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Sacco and Vanzetti arrested for armed robbery and murder
The Sacco and Vanzetti case is widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice in American legal history. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrants and anarchists, were executed for murder by the state of Massachusetts in 1927 on the basis of doubtful ballistics evidence. The many years later the governor formally apologizes -
KDKA goes on the air from Pittsburgh
The first ever commercial radio station was KDKA in Pittsburgh, which went on the air on Nov. 2, 1920, with a broadcast of the returns of the Harding-Cox presidential election. -
KDKA goes on the air from Pittsburgh
The first commercial radio station was KDKA in Pittsburgh, which went on the air on Nov. 2, 1920, with a broadcast of the returns of the Harding-Cox presidential election. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923. Convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies, Fall became the first presidential cabinet member to go to prison; no one was convicted of paying the bribes. -
1st Miss American Pageant
In September of 1921 Margaret Gorman won the first ever Miss America Pageant. -
1st Miss American Pageant
Margaret Gorman wins first ever Miss America Pageant in 1921, -
1st Winter Olympics Held
The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. Held from January 25th until February 5th. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
The Scopes Trial, was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. -
1st Winter Olympics Held
The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. Held from January 25th until February 5th. -
The Great Gatsby published by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the1920's on Long Island, the novel tells the point of view of narrator Nick Carraway's experience with millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's desire to get back with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan who is married. -
Charles Lindberg completes solo flight across the Atlantic
Charles A. Lindbergh lands at Le Bourget Field in Paris, successfully completing the first ever solo, nonstop transatlantic flight and the first ever nonstop flight between New York to Paris. -
Charles Lindberg completes solo flight across the Atlantic
Charles A. Lindbergh lands at Le Bourget Field in Paris, successfully completing the first ever solo, nonstop transatlantic flight and the first ever nonstop flight between New York to Paris. -
The Jazz Singer debuts
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. -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the 1929 murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang that occurred on Saint Valentine's Day. The men were gathered at a Lincoln Park garage on that morning. -
Black Tuesday
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929. It started in October and ended in November, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.