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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
This was very important in the 1920s because it was the world's first commercially licensed station in Pittsburgh. During this station, William G Harding delivered his message of the first presidential inauguration over the air causing the population in Pittsburgh to rise. -
1st Miss American Pageant
This event started as a fun activity to attract tourists to extend their Labor Day holiday weekend and enjoy festivities in Atlantic City, New Jersey. -
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. -
1st Winter Olympics Held
This event was important to the 1920s because it was very successful because it was well-organized and equipped with new facilities. -
The Great Gatsby published by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
Scopes challenged Tennessee law forbidding the teaching of evolution. The case arose when seeking to test the constitutional validity of the Butler Act, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) placed advertisements in Tennessee newspapers offering to pay the expenses of any teacher willing to challenge the law. -
Charles Lindberg completes solo flight across the Atlantic
Charles Lindberg flies from New York to Parris across the Atlantic being the first person to do so. Later on, his child ends up being kidnapped and murdered causing him to become a nazi sympathizer as a way to not want to go to war. -
The Jazz Singer debuts (1st movie with sound)
The Jazz Singer, American musical film, released in 1927, that was the first feature-length movie with synchronized dialogue. It marked the ascendancy of “talkies” and the end of the silent-film era. -
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 that occurred on Saint Valentine's Day 1929. The men were gathered at a Lincoln Park, Chicago garage on the morning of February 14, 1929. -
Black Tuesday (Stock Market Crash)
On this day the stock market crashed because of the Great Depression causing millions of people to go into debt.
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