1930
  • Veterans Administration is formed
  • American Lutheran Church formed
  • Pluto is discovered
  • 1st analog computer developed
  • United Airlines hires
  • Philadelphia Athletics win series
  • Comic strip Blondie debutes
  • US Population 122,775,046
  • Greyhound Bus Company formed
  • Selassie Crowned Emperor


    1931
  • Empire State Building opens
  • Scrabble hits markets
  • Al Capone imprisoned
  • Spain becomes a republic
  • US get National Anthem
  • Neveda legalized gambling
  • Thomas Edison dies
  • Fiberglass is introduced
  • Alka-Seltzer hits markets
  • Nylon is invented
  • St. Louis Cardinals win series
  • Comic Strip Dick Tracy debutes

    1932
  • Franklin Roosevelt President
  • John Garner Vice President
  • Depression hits World hard
  • 14 million out of work
  • Farm prices cut in half
  • 44% of US Banks Fail
  • Earhart hold record
  • Von Hindenburg German President
  • Lindbergh baby kidnapped
  • Zippo lighters are introduced
  • Skippy peanut butter debutes
  • Three Musketeers Bar at stores
  • Revlon is founded
  • Radio City Music Hall opens
  • NY host Winter Olymics
  • NY Yankees win World Series
  • France wins Davis Cup

    1933
  • 21st Amendment repeals Prohibition
  • NRA, PWA, NIRA & CCC enacted
  • Emergency Banking take effect
  • Dust Bowl debutes
  • Armstrong invents FM
  • Ritz Crackers are introduced
  • Vitamin D milk hits markets
  • Newsweek begin publication
  • Roosevelt starts fireside chats
  • The Lone Ranger debutes
  • Chicago Bears are NFL Champs
  • NY Giants wins World Series
  • Albert Einstein visits US
  • Hitler becomes Chancellor
  • Germany leave League of Nations

    1934
  • Donald Duck arrives at Disney
  • Monopoly is the craze
  • Bonnie & Clyde are killed
  • John Dillinger killed
  • Dollfussof Austria murdered
  • 726 carat diamond found
  • Cardenas President of Mexico
  • Liberty League founded
  • Llijah Muhammad becomes leader
  • Joseph P. Kenndey heads SEC
  • Laundromat is introduced
  • St. Louis Cardinals win series
  • Italy wins World Cup

    1935
  • Shirley Temple wins Oscar
  • Electric Guitar is produced
  • Social Security Act established
  • Campbell set land speed record
  • Nazi laws remove Jewish rights
  • Alcoholics Anonymous is founded
  • Uranium 235 is discovered
  • Fibber MaGee & Molly debute
  • Detroit Tigers win World Series
  • Berwanger wins 1st Heisman Trophy
  • Chain Letter is the craze

    1936
  • Franklin Roosevelt President
  • John Garner Vice President
  • 35mm film introduced
  • Baseball Hall of Fame opens
  • Owens wins 4 Gold Medals
  • NY Yankees win World Series
  • Boulder Dam is completed
  • Pierced Ears are the fad
  • Henie wins 3rd Gold medal
  • Volkswagen is introduced
  • Blum wins election in France
  • Vitamin pills hit markets
  • Owens wins 4 Gold Medals
  • Germany defies treaty
  • German train sets speed record


    1937
  • The Hindenberg explodes
  • Amelia Earhart disappears
  • Shopping carts hit stores
  • Spam goes to market
  • Cellophane Tape introduced
  • Automatic Transmission debutes
  • Howard Johnson are founded
  • NY Yankees win the World Series
  • Golden Gate Bridge dedicated
  • Nat'l Basketball League founded
  • Japan invades China
  • George VI crowned in England

    1938
  • Disney's Snow White debutes
  • The March of Dimes founded
  • Teflon is discovered
  • Nylon Toothbrushes hit market
  • NY Yankees win World Series
  • Queen Elizabeth ship launched
  • Spitfire Plane in RAF
  • Ballpoint Pen introduced
  • Superman comic debutes
  • "War of the World" sets panic

    1939
  • Germany invades Poland
  • Sikorsky builds helicoper
  • Gone With the Wind debutes
  • Pan Am goes International
  • DDT introduced for animals
  • Chile earthquake kills 30,000
  • Spanish Civil War ends
  • France ends public excutions
  • Uranium atom split
  • Wizard of Oz hits screens
  • Lou Gehrig retires
  • NY Yankees win World Series
  • Bugs Bunny debutes
  • Batman debutes in comics


  • Mahatma Gandhi journeyed 300 miles to the Indian coast protesting because the British government banned Indians from makeing their own salt. He went to the beach and picked up a piece of natural sea salt in defiance of the law. He has been leading protests against Britian for over 10 years. All protests should be peaceful, he said to his supporters, but to be ready for the worst, even death.

    Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh in January 1930 discovered the planet Pluto. Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun but because of it awkward orbit, sometimes Neptune is the outer planet. Pluto is 4.6 billion miles from Earth.

    OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM
    On March 3rd, 1931 congress officially adopted "The Star Spangled Banner" as our national anthem. The world to the anthem were written by Francis Scott Key.


    The greatest inventor Thomas Alva Edison died on 18 October, 1931. He was always fasinated with science and chemistry. His first invention was the ticker tape, and also invented the gramophone, the electric light, the battery and motion pictures. He was granted over 1,000 patents for all his inventions.

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President of the United States on 8 November 1932. He was unable to walk due to being paralyzed by polio. He had promised America to end poverty, with new laws on wages and prices, government spending and on roads and public buildings.

    On May 21, 1932 Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly alone, nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean. She accomplished this feat in 16 hours leaving from Newfoundland and landing in Northern Ireland. Her airlpane, a Lockheed Vega, flew at an altitude of 19,000 feet, which is the record at this time.


    After two year, Bonnie and Clyde (in their 20's), were shot dead by police on 23 May 1934 when they drove into a police ambush. They were infamous for eluding the police while robbing banks, gas stations and restaurants in the Southwest and killed at least 12 people.



    Jessie Owens became in the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany. Jessie was a sprinter and broke 5 records in one day. He won four gold medals in 100 meters, 200 meters, long jump, and 4 x 100 relay. Hilter was not happy because he felt that Ayran race was superior and Jessie was a black man, which in Hitler's mind, belonged to a lesser breed. Hilter left the Olympics when Jessie Owens won.

    The Hindenburg exploded on 6 May, 1937 in Lakehurst, New Jersey, in the worst air disaster ever. The German airship was the first transatlantic airliner. It was 804 feet long and moved at 82 miles an hour. It was filled with hydrogen and had a library and lounge. The Hindeburg was trying to land in bad weather and an explosion occured. There were 34 passengers that perished in the blaze.

    Walt Disney on February 7th, 1938 released its first featured length cartoon movie "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". The dwarfs were a spectacular addition to the movie featuring Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey and Doc. Hi-ho, hi-ho, It's off to work we go has become one of the very popular songs from this movie. It took three years and two million drawings to create the movie and was received well across the world.

    An epic movie hit the screens in 1939 called "Gone with the Wind" starring Clark Gable and English actress, Vivien Leigh. The movie runs 3 hours, 43 minutes and was about the Civil War. The movie was also done in Technicolor wish gave it big sucess at the box office.









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