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Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested for armed robbery and murder at the Slater and Morrill shoe factory in South Braintree. -
KDKA went on air from Pittsburgh as the world first ever commercially licensed station -
The Miss American Pagent started as Atlantic City's Inter-City Beauty Contest as a way to attract tourists. The first-ever winner was Margret Gormon -
A bribery scandal in the 1920s. It shocked Americans by revealing a crazy level of greed and corruption in the federal government. -
The first Winter Olympics was held on January 25th, 1924 in Stade Olympique de Chamonix in Chamonix, France, -
F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby to show the American Dream and its stability of it. -
A legal case where a high school teacher, John T. Scopes was accused of of violating Tennese's Butler Act. The Butler Act made it illegal for teachers to teach about human evolution. -
Charles Lindberg completed the first-ever solo transatlantic flight. He flew his Spirit of St Lewis from Long Island, New York to Paris, France. -
The first Jazz Singer debuted on December 30, 1927, was the first feature-length movie with synchronized dialogue -
On February 2nd, 1929, Chicago's North Side erupted in gang violence -
Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in one day. Around 14 billion of stock value was lost, wiping out thousands of investors.