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As investors traded some 16 billion shares on the New York Stock Exchange in one day, Black Tuesday hit Wall Street. Billions and billions of dollars were lost, resulting in the deepest, longest, and darkest economic downturn in the history of America.
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William Howard Taft, former president, was US Chief Justice for about nine years after his presidency. Unfortunately, Taft had to resign from that positon due to health reasons.
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Today was a big deal. Hostess Twinkies were invented by bakery executive, James Dewar.
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On this day, just two days before his death, Edison entered his last patent application. He was a man who spent his whole life interested in electricity, so the patent was of a component of an electroplating process.
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A teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth in an exhibition game in Chattanooga, Tennesse!
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The famous gangster, Al "Scarface" Capone, was sent to what was known as one of the toughest prisons in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Probably the most common game that every American knows was invented on this date... Monopoly!
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the first US president to travel through Panama Canal
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Jesse Owens, an OIympic athlete in track and field, sets the long jump record at 26' 8.5.
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The Hoover Dam was complete on this date!
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Margaret Mitchell wins the Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind".
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Boxer, Henry Armstrong, wins his 3rd concurrent boxing championship.
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The wonderful "Wizard of Oz", the first movie in color, comes out to the public.
