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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. -
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 Pittsburg
KDKA went on the air in Pittsburgh as the world's first commercially licensed station on November 2, 1920. -
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 that won the first competition. -
1st Winter Olympics Held
The 1924 Winter Olympics known as the I Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Chamonix 1924. It was were a winter multi-sport event that was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. -
The Great Gatsby published by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Set in Jazz Age New York it tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
The Scopes “monkey trial” was the moniker journalist H. L. Mencken applied to the 1925 prosecution of a criminal action brought by the state of Tennessee against high school teacher John T. Scopes for violating the state's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools. -
The Jazz Singer debuts (1st movie with sound)
The Jazz Singer American musical film released in 1927 was the first feature length movie with synchronized dialogue. It marked the ascendancy of “talkies” and the end of the silent film era. -
Charles Lindberg completes solo flight across the Atlantic
On May 21, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in history flying his Spirit of St. -
Black Tuesday (Stock Market Crash)
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, Crash of '29, or Black Tuesday, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in late 1929. It began in September with a sharp decline in share prices on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and ended in mid-November. -
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