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The stock market crashes starting the Great Depression
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In parts of the US men and women smash the windows of grocery markets and make off with fruit, canned goods, bacon, and ham
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Three thousand unemployed workers march on the Ford Motor Company's plant in River Rouge, Michigan.
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The Federal Agricultural Program orders the slaughter of 6 million pigs to stabilize prices
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A three-day dust storm blows 350 million tons of soil off of the terrain of the West and Southwest and blows as far east as New York and Boston
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FDR signs the Wagner National Labor Relations Act
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Photographer Dorothea Lange takes the picture known as the Migrant Mother
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United Automobile Workers strike at the General Motors Plant in Flint, Michigan
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10 people are killed and dozens are wounded when Republic Steel's South Chicago plant workers and their families try to combine a picnic with a rally and demonstration
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Roosevelt is elected winning 60% of the votes from northern cities
