Timeline of the Twentieth Century: 1930-1939

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Gandhi's Salt March

Pluto Discovered

Stalin Begins Collectivizing Agriculture in the U.S.S.R.

Al Capone Imprisoned for Income Tax Evasion

Auguste Piccard Reaches Stratosphere

Christ Monument Built on Rio de Janeiro Hilltop

Empire State Building Completed

Scottsboro Boys Accused of Rape

U.S. Officially Gets National Anthem

Air Conditioning Invented

Amelia Earhart First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Atlantic

Lindbergh's Baby Kidnapped

Scientists Split the Atom

Zippo Lighters Introduced

Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany

Assassination Attempt on FDR

FDR Launches New Deal

First Nazi Concentration Camp Established

Loch Ness Monster First Spotted

Prohibition Ends in the U.S.

Wiley Post Flies Around the World in 8 1/2 Days

Bonnie and Clyde Killed by Police

Cheeseburger Created

The Dust Bowl

Mao Zedong Begins the Long March

Parker Brothers Sells the Game "Monopoly"

Alcoholics Anonymous Founded

Germany Issues the Anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws

John Maynard Keynes Suggests New Economic Theory

Social Security Enacted in U.S.

Carnegie Publishes How to Win Friends and Influence People

Hoover Dam Completed

King Edward VIII Abdicates

Nazi Olympics in Berlin

Spanish Civil War Begins

Amelia Earhart Vanishes

Golden Gate Bridge Opened

The Hindenberg Disaster

Japan Invades China

Broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" Causes Panic

Chamberlain Announces "Peace in Our Time"

"Extinct" Fish Found

Hitler Annexes Austria

The Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht)

First Commercial Flight Over the Atlantic

German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact Signed

Helicopter Invented

Refugees on the St. Louis Refused Entry Everywhere

World War II Begins

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