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The arrest of Sacco and Vanzetti was the start of a controversial 1920s case in which two Italian-American anarchists were convicted of a payroll robbery and the murders of two men in South Braintree, Massachusetts. -
Charles Lindberg completes solo flight across the Atlantic
Definition- "KDKA goes on the air from Pittsburgh" refers to the first commercial radio station's inaugural broadcast. -
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. -
It centered on Albert B. Fall, the Interior Secretary, who had leased petroleum reserves designated for the Navy at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, as well as two locations in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France, from January 25 to February 5, 1924. The event was initially called the "International Winter Sports Week" but was retroactively designated the first Olympic Winter Games by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1926. -
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald about the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby's obsessive pursuit of his former love, Daisy Buchanan, in the Jazz Age of the 1920s -
The Scopes "Monkey Trial" was a 1925 legal case in Dayton, Tennessee, where high school teacher John Scopes was accused of violating the state's Butler Act, which made it illegal to teach human evolution in public schools. -
The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, marking the beginning of the "talkie" era. While not the first sound film, its commercial success and limited synchronized dialogue sequences of speech and singing transformed the film industry and brought an end to the era of silent films. -
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre was the murder of seven members of a rival gang by assailants posing as police officers. It occurred on February 14, 1929, in a garage in Chicago, and was widely believed to have been ordered by mob boss Al Capone. -
The day the stock market crashed dramatically, marking the beginning of the great depression. The crash was caused by a combination of factors, including over-speculation, excessive consumer debt, and economic imbalances, which led to a massive sell-off of stocks and billions of dollars in lost wealth.