America: Super Power & the Cold War

By Ironquaker
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  • US Congress recognize independence Philippines

  • Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms government wih Von Papen

  • Adolph Hitler dissolves Parliament

  • Mount Rushmore Dedicated

  • FDR Inaugrated as the 32nd President

  • The Game "Monopoly" is Invented

  • US & Canada drop Gold Standard

  • Italy & USSR sign trade agreement

  • Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)

  • 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire

  • Yanks commit 7 errors in 1 game but beat Boston 16-12

  • Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations

  • Albert Einstein arrives in US, a refugee from Nazi Germany

  • FDR creates Civil Works Administration

  • Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany

  • Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR

  • 21st Am ratified, 18th Amendment (Prohibition) repealed (5:32 PM EST)

  • Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison

  • Nazi Germany & Poland sign non-attack treaty for 10 years

  • 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine

  • John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol

  • Driving tests introduced in Britain

  • FDR signs Home Owners Loan Act

  • Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy.

  • Disarmament conference in Geneva fails

  • Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet in Vienna

  • "Night of Long Knives," Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party

  • Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany

  • Adolph Hitler expands German army & navy & creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles

  • Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov assassinated, used by Stalin as the excuse to begin the Great Purge of 1934-38.

  • US Congress accepts FDR's "New Deal"

  • Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews

  • Nazi's deprive German Jews of their citizenship

  • Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army

  • 1st radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E)

  • Hitler announce building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game)

  • The world's first superhero, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in comics.

  • The Hoover Dam is completed.

  • "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, published

  • Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling, Cambridge U v MCC

  • 1 million demonstrate to support French People's Front government

  • Adolph Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin

  • The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.

  • President FDR (D) wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)

  • Daily newspaper comic strip "Superman" debuts

  • Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews

  • Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University

  • The erroneous word "Dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.

  • Stalin requests British, French & Russian anti-nazi pact

  • Batman comics hit street

  • Hitler & Benito Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel"

  • German Nazi's close last Jewish enterprises

  • Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill

  • WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig

  • Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, NZ, South Africa & Canada

  • FDR declares US neutrality at start of WW II in Europe

  • Germany & Russia agree to partition Poland

  • Albert Einstein informs FDR of possibilities of atomic bomb

  • Nazi require wearing of star of David

  • 1st animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed

  • US allows "cash & carry" arms sales during WW II

  • Dutch national debt hits ƒ4,218,553,180.99

  • Tom & Jerry created by Hanna & Barbera debut by MGM

  • World War II: The Netherlands surrenders to Germany.

  • "Captain America" appears in a comic book

  • Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia)

  • 1st helicopter flight of 1 hr duration, Stratford, Ct

  • World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany.

  • German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force

  • German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US battleship Texas

  • Germany, Italy & Romania declares war on Soviet Union during WW II

  • Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy)

  • US & Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WW II

  • World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.

  • 1st US force in Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern Ireland

  • Japanese troops land on Ambon

  • "Archie" comic book debuts

  • FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans

  • 1st bombing on continental US soil, Mount Emily Oregon (WW II)

  • US navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance

  • Bicyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world record (45,848 km)

  • Hitler declares "Total War"

  • Limited gambling legalized in Mexico

  • Italy surrenders to Allies in WWII

  • USS Missouri the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy is launched.

  • Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers

  • 1st Japanese kamikaze attack, US fleet near Iwo Jima

  • Allied aircrafts bombard per accident Fishing, Overijssel

  • Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty"

  • Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by "Enola Gay"

  • US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki

  • V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II (also August 15 depending on time zone)

  • V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends)

  • US recognizes Tito's Yugoslavia government

  • 1st electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50

  • Spain suspended from UN

  • Pres Harry Truman officially proclaims end of WW II

  • State of Prussia ceases to exist.

  • 1st permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (New Jersey)

  • The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect.

  • Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast

  • Mahatma Gandhi assassinated by Nathuram Godse

  • Miranda, famous moon of Uranus, photographed for 1st time

  • Flag of Israel is adopted

  • 1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in

  • 1st US Congressional standing committee headed by Negro (W Dawson)

  • Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune)

  • Uranium mine explosions in East Germany kills 3,700

  • Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb

  • 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters)

  • Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize (poetry)

  • 1st US Negro delegate to UN appointed-ES Sampson

  • Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories

  • US forces invade Korea by crossing 38th parallel

  • Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle

  • US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Argonne Atomic Lab (Ill), to demonstrate lax in security

  • 600,000 march for peace & freedom in Germany

  • "I Love Lucy" debuts on CBS TV

  • 1st rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM

  • Snow storm in Sierra Nevada kills 26

  • Military coup by general Fulgencio Batista in Cuba

  • Mr Potato Head, introduced

  • Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.

  • 1st color network telecast in compatible color, (Boston Mass)

  • Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws

  • Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio & records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" & "I'll Never Stand in Your Way"

  • US explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll

  • 80th Kentucky Derby: Raymond York aboard Determine wins in 2:03

  • 1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia)

  • Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries

  • Walt Disney's 1st television program, "Disneyland," premieres on ABC

  • US & Panama sign canal treaty

  • Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Tournament

  • West Germany joins NATO

  • 1st President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower)

  • Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery Alabama by Rosa Parks

  • A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.

  • Female suffrage in Egypt

  • A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.

  • Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane-Bikini Atoll

  • Fidel Castro lands with "Granma" on coast of Cuba

  • World's biggest glass oven used

  • Larry King's 1st radio broadcast

  • USSR launches Sputnik I, 1st artificial Earth satellite

  • Hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset (Parliament)

  • Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika

  • 1st titanium mill opened, Toronto Ohio

  • Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere & burns up

  • After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion

  • US launches their 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1

  • Army launches 3rd successful US satellite, Explorer III

  • Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere

  • Arturo Frondizi sworn in as president of Argentina

  • USSR launches Sputnik III

  • US manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury

  • Alaska becomes 49th state

  • USSR launches Mechta (Luna 1) for 1st lunar fly-by, 1st solar orbit

  • US Pioneer IV misses Moon & becomes 2nd (US 1st) artificial planet

  • 1st known radar contact is made with Venus

  • West Germany introduces 5 day work week

  • The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design

  • Luna 2 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on Moon

  • HistoryOrb.com. History Orb, 200-2013. Web. 25 May 2013