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1938 - Thornton Wilder ’s play Our Town wins Pulitzer Prize. 1938 - The comic book superhero Superman debuts in Action Comics #1 (June 1938) 1938 – Orson Welles ' The War of the Worlds broadcast. 1939 – Hatch Act, aimed at corrupt political practices and prevented federal civil servants from campaigning.
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July 30 – New York City television station W2XBS is put in charge of NBC broadcast engineers. July 31 – The radio drama The Shadow airs for the first time. August 6 – Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York City and disappears. August 7 – Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana.
Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945) Robert H. Goddard (1882–1945), the American physicist and inventor who built and launched the world's first liquid-propellant rocket on March 16, 1926. [1] Goddard held 214 patents for his inventions and pioneering innovations in liquid-propelled, guided, and multi-stage rockets.
Here is a look at a timeline of the history of the United States. Timeline of the History of the United States Colonial Period (~1600s – 1763) 1580s-1600s. 1585: The first English colony in North America is founded and called the Roanoke Colony. 1590: The Roanoke Colony is found abandoned, mysteriously disappearing. Historians still cannot ...
May 5 – The first Three Stooges short, Woman Haters, is released. May 9 – 1934 West Coast waterfront strike: A general strike is engaged in San Francisco. May 11 – Dust Bowl: A strong 2-day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl. May 15.
