Topic 6

• The First Diesel Road Trip that traveled from Indianapolis, Indiana to New York City, New York (Entire trip cost $7.63)


  JAN 6
• First Mickey Mouse comic strip is released


  JAN 13
• • Filipino Immigrants are able to keep their jobs because they work for less
  • Mobs of white men who attack Filipino farmworkers in Watsonville, California
  • Signs: Get Rid of All Filipinos or we will burn this town down


  JAN 19-23
• • Bacterol Products Company gets incorporated in New York City
  • Founders of this company are why we have anesthesia


  FEB 7
• • Elm Farm Ollie is the first cow to ride an airplane and get milked in an airplane
  • Clyde Tombaugh discovers the existence of Pluto, the ninth planet
  • Declassified in 2006


  FEB 18
• Clarence Birdseye's frozen food goes on sale in Springfield, Massachusetts


  MARCH 6
• Empire State Building begins being built


  MARCH 17
• Colonel Sanders opens the first KFC in North Corbin, Kentucky


  MARCH 20
• Jimmy Dewar invents the "Hostess Twinkie"


  APRIL 6
• Warner Brothers releases "Looney Tunes", the first cartoon to be made


  APRIL 19
• • Legislative Decree "London Naval Reduction Treaty" is signed and made an international law between 5 Nations (United States, Great Britain, Italy, France, Japan)
  • Would not go into full effect until January 1st, 1931


  APRIL 22
• First night game of baseball is played between the Independence Producers vs Muskogee Chiefs


  APRIL 28
• • National Park "Carlsbad Caverns National Park" established in New Mexico
  • Contains elevator that drops down 17 stories


  MAY 14
• • Congress establishes the Federal Bureau of Narcotics
  • Replacement for Narcotics division of Prohibition unit
  • Significant event because prohibition is about to end


  JUNE 14
• • Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act is passed into law
  • Raised tariffs and taxes on all goods (agricultural and industrial)


  JUNE 17
• • 3 young men (Thomas Shipp, Abram Smith, James Cameron) are arrested for murder and robbery
  • Marion, Indiana
  • ONLY Thomas and Abram were hung; James escaped
  • Last time lynching took place in Northern America

  AUGUST 7
• • Herbert Hoover asks Congress to pass a $150 million public works initiative
  • His idea was to lower unemployment and raise economic activity


  DECEMBER 2
• Albert Einstein and Edwin Hubble started research at California Institute of Technology


  JANUARY 3
• • Charlie Chaplin was considered a comedic genius
  • Did comedic silent drama films and wrote score to go with it
  • Premiered the comedic drama "City Lights" in the Los Angeles Theatre
  • Considered one of the best comedies of all time

  JANUARY 30
• • Ruins of an indigenous village around Canyon de Chelly
  • Deemed a National Monument (protected)


  FEBRUARY 14
• California begins construction of San-Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge (Golden Gate Bridge)


  FEBRUARY 20
• • Star Spangled Banner is made the official anthem of the United States
  • Written by Francis Scott Key


  MARCH 3
• Nevada legalizes gambling


  MARCH 19
• Empire State Building is completed and open for business


  MAY 1
• Unemployment in United States reached 12 million


  JANUARY 22
• • Son Charles Augustus Lindbergh, father of Colonel Charles Lindbergh, was kidnapped
  • Son is found dead on MAY 12
  • Federal Kidnapping Act is passed because of this
  • Also known as Lindbergh Law
  • Gave FBI jurisdiction to chase the suspects across state lines


  MARCH 1
• • The Highest-paved road, Trail Ridge Road, is completed and opened to the public
  • Located in Colorado and goes through Rocky Mountain National Park


  AUGUST 23
• • Longest sitting president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, will be elected
  • Beats incumbent by landslide
  • 472 electoral college compared to Hoover's 59
  • Served for 16 consecutive years
  • Reason we have 22nd amendment (president can only serve 2 terms)
  • Roosevelt had polio and dies because of condition at the end of his 16th year
  • Presidency begins the New Deal Era
  • Bunch of programs to kickstart and help the Great Depression
  • Sitting president of World War II


  NOVEMBER 8
• • Roosevelt would not be inaugurated into office for the first time
  • First inauguration speech contained phrase "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
  • Rallies the public and congress to deal with Great Depression together
  • 8 days later, he begins the Fireside Chats
  • He addresses the American Public by letting them know what is happening


  MARCH 4
• Congress has a 100 consecutive day sessions to discuss New Deal


  MARCH 9 - JUNE 16
• • First New Deal program, Civilian Conservation Corps
  • Will be authorized under the Federal Unemployment Relief Act
  • Provides work for 2.5 million men over 9 years
  • Helps construct most of the national parks in the United States

  MARCH 31
• • The start of the Dust Bowl
  • Begins in South Dakota
  • It was wind so strong that top soli was blown away and made farming difficult they could not grow anything


  NOVEMBER 11
• • The 21st Amendment will be passed in congress
  • Brought an end to prohibition


  DECEMBER 5
• • First Masters Golf Tournament is held at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia
  • Held by Bobbie Jones, the founder of the tournament
  • First winner was Horton Smith won with 4 under par (66 strokes)


  MARCH 22
• Bonnie & Clyde will be ambushed and killed on Rural Road in Louisiana


  MARCH 23
• • U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is going to be established
  • Under the Securities Exchange Act


  JUNE 6
• • Natchez Trace Parkway is approved for construction
  • Starts at Natchez, MS and ends in Nashville, TN


  JUNE 19
• Japan backs out of all Naval Reduction treaties


  DECEMBER 29
• • FDR signs a presidential proclamation that designates Fort Jefferson as a National Monument
  • Goes by Dry Tortugas


  JANUARY 4
• Baseball legend Babe Ruth retires


  JUNE 2