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Sep 16, 2010 · The 1930s were the decade of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl and other problems, but also the Franklin D. Roosevelt presidency and Hollywood’s Golden Age.
The 1930s (pronounced "nineteen-thirties" and commonly abbreviated as "the '30s" or "the Thirties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1930, and ended on December 31, 1939. In the United States, the Dust Bowl led to the nickname the "Dirty Thirties".
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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.
1930's Major News Events in History. 1930 Mahatma Gandhi and his followers march 200 miles to the salt beds of Jalalpur ; 1931 US suffers worst ever drought in its history, leading to the Dust Bowl years; 1932 The Great Depression influences economies worldwide. More than 24.5% of the population are unemployed in the United States.
Feb 29, 2024 · Great Britain struggled with low growth and recession during most of the second half of the 1920s. The country did not slip into severe depression, however, until early 1930, and its peak-to-trough decline in industrial production was roughly one-third that of the United States.
Read more about some of the breaking news events of the 1930s. 1930. More than four million people are unemployed as a result of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. In 1930, Pluto was the last...
Oct 29, 2009 · By 1930, 4 million Americans looking for work could not find it; that number had risen to 6 million in 1931. Meanwhile, the country’s industrial production had dropped by half. Bread lines, soup...
