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Sacco and Vanzetti Trial Starts
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guad and a paymaster. They escape with over $15,000. They also found the pistol on Sacco that was used to murder the guard, and Vanzetti was innocent. -
The Ratification of the 19th ammendment
The Ratifacation of the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. This was also called the woman suffrage. Women like Susan B. Anthony took part of the Ratification. -
Yankee Stadium Opens
It only took 284 working days, and The Yankee Stadium was complete. It was a interesting game The New York Yankees versus The Boston Red Sox. -
Great Gatsby Publish
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in May 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach. -
Grand Ole Opry Starts On WSM
Grand Ole Opry. The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country-music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, which was founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM. -
Charles Lindbergh Crosses The Atlantic Ocean Solo
On May 20, 1927, 25-year-old pilot Charles Lindbergh strapped into his famous airplane, The Spirit of St. Louis, and took off on the first ever non-stop flight from New York to Paris. The 33.5-hour crossing vaulted Lindbergh to international stardom, but he was later visited by tragedy in 1932, when his 20-month-old son was kidnapped and murdered in what was dubbed “the Crime of the Century. -
The Jazz Singer Premieres
The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical film. As the first feature-length motion picture with not only a synchronized recorded music score, but also lip-synchronous singing and speech in several isolated sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of sound films and the decline of the silent film era. -
Steamboat Willie Premieres
Steamboat Willie is an animated cartoon released on November 18,1928. It was the first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon. Mickey had appeared in two earlier cartoons, Plane Crazy and The Gallopin' Gaucho. -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday lasted for 4 days. It started October 24 and ended October 29, which is also known as Black Thursday. Another fact is that it was the biggest financial crisis in the 20th century.
