| Aug. 21, 1929: Fighting
between the Soviets and Chinese breaks out in the Chinese province of Manchuria.
Sept. 26, 1929: U. S. President Calvin Coolidge
signs 1,000 autographs in 3.5 hours.
Oct. 24, 1929: The stock market crashes and is
forever known as The Black Thursday Crash.
Nov. 29, 1929: Commander Richard E. Byrd returns
to his homebase in Antartica, after completing the first aerial survey
of the South Pole.
Dec. 22, 1929: Soviet troops retreat from Manchuria
after truce between Russia and China.
Jan. 28, 1930: The U. S. celebrates (or protests)
the 10th anniversary of Prohibition.
Feb. 26, 1930: First traffic light installed in
New York City.
March 12, 1930: Mahatma Ghandi begins his famous
Salt March.
April 5, 1930: Ghandi makes salt to defy British
law.
May 24, 1930: New planet given the name Pluto.
June 3, 1930: New York City's population reported
to be 6.4 million.
July 26, 1930: Stalin gives speech which justifies
the purges of individuals from the Communist Party. |
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| Aug.
?, 1930: It is announced that Babe Ruth in now making more than President
Hoover.
Sept. 14, 1930: The Nazi
Party becomes the 2nd biggest party in Germany.
Oct. 8, 1930: The Philadelphia
Athletics win the World Series at home, beating St. Louis in the sixth
game, 7-1.
Oct. 23, 1930: President
Hoover forms a committee to combat the deepening depression.
Oct. 26, 1930: Vargas takes
power in Brazil after toppling the Luis government.
Nov. 5, 1930: An explosion
in an Ohio mine traps 160 men.
Nov. 20, 1930: British officials
discuss the nationalization of some of their colonies.
Nov. 30, 1930: Mary Harris
"Mother" Jones, the famous patron of women's rights, dies at the age of
100.
Dec. 31, 1930: The number
of jobless Americans reaches 4 million.
Jan. 20, 1931: Unemployment
in Europe at record numbers.
Feb. 1, 1931: "Dracula" starring
Bela Lugosi opens in theaters.
March 3, 1931: President
Hoover signs a bill making "The Star Spangled Banner" the nation's national
anthem.
April 11, 1931: An alleged
Communist industrial spy network is uncovered in Germany.
May 31, 1931: Pope Pius XI
declares that no Catholic can be fascist.
June 19, 1931: Three heads
of the Bank of the United States are found guilty of misappropriation of
funds.
July 2, 1931: Wiley Post
and Harold Gatty finished their round-the-world flight in 15 hours, 51
minutes. |
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| Aug.
8, 1931: The Goodyear Corporation produces the first American dirigible.
Sept. 30, 1931: 5000 unemployed
Brit's ransack London during riot.
Oct. 24, 1931: Al Capone
is sent to Alcatraz.
Nov. 7, 1931: Japanese forces
halt their offensive against China to avoid a potential conflict with Russia.
Dec. ?, 1931: Boris Karloff
becomes a star thanks to his performance in "Frankenstien."
Jan. 31, 1932: Japanese forces
take Shanghai and Manchuria.
Feb. 27, 1932: James Chadwick
of Britain, discovers the neutron.
March 2, 1932: Charles A.
Lindbergh's toddler son is kidnapped from his home.
April 10, 1932: Hitler's
Nazi Party gains 6% in German national election.
May 1, 1932: An atom is split
by British scientists, Dr. J. D. Cockroft and Dr. E. T. S. Walton.
June 29, 1932: Absolute monarchy
ends in Siam after coup by military leaders.
July 2, 1932: Franklin Delano
Roosevelt is nominated as the Democratic candidate for president. |
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| Aug.
14, 1932: 95,000 attend the closing ceremonies of the 1932 Summer Olympics
in Los Angeles.
Sept. 1, 1932: Pilot Jimmy
Doolittle is the first to fly over 300 mph.
Oct. 2, 1932: The New York
Yankees sweep the Chicago Cubs with a 13-6 victory in the fourth game.
Nov. 11, 1932: The Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier is dedicated in Washington D. C.
Dec. ?, 1932: Aldous Huxley's
"Brave New World" is released.
Jan. 30, 1933: Hitler is
named Chancellor of Germany.
Feb. 26, 1933: Ground is
broken for the Golden Gate Bridge.
March 20, 1933: The Nazi's
open the first concentration camp.
April 4, 1933: The Airship
Akron crashes at sea. 73 dead.
May 10, 1933: Nazi's burn
all banned books.
June 18, 1933: Hitler threatens
to take the children of all who do not follow the Nazi Party.
July 1, 1933: Amelia Earhart
flies from Los Angeles to Newark in 17 hours, 17 minutes. |
July 17, 1933: The voters
of District 9 pass bond issue, supplemented by a government grant,that
will allow the city to build a new high school building. |
| Aug.
23, 1933: Mahatma Ghadi is released from prison and weighs only 90
pounds.
Sept. 23, 1933: Austria to
set up concentration camps to intern Nazis.
Oct. 27, 1933: 20 are killed
in Jaffa after rioters protest the immigration of Jews into Palestine.
Nov. 17, 1933: The United
States recognizes the Communist government in Russia.
Dec. 5, 1933: Prohibition
ends.
Jan 28, 1934: John Dillinger,
the famous bank robber, and his six accomplices are apprehended.
Feb. 12, 1934: 129 people
are killed in Austria as the Dollfuss government tries to purge the country
of socialists.
March 3, 1934: John Dillinger
breaks out of an Indiana jail by using wooden pistols.
April 8, 1934: A riot breaks
out at a Nazi rally in New York City.
May 23, 1934: The famous
bank robbing duo of Bonnie and Clyde are shot to death by Texas Rangers.
June 30, 1934: Hitler orders
the deaths of several rebels who threatened his plans concerning German
storm troopers.
July 14, 1934: Hilter stops
paying the debts forced upon Germany for losing WW1. |
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| Aug.
19, 1934: 17 days after the death of German president, Paul von Hindenburg,
Hitler is named president of Germany.
Sept. 7, 1934: Senator Huey
"Kingfish" Long orders 2,000 troops into New Orleans in anticipation of
violence during the upcoming election.
Oct. 9, 1934: King Alexander
of Yugoslavia is assassinated during his visit to France.
Nov. 28, 1934: Gangster George
"Babyface" Nelson is found died in a ditch outside Chicago.
Dec. 1, 1934: Stalin aide,
Sergei Kirov, is murdered by Leonis Nikolaev. Stalin is using the incident
as an excuse to purge more rivals of the Communist Party from Russia.
Jan. 17, 1935: Sergei Kirov's
killers are convicted and get a total of 137 years in prison.
Feb. 13, 1935: Bruno Hauptmann
is convicted of the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby. He was
immediately executed after the trial.
March 11, 1935: German air
force becomes offical part of the German government.
April 11, 1935: Dust storms
cover nearly half the United States during the famous "Dust Bowl."
May 19, 1935: Col. T. E.
Lawrence, AKA "Lawrence of Arabia," dies 17 days after a terrible motorcycle
accident.
June 20, 1935: Alex Carrel
along with famous flier Charles A. Lindbergh, announce the creation of
new life support system.
July 26, 1935: A group of
Communists raid the oceanliner, Bremen, while it is docked in New York
and throw all Nazi symbols and parafinalia into the Hudson River. |
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| Aug.
14, 1935: Social Security is enacted.
Sept. 10, 1935: Senator Huey
"Kingfish" Long is assasinated in the Louisianna Capitol Building.
Oct. 28, 1935: Mussolini
orders his army to invade Ethiopia.
Nov. 2, 1935: 28 Nazi spies
are arrested in Prague, Czecheslovakia.
Dec. 23, 1935: The Lindbergh
family leaves the U. S. after threats of more kidnappings.
Jan. 28, 1936: King George
V dies at the age of 70. His successor, Edward VIII, takes the throne of
England.
Feb. 26, 1936: First Volkswagon
Beetle makes its appearance in Germany.
March 7, 1936: Nazi forces
enter the demiliterized zone known as the Rhineland. This act violates
the Treaty of Versailles.
April 30, 1936: Ethiopia
surrenders to Italian forces.
May 4, 1936: In a New Jersey
labratory, radioactivity is used to cure cancer in mice.
June 17, 1936: Heinrich Himmler
is named head of the Riech police (SS).
July 3, 1936: A Czech Jew
shot himself at a League of Nations meeting to protest the treatment of
Jews in Germany. |
Sept. 12, 1935: The Corvallis
City Council has granted CHS permission to use the block bound by 15th,
16th, Polk, and Taylor Street to be used as the football practice field.
There is one stipulation though, the players must return the field in the
same condition in which they found it.
*Sept. 20,
1935: R. M. Adams arrives at CHS as the new agriculture teacher.
*Sept. 26,
1935: Many students fail to register for the fall semester at CHS.
Students must fill out a registration card, obtain a locker, and take a
physical examination. The fee for physical education courses is 75 cents,
and must be paid as well.
Jan. ?, 1936: The Corvallis
High School Varsity Basketball team wins the Basketball State Championship
of Oregon. The team won by beating Franklin High School, 34-20.
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| Aug.
31, 1936: Civil war breaks out in Spain.
Sept. 1, 1936: Hitler opens
the Olympic Games in Berlin.
Oct. 10, 1936: Germany threatens
to counter any Russian aid to Spain's civil war.
Nov. 3, 1936: FDR is named
president for second term.
Dec. 30, 1936: Seven GM plants
shut down due to strikes.
Jan. 13, 1937: The U. S.
government bans Americans from serving in the Spanish Civil War.
Feb. 16, 1937: The Du Pont
Company patents nylon.
March 18, 1937: A fire in
a Texas school kills 500 children.
April ?, 1937: The Golden
Gate Bridge becomes the longest bridge in the world.
May 6, 1937: The dirigible
Hindenburg explodes over Lakehurst, New Jersey.
June 12, 1937: Stalin orders
the death of 8 of his high level generals.
July 18, 1937: Amelia Earhart
disappears somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. |
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| Aug.
8, 1937: 115 people are siezed in Berlin after an anti-Nazi rally.
Sept. 5, 1937: In a Nazi
show of power, 600,000 men parade through Nerumberg.
Oct. 10, 1937: Sir Oswald
Mosley, leader of the British Facist Party lead a rally in Liverpool and
was stoned by Communist demonstaters for his efforts.
Nov. 29, 1937: Nazi judges
force parents to give up children because of the parent's decision to not
teach their children Nazi ideology.
Dec. 22, 1937: The Japanese
apologize for the mistaken sinkings of three U.S. vessels in China.
Jan. 1, 1938: U.S. cencus
shows that nearly 8 million citizens are jobless.
Feb. 4, 1938: Hitler promotes
himself to the possision of Commander of the German armed forces.
March 14, 1938: Hitler's
forces enter Austria and are hailed as heroes.
April 19, 1938: General Fracisco
Franco calls for the surrender of all loyalist forces and declares the
Spanish Civil War over.
May 30, 1938: All Czechs
between the age of six and sixty are sent by train to do defense work on
the Czech/German border.
June 15, 1938: Major League
pitcher Johnny Vander Meer pitches his second no-hitter in a row.
July 1, 1938: Italy tries
to slow the publishing of books by Jews. |
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| Aug. 27, 1938: The
British government warns the Nazis that if they invade Czechoslavacia,
it will mean world war.
Sept. 27, 1938: The H. M. S. Queen Elizabeth embarks
on her maiden voyage.
Oct. 30, 1938: Orson Welles fools the American
public with his radio skit, "War of the Worlds."
Nov. 9, 1938: Jewish bussinesses and residences
are vandalized during "Crystal Night."
Dec. ?, 1938: The comic book hero "Spiderman" makes
his debut.
Jan. 26, 1939: General Franco takes the city of
Barcelona and control of Spain.
Feb. 22, 1939: 22,000 American Nazis hold a rally
in Madison Square Garden.
March 15, 1939: Nazi forces over run Czech defenses
and take Prague.
April 30, 1939: The New York Worlds Fair opening
cerimonies are attended by 600,000.
May 25, 1939: The U.S. submarine Squalus sinks
during a training cruise. 26 men died in the incident.
June 21, 1939: Illness forces Lou Gehrig to quit
baseball.
July 6, 1939: Nazis force Jews to join the Union
of Jews. |
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