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The Tulsa Race Riot, called "the single worst incident of racial violence in American history
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The Walt Disney Company is founded
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Charles Lindbergh completes the first transatlantic nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris
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The first film with synchronized sound, The Jazz Singer, premieres
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The Great Depression
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President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act
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Charges of rape against the Scottsboro Boys are dropped
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The U.S. Declares neutrality in World War II
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The U.S. embargoes all scrap metal shipments to Japan