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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.
- 1940. April 1, 1940 - The 1940 census indicates a United States population of 132,164,569. This represented an increase of 7.3% since 1930, the lowest rate of increase in the 20th century.
- 1941. March 11, 1941 - The George Washington Carver Museum is dedicated at the Tuskegee Institute with the participation of such luminaries as Henry Ford.
- 1942. February 19, 1942 - Executive order 9066 is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, confining 110,000 Japanese Americans, including 75,000 citizens, on the West Coast into relocation camps during World War II.
- 1943. February 14, 1943 - The United States encounters its first major defeat in the European theater of World War II at the Battle for Kasserine Pass in Tunisia.
- 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.
Feb 13, 2015 · Offers a chronological timeline of important dates, events, and milestones in United States history. This is a timeline of United States history, comprising most legal and territorial changes and political events in the United States and its predecessor states.
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The Dust Bowl Between 1930 and 1940, the southwestern Great Plains region of the United States suffered a severe drought. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal In the summer of 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor of New York, was nominated as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party.
