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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; 1931 – Empire State Building opens in New York. 1931 – Japanese invasion of Manchuria, start of World War II in the ...
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. AS@UVA
Timeline of pre–United States history; Timeline of the history of the United States (1760–1789) Timeline of the history of the United States (1790–1819) Timeline of the history of the United States (1820–1859) Timeline of the history of the United States (1860–1899) Timeline of the history of the United States (1900–1929)
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 of the Mississippi. [6] Averaged over the contiguous US the twelve months from July 1930 to June 1931 remains the driest such period on ...
USA (NASA) ISEE-3/ICE [35] 4 December 1978: First extended (multi-year) orbital exploration of Venus (from 1978 to 1992). USA (NASA) Pioneer Venus Orbiter: 5 March 1979: Jupiter flyby (closest approach 349,000 km) Encounters with five Jovian moons. Discovery of volcanism on Io. USA (NASA) Voyager 1: 1 September 1979: First flyby of Saturn.
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.
On July 29, 1958, the U.S. Congress officially passed legislation that established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) -- a civilian agency that is responsible for ...
Golden Fetters: The gold standard and the Great Depression, 1919–1939. 1992. Feinstein. Charles H. The European Economy between the Wars (1997) Garraty, John A. The Great Depression: An Inquiry into the causes, course, and Consequences of the Worldwide Depression of the Nineteen-Thirties, as Seen by Contemporaries and in Light of History (1986)