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1894 - The first kinetoscope parlor opened in New
York City.
1912 - Titanic hit the iceberg that would sink her
the next morning.
1969 - In a record breaking night at the Academy
Awards, a tie between Katherine Hepburn and Barbra
Streisand resulted in the two sharing the the Best
Actress Oscar and Hepburn broke the record as the only
actress to win three Best Actress Oscars.
2002 - Hugo Chávez returned as president of Venezuela
after being forced out of office two days previously.
2003 - Abu Abbas, the leader of the terrorist group
Palestine Liberation Front when the group hijacked the
liner Achille Lauro, was captured by U.S. forces in
Iraq.
In 1934 …
President: Franklin D Roosevelt
Vice President: John N. Garner
Population: 126,373,773
Federal spending: $6.54 billion
Consumer Price Index: 13.4
Unemployment: 22.0%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03
• Securities Exchange Act is passed, establishing the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
• Federal Communications Commission is established to
regulate communications.
• Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker ambushed by lawmen
in Louisiana. John Dillinger is shot outside Chicago
movie theater.
• Dust storms ruin about 100 million acres and damage
another 200 million acres of cropland in Kansas, Texas,
Colorado, and Oklahoma ("Dust Bowl").
• Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria is assassinated by
Nazis.
• Hitler becomes Führer when chancellorship and
presidency are united.
• U.S.S.R. admitted to League of Nations.
• Dionne sisters, first quintuplets to survive beyond
infancy, born in Canada. Background: Multiple Births
•Mao Zedong begins the Long March north with 100,000
soldiers.
If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed
him. Of course, no one would have remembered him
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