1930s Timeline

1930

• Gandhi's Salt March
• Pluto Discovered
• Stalin Begins Collectivizing Agriculture in the U.S.S.R.

1931

• 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

1932

• Air Conditioning Invented
• Amelia Earhart First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Atlantic
• Lindbergh's Baby Kidnapped
• Scientists Split the Atom
• Zippo Lighters Introduced

1933

• Adolf Hitler Appointed 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

1934

• Bonnie and Clyde Killed by Police
• Cheeseburger Created
• The Dust Bowl
• The Great Terror Begins in the Soviet Union
• Mao Zedong Begins the Long March
• Parker Brothers Sells the Game "Monopoly"

1935

• Alcoholics Anonymous Founded
• Germany Issues the Anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws
• John Maynard Keynes Suggests New Economic Theory
• Social Security Enacted in U.S.

1936

• Carnegie Publishes How to Win Friends and Influence People
• Hoover Dam Completed
• King Edward VIII Abdicates
• Nazi Olympics in Berlin
• Spanish Civil War Begins

1937

• Amelia Earhart Vanishes
• Golden Gate Bridge Opened
• The Hindenberg Disaster
• Japan Invades China

1938

• Broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" Causes Panic
• Chamberlain Announces "Peace in Our Time"
• Evian Conference About Jewish Refugees From Nazi Germany
• "Extinct" Fish Found (Coelacanth)
• Hitler Annexes Austria
• House Un-American Activities Committee (a.k.a. the Dies Committee) Is Established
• March of Dimes Founded
• The Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Is the First Full-Length Animated Cartoon
• Superman First Appears in Comic Books
• Volkswagen Beetle First Produced
• "Wrong-Way" Corrigan Heads to Dublin Instead of New York

1939

• 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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