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Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone appointed the 29-year-old Hoover as acting director of the Bureau. -
Adolf Hitler wrote an autobiography called Mein Kampf (My Struggle). The book describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. -
16 million shares of stock were quickly sold by panicking investors who had lost faith in the American economy. -
Severe drought hit the Midwest and southern Great Plains in 1930. Massive dust storms began in 1931. -
Roosevelt defeated Republican president Herbert Hoover in a landslide. -
Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. -
allowed single men between the ages of 18 and 25 to enlist in work programs -
FDR issued Executive Order 7034, establishing the Works Progress Administration. -
Braddock won the Heavyweight Championship of the World as the 10-to-1 underdog in what was called "the greatest fistic upset" -
Jesse Owens went to Berlin for the 1936 Olympics in Germany and won 4 gold medals against Hitler's "superior race". -
Nazi leaders unleashed a series of pogroms against the Jewish population in Germany and recently incorporated territories. -
An American realist novel written by John Steinbeck -
Germany invaded Poland to regain lost territory and ultimately rule their neighbor to the east. The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war. -
The Wizard of Oz premieres in the Orpheum Theater in Green Bay, Wisconsin -
Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech on how he envisioned a world in which all people had freedom of speech and of religion and freedom from want and fear.