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Black Tuesday - Stock Market Crash
Postwar prosperity ends in the 1929 Stock Market crash. The plummeting stock prices led to losses between 1929 and 1921 of an estimated $50 billion and started the worst American depresssion in the nation's history. -
Planet Pluto is discovered
Clyde W. Tombaugh, an assistant at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, discovered Pluto. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Otherwise known as the tariff act of 1930 sponsored by senator Reed Smoot -
Star Spangled Banner becomes the national anthem
US president Hoover signed an act to make it the National Anthem was written by Francis Scott. -
Enoure state building is completed
Known as the most famous skyscraper in the world, the tallest for over 40 years. -
Run on the banks
When the banks all began to shut down because everybody was going to withdrawal and take loans out -
Lindbergh Baby Kidnapped
Son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh most highly publicized crimes of the 20th century. -
Franklin D Roosevelt elected President
Last inaguration to b held on the prescribed date of March 4 under the terms of the 20th amendment. -
21st amendment
The manufacture, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverages is no longer illegal. -
New Deal
The deal president Roosevelt that began to pull us out of the depression, even though it handed way too much power over to the president. -
Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) established.
A federal agency which holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities' laws. -
Social Security Act
An act to take out what were commonly thought of as dangers such as old age, unemployment, or loss of the 'money maker' of the home, by financially supporting those who need. -
Hoover Dam completed
The completioin of a massive dam that changed about everything, it was known as the 'Man On The Moon' of the 1930's -
Jessie Owens wins four gold medals at Berlin Olympics
Black American to embarass Hitler in the Olympics and to win four gold medals, a record at that time. Jessie Owens assisted black rights, and assisted in the war indirectly. -
'Gone With the Wind' by Margaret Mitchell published
a very common book, now labeled as a historical romance. -
FDR re-elected
Re-elected for a 2nd term, FDR will continue his reign of power and presidency. -
Hindenburg Crashes
A passenger airhsip catches fire and crashes in Germany. This event ends the wra of airships. -
Amelia Earhart disappears
American aviatrix, flew solo across Atlantic Ocean -
War of the Worlds Broadcast
Broadcast aired of Columbia Vroadcasting system. -
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck published
a book awarded a nobel piece prize a while after being published, essential to the late 30's. -
The Wizard of Oz released
The Wizard of Oz was an amazing story so relative to the time and even to this day can make relations. -
Germany invades Poland
The day the 'wind up' of Germany and the Soviet Union invade Poland.
