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Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as President.
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Recorded sales of shares hits 16,410,000. New York Times index of industrial stocks drops nearly forty points, the worst drop in Wall Street history to that point.
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By year's end, 1350 banks have suspended operations during 1930
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Mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison. (He was released in 1939.)
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By year's end, 2,293 banks have suspended operations during 1931
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Aviator Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son, Charles Augustus, Jr., is kidnapped from the family home in New Jersey.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover to become the 32nd President.
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Construction begins on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge
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Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany.
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Agricultural Adjustment Act is passed, which authorizing paying farmers not to grow crops. (AAA)
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Albert Einstein arrived in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
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Civil Works Administration (CWA ) is created by an executive order of the President.
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21st Amendment is ratified (repeals 18th amendment, ending alcohol prohibition).
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The Jones-Connally Farm Relief Act passed, a bill that effectively places an expanded roster of farm products under the control of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA).
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The Emergency Appropriations Relief Act is passed, creating the Works Progress Administration. (WPA)
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Social Security Act is passed
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Parker Brothers releases the board game "Monopoly".
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FDR defeats Alfred M. Landon, Governor of Kansas, to win his second term as President
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Economic recovery stops, and the economy enters a second depression.
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Economic depression ends, and the economy begins to recover.
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The Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act is signed into law.
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Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt urging creation of an atomic weapons research program.
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Germany invades Poland.
