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Charles Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic Ocean. On May 21, 1927, he landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
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The stock market crash of 1929 was a four-day collapse of stock prices that began on October 24, 1929. It was the worst decline in U.S. history.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt was in his second term as governor of New York when he was elected as the nation's 32nd president in 1932.The only president to serve more than two terms was Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1940 he won the election for his third term. Four years later in 1944, he ran again and became the only president to be elected to a fourth term.
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Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, taking 15 hours 18 minutes, flying a Lockheed Vega 5B.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1939, which took action to bring about immediate economic relief as well as reforms in industry, agriculture, finance, waterpower, labour, and housing, NRA, AAA, FDIC, TVA, FERA, CCC.
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On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland from the west; two days later, France and Britain declared war on Germany, beginning World War II. On September 17, Soviet troops invaded Poland from the east.
