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1930 – Frozen vegetables, packaged by Clarence Birdseye, become the first frozen food to go on sale; 1930 – The Democrats take Congress in the Midterms. Will keep it until 1946. 1930 - Hawley-Smoot Tariff; 1930 - Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto; 1930 - Sinclair Lewis is the first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature
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 ...
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".
The first mass work stoppage in the 195-year history of the United States Post Office Department began with a walkout of letter carriers in Brooklyn and Manhattan, [42] soon involving 210,000 of the nation's 750,000 postal employees. With mail service virtually paralyzed in New York, Detroit, and Philadelphia, President Nixon declared a state ...
Economic forecasters throughout 1930 optimistically predicted an economic rebound come 1931, and felt vindicated by a stock market rally in the spring of 1930. [1] The stock market crash in the first few weeks had a limited direct effect on the broader economy, as only 16% of the U.S. population was invested in the market in any form.
1930 was a common year ... This is the closest moon distance at 356,397 km (221,455 mi) in recent history, and the next one will be on January 1, 2257, at 356,371 km ...
Agatha Christie's first Miss Marple novel, The Murder at the Vicarage.; An Anthology of War Poems, compiled by Frederick Brereton.; T. S. Eliot's poem Ash Wednesday.; W. Somerset Maugham's novel Cakes and Ale.
1930s; 1940s; 1950s; ... Timeline of United States history (1930–1949) List of years in the United States; 1933 in the United States: 1933 in U.S. states and ...