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The Grand Ole Opry transmits its first radio broadcast.
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Air Commerce Act is passed, providing aid and assistance to the airline industry, plus federal oversight under the Department of Commerce for civil air safety.
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Future Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King is born in his grandfather's house in Atlanta, Georgia.
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In protest of the Securities Act of 1933, major Wall Street firms refused to bring new issues of stock to the market.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's term begins.
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The dust bowl begins, which starts dying of crops and animal and starts drought.
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Mississippi was the first state to issue industrial development bonds, in an effort to use state financing power to build up private industry.
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The Revenue Act, backed by investment management firms, accorded special tax treatment to open-ended mutual funds, which the legislation dubbed "mutual investment companies," making them more attractive to investors.