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Sacco and Vanzetti arrested for armed robbery and murder
Charged with the crime of murder on May 5, Sacco and Vanzetti were indicted on September 14, 1920, and put on trial on May 21, 1921, at Dedham, Norfolk County. -
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
An activity designed to attract tourists to extend their Labor Day holiday weekend and enjoy festivities in Atlantic City, New Jersey. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Wyoming Democratic senator John Kendrick introduced a resolution that set in motion one of the most significant investigations in Senate history. -
1st Winter Olympics Held
The International Olympic Committee gave its patronage to a Winter Sports Week to take place in 1924 in Chamonix, France -
The Great Gatsby published by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby, the third novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was published in 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
Scopes Trial, also called Scopes Monkey Trial, highly publicized trial of a Dayton, Tennessee, high-school teacher, John T. Scopes, charged with violating state law by teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. -
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. -
Charles Lindbergh completes solo flight across the Atlantic
Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in history, flying his Spirit of St. -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the mass murder of a group of unarmed bootlegging gang members in Chicago on February 14, 1929. The bloody incident dramatized the intense rivalry for control of illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition era in the United States. -
Black Tuesday (Stock Market Crash)
"Black Tuesday" hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Around $14 billion of stock value was lost, wiping out thousands of investors. The panic selling reached its peak with some stocks having no buyers at any price.