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Stock Market Crash
People wanted to sell stock all at the same time instead of buy them, this caused banks to run out of money to give or loan to small businesses which resulted to hundreds of Americans homeless -
Pluto Discovered
Clyde Tombaugh found the small planet from earlier discoveries from when Neptune was found. -
The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act is signed by President Herbert Hoover
It's effective rate hikes would slash world trade. -
The ruins of the ancient Indian villages around Canyon de Chelly are designated a national monument by President Herbert Hoover.
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The Star-Spangled Banner
by Francis Scott Key -
The state of Nevada legalizes gambling.
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Construction is completed on the Empire State Building in New York City
This gave hundreds of Americans jobs again. -
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is established to stimulate banking and business.
Unemployment in 1932 reached twelve million workers -
Carlsbad Caverns National Park installs and inaugurates the use of high speed elevators
The use of high speed elevators to descend visitors into the depths of the caves. These elevators travel seventy-five stories in one minute. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt Elected
During the Great Depression, Roosevelt was deturmined to create more jobs to find a releif from unemployment so then Americans didn't loose there homes or farms. -
First woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean
Amelia Earhart -
President Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for the first time
His speech with its hallmark phrase, "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself" begins to rally the public and Congress to deal with great depression issues. His subsequent Fireside Chats, that began eight days later, would continue his addresses with the American public. -
Gold Standard Dropped
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The 21st Amendment Ratified
The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment which out lawed and kind of alcohol in the United States. -
Babe Ruth Retires from Baseball
One of the few players that got into Major League Hall of Fame. -
Social Security Act Passed
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The First Artificial Heart
Called the perfusion pump; Created by scientists at Rockefeller University in New York. -
National Minimum Wage $0.25 an hour
The National Minimum Wage is enacted within the federal legislation known as the Fair Labor Standards Act. -
President Franklin D. Roosevelt asks the U.S. Congress for a defense budget hike.
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Begginging of WWII
