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Warner Brothers Pictures is established
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Calvin Coolidge wins his first election as President with the Electoral margin being 382 to 136.
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Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as the first woman governor of the United States in Wyoming.
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The NBC Radio Network is formed by Westinghouse, General Electric, and RCA.
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Work on the gigantic sculpture at Mount Rushmore begins. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum would make a statue of four presidents; George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, fourteen years later.
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During the 1929 Stock Market crash the plummeting stock prices led to losses of an estimated $50 billion and started the worst American depression in the nation's history.
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The Star-Spangled Banner, by Francis Scott Key, is established as the national anthem.
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The Social Security Act is passed by Congress as part of the New Deal. It would begin payouts to retirees within two years.
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The National Minimum Wage is signed into law within the federal legislation known as the Fair Labor Standards Act. It established a minimum wage of $0.25 at the time.
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September 5, 1939 - The United States declares its neutrality in the European war after Germany invaded Poland, effectively beginning World War II after a year of European attempts to appease Hitler and the aims of expansionist Nazi Germany.