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"Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded 16 million shares on New Yourk Times exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost wiping out thousamds of investors.
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Under the direction of architects Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates, the framework rises 4 ½ stories per week. 1931: On May 1, President Hoover presses a button in Washington, D.C. officially opening and turning on the Empire State Building's lights
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The street corners of New York City are crowded with apple-sellers. Nearly 6,000 unemployed individuals work at selling apples for five cents apiece.
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" was first used y the US Navy and by President Wilson. It was made the national anthem by a congressional resolution, signed by Herbert Hoover
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Three thousand unemployed workers march on the Ford Motor Company's plant in River Rouge, Michigan. Dearborn police and Ford's company guards attack the workers, killing four and injuring many more.
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Before Roosevelt became president, he was the Governor of New York. He was in office for four terms.
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The Dust Bowl was the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America. By 1940, more than 2.5 million people had fled from the regions affected by the Dyst Bowl
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Congress passed the first Neutrality Act prohibiting the export of “arms, ammunition, and implements of war” from the United States to foreign nations at war
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The Hindenburg went down in Lakehurst, New Jersey. This killed 36 people and miraculously 159 people survived. The aircraft burnt up in minutes.
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World War ll basically created the allies and the axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who first took office in 1933 as America's 32nd president, is nominated for an unprecedentedthird term. Roosevelt, a Democrat, would eventually be elected to a record four terms in office, the only U.S. president to serve more than two terms.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Selective Service and Training Act, which requires all male citizens between the ages of 26 and 35 to register for the military draft
