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Sacco and Vanzetti arrested for armed robbery and murder
Four Italian men came for the car on the evening of May 5, 1920, the garage owner's wife called police and warned the four men not to drive the car as it lacked current license plates. Police arrested two of the men, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, on a streetcar in Brockton.
The anti-immigrant sentiment in America in the 1920s, exemplified by the case against Sacco and Vanzetti, provides a pertinent reminder of the power of nativism as an establishment faces threatening social changes. -
KDKA goes on the air from Pittsburgh
The first commercial radio station was KDKA in Pittsburgh, which went on the air in the evening of Nov. 2, 1920, with a broadcast of the returns of the Harding-Cox presidential election.
The success of the KDKA broadcast and of the musical programs that were initiated thereafter motivated others to install similar stations; a total of eight were operating in the United States by the end of 1921. -
1st Miss American Pageant
The first Miss America pageant was held on September 8, 1921. · It originally started as a way to keep tourists in Atlantic City after Labor Day.
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Miss America is more than a title, it's a movement of empowering young women everywhere to dream big, to insist that their voices be heard and to inspire change in the world around them. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal involved Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall, who accepted large sums of money and valuable gifts from private oil companies. In exchange, Fall allowed the companies to control government oil reserves in Elk Hills, California, and Teapot Dome, Wyoming.
The Teapot Dome scandal has historically been regarded as the worst such scandal in the United States – the "high water mark" of cabinet corruption. It is often used as a benchmark for comparison with subsequent scandals. -
1st Winter Olympics Held
On January 25, 1924, the first Winter Olympics take off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps. This event was a great success, attracting 10,004 paying spectators, and was retrospectively named the First Olympic Winter Games.
The Olympic Games are an international sports festival, held every four years. The ultimate goals are to cultivate human beings, through sport, and contribute to world peace. -
The Great Gatsby published by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, lt depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
It reflected the culture of the 1920s by showing the characters' absence of regard for morals. Showing the societal decadence due to the overall prosperity. In historical context, it was brought by the industrial revolution. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
July 10 to July 21, 1925: In Dayton, Tennessee, the Scopes Monkey Trial begins with John Thomas Scopes, a high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. He was found guilty and was fined $100, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality.
The true importance of the trial was not the verdict, however; the Scopes trial increased American awareness and interest in the issue of teaching theology and/or modern science in public schools. -
Charles Lindberg completes solo flight across the Atlantic
On May 21, 1927, 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.
He changed public opinion on the value of air travel, and laid the foundation for the future development of aviation. -
The Jazz Singer debuts (1st movie with sound)
On December 30, 1927, The Jazz Singer, the first commercially successful full-length feature film with sound, debuts at the Blue Mouse Theater at 1421 5th Avenue in Seattle. The movie uses Warner Brothers' Vitaphone sound-on-disc technology to reproduce the musical score and sporadic episodes of synchronized speech.
It marked the ascendancy of “talkies” and the end of the silent-film era. -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
The mass murder of a group of unarmed bootlegging gang members in Chicago.The massacre was an attempt to eliminate Bugs Moran, head of the North Side Gang. Al Capone was widely assumed to have been responsible for ordering the massacre.
The effects were the contribution to the downfall of both Capone and Moran, the murder of several other gang and mob members, the death of a police officer, the need for some reform in laws, and a higher awareness of mob and gang related activities. -
Black Tuesday (Stock Market Crash)
On Black Monday, October 28, 1929, the Dow declined nearly 13 percent. On the following day, Black Tuesday, the market dropped nearly 12 percent. By mid-November, the Dow had lost almost half of its value.
This began a chain of events that led to the Great Depression, a 10-year economic slump that affected all industrialized countries in the world.