silent film era -
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 -
Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, caused the stock market to collapse, wiping out billions in value and triggering the Great Depression. The crash was fueled by speculative investing and margin buying, and it led to a loss of confidence, bank failures, mass unemployment, and a global economic downturn that lasted for a decade, with the Dow Jones not recovering its 1929 value for over 25 years