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- 1930. February 18, 1930 - American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers the planet Pluto at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. Tombaugh was also known as one of the few serious astronomers to have claimed to sight UFO's.
- 1931. February 14, 1931 - The ruins of the ancient Indian villages around Canyon de Chelly are designated a national monument by President Herbert Hoover.
- 1932. January 22, 1932 - The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is established to stimulate banking and business. Unemployment in 1932 reached twelve million workers.
- 1933. March 4, 1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for the first time. His speech with its hallmark phrase, "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself," begins to rally the public and Congress to deal with great depression issues.
1930 - Sinclair Lewis is the first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature. 1931 – Empire State Building opens in New York. 1931 – Japanese invasion of Manchuria, start of World War II in the Pacific. 1931 – The Whitney Museum of American Art opens to the public in New York City.
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- Events of 1930. Pluto was discovered as the solar system's ninth planet. (It has since been demoted to a dwarf planet.) Josef Stalin began collectivizing agriculture in the Soviet Union, by erasing borders between farms and attempting state-run massive farm operations.
- Events of 1931. Gangster Al Capone was imprisoned for income tax evasion. The Empire State Building was completed. Nine Black teens and young men known as the Scottsboro Boys were falsely accused of raping two white women in a landmark civil rights and fair trial case.
- Events of 1932. Charles Lindbergh's baby was kidnapped in the story riveted the United States. Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
- Events of 1933. New President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched the New Deal to combat the effects of The Great Depression. Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany, and the first Nazi concentration camp was established.
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The stock market crash of October 29, 1929(also known as Black Tuesday) provided a dramatic end to an era of unprecedented, and unprecedentedly lopsided, prosperity. The disaster had been brewing for years, though different historians and economists offer different explanations for the crisis: Some blame the increasingly uneven distribution of weal...
The 1930s saw natural disasters as well as manmade ones: For most of the decade, people in the Plains states suffered through the worst drought in American history, as well as hundreds of severe dust storms, or "black blizzards," that carried away the soil and made it all but impossible to plant crops. By 1940, 2.5 million people had abandoned thei...
President Herbert Hooverwas slow to respond to these events. Though he believed that the “crazy and dangerous” behavior of Wall Street speculators had contributed in a significant way to the crisis, he also believed that solving such problems was not really the federal government’s job. As a result, most of the solutions he suggested were voluntary...
By 1932, many Americans were fed up with Hoover and what his political opponent Franklin D. Roosevelt called his “hear nothing, see nothing, do nothing government. The New York governor and Democratic presidential challenger, Roosevelt promised a change: “I pledge myself,” he said, “to a New Dealfor the American people.” This New Deal would use the...
During the Depression, most people did not have much money to spare. However, by 1938 about 80 percent of American households had radios—and listening to the radio was free. The most popular broadcasts were those that distracted listeners from their everyday struggles: comedy programs like “Amos ‘n’ Andy,” soap operas and sporting events. Swing mus...
President Roosevelt’s early efforts had begun to restore Americans’ confidence, but they had not ended the Depression. In the spring of 1935, he launched a second, more aggressive set of federal programs, sometimes called the Second New Deal. The Works Progress Administration provided jobs for unemployed people and built new public works like bridg...
In 1936, while campaigning for a second term, President Roosevelt told a roaring crowd at Madison Square Garden that “The forces of ‘organized money’ are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.” He went on: “I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met the...
By the end of the 1930s, the New Deal had come to an end. Growing Congressional opposition made it difficult for President Roosevelt to introduce new programs. At the same time, as the threat of war in Europe loomed on the horizon—Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany in 1933, and invaded Poland in 1939—the president turned his attention awa...
Timeline: 1930s. Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society. Breaking News of the 1930s. PBS: American Experience. List of 1930's Major News Events in History. The People History.
Jul 13, 2017 · The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an ambitious employment and infrastructure program created by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1935, during the bleakest days of the Great Depression.
Hoover attempted to stop “the downward spiral” which contradicts many contemporary critics who accuse Hoover of sharing Mellon’s laissez-faire viewpoint. In 1930, Congress approved and President Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act which raised tariffs on thousands of imported items.
The tremendous gains labor unions experienced in the 1930s resulted, in part, from the pro-union stance of the Roosevelt administration and from legislation enacted by Congress during the early New Deal. The National Industrial Recovery Act (1933) provided for collective bargaining.
