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Sacco and Vanzetti arrested for armed robbery and murder
Sacco and Vanzetti were charged with committing robbery and murder on payroll clerk Frederick Parmenter and security guard Alessandro Berardelli
who were shot to death and robbed of over $15,000 -
KDKA goes on the air from Pittsburgh
KDKA went on the air in Pittsburgh as the world's first commercially licensed station -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Interior Secretary Albert Bacon Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
1st Miss American Pageant
Atlantic City was home to the first Miss America Pageant in 1921. Sixteen-year-old Margaret Gorman from Washington, DC won the first competition -
1st Winter Olympics
The 1924 Winter Olympics were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France -
The Great Gatsby published by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Set in Jazz Age New York, it tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth -
Scopes Monkey Trial
A young high school science teacher was accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. -
Charles Lindberg completes solo flight across the Atlantic
Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in history, flying his Spirit of St. Louis from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France -
The Jazz Singer debuts
It is widely believed to be the first film with sound, marking the end of the silent era. It was the first film with synchronized music and vocal tracks to truly capture the public imagination -
Black Tuesday
A major American stock market crash that led to The Great Depression -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
The murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang on Saint Valentine's Day