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1959 - Rock singers, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and Big
Bopper died in a plane crash.
1995 - Col. Eileen Collins became the first woman to
pilot the space shuttle when the Discovery blasted off.
1998 - Texas executed Karla Faye Tucker, the first woman
to be executed in the United States since 1984.
In 1930 …
President: Herbert C. Hoover
Vice President: Charles Curtis
Population: 123,076,741
Federal spending: $3.32 billion
Consumer Price Index: 16.7
Unemployment: 8.9%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
• Unemployment soars, prompting President Hoover to
appoint a Commission for Unemployment Relief.
• Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act is passed by Congress. The act
brings retaliatory tariff acts from foreign countries,
U.S. foreign trade suffers a sharp decline, and the
depression intensifies.
• N.Y. Supreme Court Judge Joseph Crater withdraws all
his money from the bank, sells his stock, and
disappears. His fate is never learned.
•Britain, U.S., Japan, France, and
Italy sign naval disarmament treaty.
•Nazis gain in German elections.
•Haile Selassie becomes emperor of Ethiopia.
•Crossley Inc. tabulates the first formal radio ratings
system.
•Jean Rosenthal, one of the greatest lighting designers
in theater history, pioneers the concept of stage
lighting.
• As head of the Motion Picture Producers and
Distributors of America, William Hays establishes a code
of decency that outlines what is acceptable in films.
• Grant Wood paints American Gothic. |
