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1st Miss American Pageant
Atlantic City was home to the first Miss America Pageant in 1921 which included representatives from 7 cities and Atlantic City. Sixteen year-old Margaret Gorman from Washington, DC (at far left in white hat) won the first competition. -
1st Winter Olympics Held
Chamonix 1924 helped make winter sports - previously considered elitist – more popular and more accessible. The competition proved a great success, attracting 10,004 paying spectators in all, many of them travelling to the resort from across France as news of the event began to spread. -
Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested for armed robbery and murder
Sacco and Vanzetti were charged with committing robbery and murder at the Slater and Morrill shoe factory in South Braintree. On the afternoon of April 15, 1920, payroll clerk Frederick Parmenter and security guard Alessandro Berardelli were shot to death and robbed of over $15,000 in cash. -
KDKA goes on the air from Pittsburgh
KDKA went on the air in Pittsburgh as the world's first commercially licensed station. -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
It centered on Interior Secretary Albert Bacon Fall, who had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, as well as two locations in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. The leases were the subject of an investigation by Senator Thomas J. Walsh. -
The Great Gatsby is published
On March 19, 1925, Fitzgerald expressed enthusiasm for the title Under the Red, White, and Blue, but it was too late to change it. The novel was published as The Great Gatsby on April 10, 1925. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
John Thomas Scopes, and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925, in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it illegal for teachers to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. -
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 (1st movie with sound)
The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American part-talkie musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music and lip-synchronous singing and speech (in several isolated sequences). -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
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 on February 14, 1929. They were lined up against a wall and shot by four unknown assailants, two of whom were disguised as police officers. -
Black Tuesday (Stock Market Crash)
On Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the New York Stock Exchange experienced a panic sell that wiped out thousands of investors and marked the beginning of the Great Depression.