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Sacco and Vanzetti 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 -
1st Miss American Pageant
Miss America 1921 known as the first Miss America pageant an activity designed to attract tourists to extend their Labor Day holiday weekend and enjoy festivities in Atlantic City New Jersey -
1st Winter Olympics Held
The 1924 Winter Olympics officially known as the first Olympic Games and commonly known as Chamonix 1924, were a winter multi-sport event that was held in 1924 in France -
Scopes Monkey Trial
John Scopes, a young popular high school science teacher, agreed to stand as defendant in a test case to challenge the law. He was arrested on May 7, 1925, and charged with teaching the theory of evolution. -
The Great Gatsby published by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald expressed enthusiasm for the title Under the Red White and Blue but it was too late to change it at that stage The novel was published as The Great Gatsby -
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 the morning of February 14, 1929. They were lined up against a wall and shot by four unknown assailants, too of whom were disguised as police officers -
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