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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested in 1920 for the armed robbery and murder of a shoe factory paymaster and guard in South Braintree, Massachusetts. The two Italian immigrants and avowed anarchists were convicted in 1921, and after a lengthy appeals process, they were executed in 1927. The case drew global attention and continues to be debated today, with many arguing that anti-immigrant prejudice and political bias influenced the outcome of the tria -
it the world's first commercially licensed radio station. It began broadcasting to provide election results for the Harding-Cox presidential race, which demonstrated the power of commercial radio to the public -
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 -
The Teapot Dome scandal was a political corruption scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding -
The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France, from January 25 to February 5, 1924. The event, initially called "International Winter Sports Week," featured 16 events across nine sports, including bobsled, ice hockey, figure skating, and ski jumping -
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, John -
The novel was published on 10 April 1925 by the publisher Charles Scribner's Sons. Fitzgerald had hoped it would sell 75,000 copies, but he saw only a fraction of his expected success in his lifetime. By the time of Fitzgerald's death in 1940, sales had amounted to just 25,000 copies. -
The Jazz Singer debuted on October 6, 1927, in New York City and is recognized as the first feature-length "talkie" due to its synchronized music, sound effects, and several sequences with synchronized dialogue. While not the first film with synchronized sound, its commercial success and introduction of spoken lines effectively ended the silent film era -
Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic in May 1927, flying his monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, from New York to Paris. The historic journey took just over 33 hours and made him an instant global celebrity -
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. -
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 men were gathered at a Lincoln Park, Chicago, garage when between four and six men entered, two of whom were disguised as police officers.