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America in the 1930s Extensive library of projects on America in the Great Depression from American Studies at the University of Virginia The 1930s Timeline year by year timeline of events in science and technology, politics and society, culture and international events with embedded audio and video.
1930 - Hawley-Smoot Tariff; 1930 - Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto; 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 ...
1930–1931 – Crazy Horse’s lifelong friend, He Dog, is interviewed by journalist Eleanor Hinman and Nebraska writer Mari Sandoz. A record drought in the eastern part of the nation [ 5 ] sees Upper Tract , West Virginia record only 9.50 inches (241.3 mm) of precipitation for the year – the record lowest for a calendar year in the US east ...
April 1 – The North American NA-16, prototype of the North American T-6 Texan or Harvard flying trainer, flies for the first time. [ 4 ] April 14 – Dust Bowl : The great Black Sunday dust storm (made famous by Woody Guthrie in his "dust bowl ballads") hits hardest in eastern New Mexico and Colorado, and western Oklahoma.
March 9 – Great Depression: The U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation. March 10 – The 6.4 M w Long Beach earthquake affects the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII ( Severe ), leaving 115–120 people dead, and causing an estimated $40 million in damage.
Current events; Random article; ... 1930s American radio programs (4 C, 236 P) S. ... Timeline of the history of the United States (1930–1949)
“During the Great Depression, the average home in America was $3,900, the average car was $600, and the average monthly rent was $18 or $216 a year, and the average salary was $1,300 for the ...
Valerie Solanas, American radical feminist, attempted murderer of Andy Warhol (d. 1988) April 10. John Madden, American football player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2021) Bobby Smith, American singer, songwriter (d. 2013) April 12 – Charles Napier, American actor (d. 2011) April 14. Bobby Nichols, American professional golfer