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1949 - Laurence Olivier's Hamlet became the first
British film to win an Oscar.
1958 - Rock 'n' roll star Elvis Presley joined the U.S.
army for two years.
1989 - In one of worst oil spills in recent history, the
tanker, Exxon Valdez, ran aground and released 240,000
barrels of oil into Prince William Sound.
1999 - NATO begins launching air strikes in an attempt
to force Serbia to cease hostilities against ethnic
Albanians in Kosovo.
2002 - Halle Berry became the first African-American
actress to win a best actress Oscar and Denzel
Washington became the second African-American actor to
get the best actor award.
2004 - The notorious Bird family's more than
half-century stronghold on the nation of Antigua and
Barbuda came to an end when Baldwin Spencer won the post
of prime minister in the general election.
In 1933
President: Franklin D Roosevelt
Vice President: John N. Garner
Population: 125,578,763
Federal spending: $4.60 billion
Consumer Price Index: 13
Unemployment: 25.2%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03
Giuseppe Zangara executed for attempted
assassination of President-elect Roosevelt in which
Chicago Mayor Cermak is fatally shot. Background:
Assassinations and Attempts in U.S. Since 1865
Roosevelt inaugurated (the only thing we have to
fear is fear itself); launches New Deal.
Prohibition repealed.
Glass-Steagall Act bans banks from dealing in
stocks and bonds.
Reichstag fire in Berlin; Nazi terror begins
(Feb. 27).
Hitler becomes German chancellor (Jan. 30).
Germany and Japan withdraw from League of
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