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Yes, Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested in Massachusetts in May 1920 for the armed robbery and murder of two men at a Slater and Morrill shoe factory.
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KDKA went on the air from Pittsburgh on November 2, 1920, becoming the world's first commercially licensed radio station. The station aired the returns of the Harding-Cox presidential election on its inaugural broadcast, a landmark event that proved the power of broadcast radio and launched the industry's growth
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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
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The Teapot Dome scandal was a political corruption scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding.
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On March 19, 1925, Fitzgerald expressed enthusiasm for the title Under the Red, White, and Blue, but it was too late to change it at that stage. The novel was published as The Great Gatsby on April 10, 1925.
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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,
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The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France, from January 25 to February 5, 1924, as an International Winter Sports Week before being retroactively designated as the first Olympic Winter Games by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1926. The event featured 258 athletes from 16 nations competing in 16 events across nine disciplines, including figure skating, ice hockey, and ski jumping.
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Charles Lindberg completes solo flight across the Atlantic
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The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson and directed by Alan Crosland, premiered on October 6, 1927
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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.
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre was the gangland murder of seven men associated with the North Side Gang in Chicago on February 14, 1929.