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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo were arrested on May 5, 1920, for the armed robbery and murder of two guards at a shoe factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Their arrest led to a controversial trial where they were convicted, sparking wide spread protests that argued the verdict was biased due to their anarchist beliefs and Italian origin -
KDKA in Pittsburgh went on the air for its first commercial broadcast on November 2, 1920, transmitting the results of the presidential election. This historic broadcast was made by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company and is considered the first of its kind in the United States -
The first Miss American Pageant was held on September 7-8, 1921, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Margaret Gorman was crowned the winner, though the title “Miss American” wasn’t officially used until later -
The Teapot Dome Scandal was a corruption scandal in 1922 during the Hardling administration, where Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall secretly leased naval oil reserves -
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 April 10, 1925 by the publisher Charles Scribner’s Sons. Fitzgerald had hoped it would sell 75,000 copies, but he saw only a fraction of expected success in his lifetime. By the time of Fitzgerald’s death in 1940. Sales had amounted to just 25,000 copies -
The Scopes Monkey Trial was a 1925 court case in Dayton, Tennessee, where high school teacher John Scopes was charged with violating the state’s Butler Act, which made it illegal to teach evolution -
Charles Lindberg completed the first solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21 1927, flying his single-engine plane, the Spirit of St. Louis. He flew from Roosevelt Field in New York to Le Bourget Aerodrome in Paris which to 33.6 hours over 3,600 miles -
The Jazz Singer debuted on October 6, 1927, with its New York premiere at the Warners Theatre in Times Square -
This massacre was the 1929 murder of seven men, most of whom were members of the rival North Side Gang, in a Chicago garage. The attack was carried out by four men, two of whom were disguised as police officers, who entered the garage under the pretense of a raid and machine-gunned the victims -
On Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed after weeks of decline, marking the end of the Roaring Twenties and ushering in the Great Depression.