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- Hoover urges congressional leaders to examine possible public works program
- New York City police raid Communist rally
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- Feb. 10: In Chicago, 186 indicted in huge rum-running plot; business valued at $50,000,000
- Feb 24: Hoover tells Congress to economize or face 40% tax hike
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- President Hoover says the worst effects of the Depression will be over within 90 days: "Prosperity is just around the corner"
- 513 individuals file as milionaires on their tax returns
- Republican Club votes for Dry Law repeal
- NY Police Commissioner gives employers black list of Communists
- Al Capone released from jail
- March 8: William Howard Taft dies
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- April 3: Telephone Service from the United States to South America is
available for the first time
- April 7: Hoover signs "Old Ironsides" legislation, appropriating
$300,000 for restoration efforts
- April 21: Ohio Fire kills 355 out of 4,300 convicts held in prison designed to hold 1500
- April 28: Troops drop bombs as prisoners revolt a week after the fire
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- May 24:Poll shows majority of Americans in favor of repeal of Prohibition
- Economists warn that Smoot-Hawley legislation will adversely affect international trade
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- June 1: Gangsters raid Chicago hotel, killing three in gang war
- June 13: Al Capone arrested on perjury charge
- June 17: Hoover signs Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill, placing the largest tariffs ever on American goods, especially significant for minerals, chemicals, textiles and farm goods
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- July 3: Veteran Administration Act signed combining all federal agencies dealing with benefits for former statesmen in the Veteran's Administration
- July 4: Detroit. Nation of Islam is founded
- July 27: U.S. Labor leaders move to ban all Soviet products
- July 29: Hoover opposes barring Soviet trade
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- Aug 1: NY Police battle Communists in Union Square Riot
- Aug 5: Douglas MacArthur named U.S. Army Chief of Staff
- Aug 16: U.S. allocates $121.9 million for drought relief
- Aug 23: Four Long Island clubs raided; 19 arrested for gambling
- Aug 28: New York Labor Union leaders demand legal beer to create jobs
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- Sept 9: U.S. State Department restricts immigration of foreign laborers to combat unemployment
- Sept 10: Franklin Roosevelt takes stand for Dry Law repeal
- Sept 19: New Jersey Gangsters raid dry agents in seized brewery; one killed
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- Oct 8: U.S. Navy scraps 49 ships, 4800 men under Naval Treaty
- Oct 17: Hoover establishes Committee for Unemployment Relief
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- Roosevelt re-elected Governor of NY; starts work on Presidential Campaign the next day
- Nov 4: Democrats win majority in the House in midterm elections
- Nov 30: Mother Jones, labor leader, dies at 100
- End of Nov: 6,000 apple sellers in NYC alone
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- Dec 1: 500 Communist protesters dispersed from the Capitol with tear gas
- Dec 9: Secretary of Labor Doak begins plans to address U.S. Labor void by deporting Mexican-Americans
- Dec 11: U.S. Bank goes under; 60 branches in New York and more than 1300 close nationwide by year's end
- Dec 31: Hoover urges Congress to provide up to $150 million for public works to create jobs. Emphasizes U.S. is better than rest of the world
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- January 6: The first diesel automobile trip is completed
- Lindbergh arrives in NY, setting cross-country flying record of 14.75 hrs
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- NYC starts installing traffic lights; uses yellow instead of amber light to signal drivers to slow down
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- Arizona: Scientists report discovery of ninth planet (Pluto) at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ
- First transcontinental glider flight begins; towed by a biplane on a 500-ft line
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- April 4: Congress votes $300 million for road construction
- April 11: New York Scientist predicts main will reach moon by 2050
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- May 11: Adler Planetarium, the first in the U.S., opened in Chicago
- In Arizona, a newly discovered planet is named Pluto
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- June 6: Frozen food (processed by Clarence Birdseye) hits commercial market for the first time
- June 15: Plans submitted for Rockefeller Center
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- July-August: Arkansas receives only 35% of rainfall from 1929
- July 1: Northland Transportation Co. extends bU.S. service across nation, changes name to Greyhound Company
- July 3: Auto plants reopen in Detroit, sending 150,000 back to work
- July 7: Construction begins on Boulder Dam
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- Aug 11: Drought has cut U.S. corn output 690 million bushels
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- Sept 1: Aviation milestone: first East-West crossing of the Atlantic
- Sept 1: Edison tests 1st U.S. electric passenger train between Hoboken and Montclair, NJ
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- Oct 10: TWA formed through merger of 3 airlines
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- Nov 13: Yale scientist estimates earth's age: 1.825 billion years
- Dec 12: Karl Landsteiner wins Nobel Prize for Medicine for identifying A, B, AB positive, and O blood types.
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- January 13: The first Mickey Mouse comic strip is published in the New York Mirror
- Feb. 5: Figure skater Sonja Henie performs in Madison Square Garden; wins world's amateur singles for the fourth time
- Feb. 13: John Wexley's play The Last Mile, an impassioned protest against capital punishment, opens in New York
- Greta Garbo's first talkie (Anna Christie) opens; she asks for a shot of whisky
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- The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 is adopted by the film industry; the Code affirms that films will not "lower the moral standards" of the viewing public
- March 16: WEAF in New York City carries first opera broadcast
directly from a stage in Europe
- April 28: The first three Nancy Drew mysteries are introduced to the public; the books are an immediate success
 Amos 'n' Andy: Cartoons
The Rasslin Match
The Lion Tamer
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Songs Released in
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- "Ain't Misbehavin"
by Fats Waller
- "I Got Rhythm" and "Embraceable You" by George Gershwin
- "On the Sunny Side of the Street" by Dorothy Fields
and Jimmy McHugh
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- May 12: Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge and Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken win Pulitzer Prizes
- May 28: The Chrysler Building officially opens to the public
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- June 12: Germany's Max Schmeling declared world heavyweight
champion after Jack Sharkey throws a low blow
- June 18: The National Park Service designates Appomattox Court House Monument, Virginia
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- July 12: Bobby Jones wins U.S. Open
- July 20: Consumption of cigarettes up by 1 billion in the last year
- Gallant Fox becomes the second triple-crown winner
- Grant Wood's sister and dentist serve as models for American Gothic
- Washington head dedicated at Mt. Rushmore by Gutzon Borglum
- July 31: The first broadcast of the radio show The Shadow
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- "Blondie" comic strip begins
- Department of Commerce reports that there are 30,000 miniature golf courses in operation, many of which earn a 300 percent return each month
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- As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
- Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
- The Bridge by Hart Crane
- John Maynard Keynes, Treatise on Money
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- Oct. 5: CBS begins live Sunday radio broadcasts of the NY Philharmonic with Toscanini as conductor
- Oct. 8: Athletics (then in Philly) take World Series, beating St. Louis 7-1 in 6th game
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- Nov. 5: All Quiet on the Western Front wins Academy Award for Outstanding Motion
Picture, 1929-30; George Arliss win for Best Actor in Disraeli; Norma Shearer win for Best Actress in The Divorce
- Nineteen killed in Oklahoma tornado
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- All Quiet on the Western Front directed by
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- The Big House
directed by George Hill
- Morocco
starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper
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- Little Caesar
starring Edward G. Robinson
- The Big Trail starring
John Wayne
- Moby Dick
starring John Barrymore
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- Dec 10: Sinclair Lewis wins Nobel Prize for Literature for Babbitt, becoming the first American to do so
- Dec 31:Adolphus Busch, heir to brewery fortune, kidnapped
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- Jan. 3: Second conference on war reparations begins
- Jan. 5: Stalin formally collectivizes Russian farms
and creates farm cooperatives
- World population: 2 billion
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- March 1: Thousands of Russians report fleeing to Poland to
avoid collective work  March 6: International Day for Struggle Against World-Wide Unemployment; inspires Peter Hopkins' Riot at Union Square (right)
- March 12: Gandhi and small group of followers begin the Salt March, a march to the sea where he intends to manufacture salt in defiance of the British government monopoly on salt production
- March 28: Turkish nationalists change Greek name of Constantinople to Istanbul
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- April 21: U.S., Britain, and Japan agree to limits on warships and battleships; France
and Italy refuse to sign; remained in effect until Dec. 31, 1936
- April 23: Internal unrest continues in China; Communists wait as nationalist government is challenged by rivals in North
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- May 4: Gandhi arrested by British; followers mob Bombay to protest four days later
- May 19: White women enfranchised in South Africa
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- June 26: Stalin defends purges of opponents, especially Trotskyites
- June 30: British promise independence to Iraq
- June 30: French troops evacuate Rhineland five years earlier than date set by the Versailles treaty
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- Aug 12: Persian troops, in collaboration with Turkey, launch
offensive against Kurdish rebels
- August 13: A giant meteorite lands deep in the Amazon rain forest; the explosion is the equivalent of 10 Hiroshima bombs
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- Sept. 2: In China, rebels form a Peking government under General Yen Hsi-Chan
- Sept. 14: Nazis become second-largest party in Germany over communists; Hitler claims he would scrap Versailles treaty if in charge
- Sept. 24: Soviet authorities execute 48 planning for revolt
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- Oct. 1: Irish delgates ask freedom from Britain
- Oct. 13: Nazi deputies scandalize Reichstag by attending in uniform as Hitlerites stone Jewish shops in Berlin
- Oct. 14: Fascist coup fails in Finland
- Oct. 20: British publish Passfield White Paper on Palestine, asking for halt in Jewish immigration to curb Arab unemployment
- Oct. 27: Mussolini demands revisions in Versailles treaty
- Oct. 30: Greece and Turkey sign treaty of friendship at Ankara
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- Nov. 2: Haile Selassie becomes emperor of Ethiopia
- Nov. 5: Prominant Italians seized for alleged plot to overthrow Mussolini
- Nov. 20: Indians ask for immediate dominion status at conference with British leaders in London
- Nov. 28: Geneva Economic Conference, called to discuss spreading depression, ends
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- Dec. 11: Germany bans All Quiet on the Western Front
- Dec. 12: Hanz Fisher wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for synthesizing chlorophyll and hemoglobin
- Dec. 20: Revolution begins in Spain
- Dec. 22: Soviets take control of all food supplies
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Amos 'n' Andy
Henry Luce publishes the first edition of