-
Yes, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested in May 1920 for the armed robbery and murder of two men at the Slater and Morrill shoe factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts, though the evidence against them was largely circumstantial and the trial was marked by prejudice against their Italian and anarchist backgrounds, resulting in their conviction and subsequent execution -
KDKA, the world's first commercial radio station, went on the air from Pittsburgh on November 2, 1920, -
The Teapot Dome scandal was a political corruption scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding -
The first Miss America pageant was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on September 7–8, 1921. -
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. -
John Thomas Scopes, commonly known as the Scopes trial or Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21 -
Yes, Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20–21, 1927 -
The Jazz Singer premiered on October 6, 1927, and is recognized as the first feature-length film to incorporate synchronized dialogue and music, effectively marking the beginning of the "talkie" era and the end of the silent film era. -
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang on Saint Valentine's Day 1929. -
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.