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Pluto discovered
Pluto was discovered by the self taught astronomer Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. Pluto is often called a planet however it has been recently classified as the first discovered of a large number of bodies orbiting generally outside the planetary zone in a region we call the Kuiper belt. -
Gandhi's Salt March
The salt march began with Dandi on march 12, 1930 and was an important part of the Indian independence movement. It was a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly in colonial India, and triggered the wider Civil Disobedience Movement. -
Al Capone Imprisoned for Income Tax evasion
Al capone was an american gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate. Capone moved to Chicago to take advantage of a new opportunity to make money smuggling illegal alcoholic beverages into the city during Prohibition. He also engaged in various other criminal activities, -
henry ford closes his automobiles
Henry ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, He was a sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Although Ford did not invent the automobile or the assembly line he developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle class Americans could afford. -
Zippo lighters introduced
Mr. Blaisdell fabricated a rectangular case and attached the top of the lighter to the case with a hinge. He retained the chimney design which protected the flame under adverse conditions. The result was a lighter that looked good and was easy to operate. -
Air Conditioning Invented
Willis Carrier completed his invention to control humidity and the fundamental building block for modern air conditioning. -
FDR Launches New Deal
The new deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
first nazi concentration camp
The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler's appointment as chancellor in January 1933. In the weeks after the Nazis came to power. -
the great terror in the soviet union
The Great Purge was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1934 to 1940. It involved a large scale purge of the Communist Party and government officials, repression of peasants and the Red Army leadership. -
Bonnie and Clyde Killed by Police
Bonnie and clyde are a couple that would team up to do bad things. The pair loved the attention, posing for snapshots with their arsenal of weapons. In early 1934, they barely escaped a trap in Missouri, killing two lawmen in the ensuing shootout. -
John Maynard Keynes Suggests New Economic Theory
Keynesian economics is the view that in the short run, especially during recessions, economic output is strongly influenced by aggregate demand. In the Keynesian view, aggregate demand does not necessarily equal the productive capacity of the economy. -
Alcoholics Anonymous Founded
Alcoholics Anonymous is an international mutual aid fellowship founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith in Akron, Ohio. AA states that its primary purpose is "to stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety". -
Hoover Dam Completed
Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression. -
spanish civil war begins
The Spanish Civil War was fought from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939 between the Republicans who were loyal to the democratically elected Spanish Republic, and the Nationalists, a rebel group led by General Francisco Franco. -
Amelia Earhart Vanishes
On July 2, 1937, the Lockheed aircraft carrying American aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Frederick Noonan is reported missing near Howland Island in the Pacific. The pair were attempting to fly around the world when they lost their bearings. -
Japan invades china
The war was the result of a decades long Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily and to secure its vast raw material reserves and other economic resources, particularly food and labour. -
Hitler Annexes Austria
On this day, Adolf Hitler announces an "Anschluss" between Germany and Austria, in fact annexing the smaller nation into a greater Germany. -
broadcast of the war causes panic
People used to turn on their radios to listen to music, hear, talk and see programs, and to get news. On Sunday, October 30, 1938, millions of radio listeners turned on their radios and heard realistic sounding descriptions of an attack of Martians on the United States. -
British White Paper Issued
The White Paper of 1939 was a policy paper issued by the British government under Neville Chamberlain in which among several key provisions, the idea of partitioning Palestine was abandoned. -
world war 2 begins
world war 2 was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, though global related conflicts begun earlier. It involved the vast majority of the world's nations including all of the great powers.
