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It took place at the Slater and Morrill shoe factory in South Braintree. Frederick Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli were shot and robbed of over $15,000 in cash. -
KDKA made the nation's first commercial broadcast. -
16-year-old Margaret Gorman won the first competition. -
It was an American political scandal that involved the secret leasing of federal oil reserves. -
The 1924 Winter Olympics was in Chamonix, France. -
The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald's third novel. It's set in jazz-age New York. -
John T. Scopes was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act. -
It was an American film that was the first feature-length movie with synchronized dialogue. -
Charles A. Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France. -
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang. -
Black Tuesday was a major stock market crash in the United States.