1930's

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
06/17/1930	Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act	the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act is passed by congress.
03/04/1933	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes president.
03/09/1933	the New Deal	President Roosevelt starts to make bills to resolve some of the Depression's problems.
01/01/1934	Dust Bowl	Dust storms ruin about 100 million acres and damage another 200 million acres of cropland in Kansas, Texas, Colorado, and Oklahoma. Citation: http://www.infoplease.com/year/1934.html
08/14/1935	Social Security	President Roosevelt creates the Social Security Act.
11/07/1936	FDR	President Roosevelt is re-elected for a second term.
05/06/1937	Hindenburg	The Hindenburg explodes in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
06/25/1938	Fair Labor Standards Act	This established minimum wage in the U.S.
10/30/1938	Orson Welles	Orson Welles broadcasts his adaptation of H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds, creating a nationwide panic as listeners believe that aliens have landed in New Jersey Citation: http://www.infoplease.com/year/1938.html
01/01/1939	Marian Anderson	The Daughters of the American Revolution refuses to let Marian Anderson perform because she was black.
09/01/1939	World War Two	President Roosevelt declares the U.S. to be neutral in the war.