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==Events==
* [[January 3]] - [[Japan]]ese troops occupy [[Shanghai]]
* Worst year of the [[Great Depression]]▼
* The [[Toll House cookie|chocolate chip cookie]] is invented by [[Ruth Wakefield]]. ▼
* The [[United States Federal Government]] ends [[Prohibition]] and outlaws [[marijuana]].▼
*[[January 5]] - Construction of the [[Golden Gate Bridge]] begins in [[San Francisco Bay]].
* [[January 15]] - Political violence has caused almost 100 deaths in Spain
* [[January 17]] - US Congress votes favorable for [[Philippines]] independence, against the view of president Hoover
* [[January 30]] - [[Edouard Daladier]] forms a government in [[France]]
*[[January 30]] - [[Adolf Hitler]] appointed [[Chancellor of Germany]] by [[President of Germany|President]] [[Paul von Hindenburg]].
*[[January 30]] - The first of 2,956 episodes of ''[[The Lone Ranger]]'' airs on the [[radio]] for the first time.
*[[February 5]] - [[Prohibition]] ends in the United States — 1.5 million barrels (176,000 m³) of [[beer]] were drunk that day.
*[[February 6]] - The [[United States Constitution/Amendment Twenty|20th Amendment to the United States Constitution]] goes into effect.
*[[February 10]] - The [[New York City]]-based [[Postal Telegraph Company]] introduces the first [[singing telegram]].
*[[February 15]] - In [[Miami, Florida]]
*[[February 17]] - The [[magazine]] ''[[Newsweek]]'' is published for the first time.
*[[February 17]] - The [[Blaine Act]] ends [[Prohibition]] in the [[United States]].
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* [[February 27]] - [[Germany]]'s parliament building in [[Berlin]], the [[Reichstag (building)|Reichstag]], is set on fire (see: [[Reichstag fire]]).
* [[March 1]] - [[Kyriakos Varvaressos]] becomes Deputy Governor to the [[Bank of Greece]]
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* [[March 4]] - [[American President]] [[Herbert Clark Hoover]] is succeeded by [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], who in reference to the [[Great Depression]], gives his "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself" inauguration speech.
* [[March 4]] [[Frances Perkins]] becomes [[United States Secretary of Labor]], first female member of the [[United States Cabinet]].
* [[March 5]] - [[Great Depression]]: [[President of the United States|President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] declares a "bank holiday", closing all [[United States]] banks and freezing all financial transactions (the 'holiday' ended on [[March 13]]).
* [[March 5]] - in German elections, [[National Socialism|National Socialists]] gain 43.9% of the votes
* [[March 9]] - Great Depression: The [[United States Congress]] begins its first 100 days of enacting [[New Deal]] legislation.
* [[March 10]] - [[Earthquake]] in [[Long Beach, California]] kills
* [[March 12]] - [[Great Depression]]: [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] addresses the nation for the first time as [[President of the United States]]. This was also the first of his "[[Fireside Chats]]".
* [[March 20]] - [[Dachau]], the first [[Nazi]] [[concentration camp]], is completed
* [[March 23]] - The ''[[Reichstag (institution)|Reichstag]]'' passes the [[Enabling Act]], giving [[Adolf Hitler]] dictatorial powers over [[Germany]].
* [[March 27]] - Japan leaves the [[League of Nations]]
* [[March 31]] - The [[Civilian Conservation Corps]] is established with the mission to relieve rampant unemployment.
* [[April 1]] -
* [[April 1]] - [[Gestapo]] begins operations
* [[April 3]] - Anti-monarchist rebellion in [[Siam]]
* [[April 4]] - US [[airship]] ''Akron'' crashes near [[New York]] - 74 dead
* [[April 5]] - [[International court]] in the [[Hague]] decides that [[Greenland]] belongs to [[Denmark]] and condemns Norwegian landings on eastern Greenland. [[Norway]] submits to the decision
* [[April 11]] - Aviator [[William Lancaster]] takes off in England in an attempt to make a speed record to Cape. He vanishes (body is found [[1962]] in Sahara)
* [[April 23]] - Japanese crown prince [[Akihito]] born
* [[April 27]] - [[Stahlhem]] organizations joins the [[Nazi]] party
* [[May]] - [[Karl Jansky]] announces the detection of radio waves from the centre of the galaxy.
* [[May 2]] - First modern sighting of the [[Loch Ness Monster]].
* [[May 8]] -
* [[May 10]] - [[Censorship]]: In [[Germany]], the [[Nazis]] stage massive public [[book burning]]s.
* [[May 10]] - [[Paraguay]] declares war on [[Bolivia]]
* [[May 17]] - [[Vidkun Quisling]] and [[Johan Bernhard Hjort]] form [[Nasjonal Samling]] - the national-socialist party of [[Norway]]. * [[May 18]] - [[New Deal]]: President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] signs an act creating the [[Tennessee Valley Authority]].
* [[May 27]] - New Deal: The [[Federal Securities Act]] is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the [[Federal Trade Commission]].
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* [[June 5]] - The [[United States Congress]] abrogates the [[United States]]' use of the [[gold standard]] by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in [[gold]].
* [[June 21]] - All non-[[Nazi]] parties forbidden in Germany
* [[July 4]] - [[Mohandas Gandhi]] sentenced to prison
* [[July 14]] - In [[Germany]], all [[political party | political parties]] are outlawed except the [[Nazi Party]].
* [[July 20]] - 500.000 people demonstrate against anti-Semitism in [[Hyde Park, London]]
* [[July 22]] - [[Wiley Post]] becomes first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes. * [[August 14]] - Loggers cause a [[forest fire]] in the [[Coast Range]] of [[Oregon]], later known as the first forest fire of the [[Tillamook Burn]]. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (971 km²).
* [[August 30]] - Assassination of [[Theodore Lessing]] in [[Marienbad]], [[Czechoslovakia]]
* [[August 30]] - [[Air France]] begins operations with 250 planes
* [[September 3]] - [[Alejandro Leroux]] forms a new government in Spain
* [[September 12]] - [[Leó Szilárd]], waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in [[Bloomsbury, London, England|Bloomsbury]], conceives the idea of the [[nuclear chain reaction]].
* [[September 26]] - [[Tornado]] destroys the town of [[Tampico]] in [[Mexico]]
* [[October 12]] - The [[United States Army]] Disciplinary Barracks on [[Alcatraz]], is acquired by the [[United States Department of Justice]] who plans to incorporate the island into its [[United States Bureau of Prisons|Bureau of Prisons]] as a federal [[penitentiary]]. ▼
* [[October 1]] - Failed assassination attempt against [[Engelbert Dolfuss]] only injures his seriously
* [[November 8]] - [[Great Depression]]: [[New Deal]] - US President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] unveils the [[Civil Works Administration]], an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed. ▼
▲* [[October 12]] - The [[United States Army]] Disciplinary Barracks on [[Alcatraz]], is acquired by the [[United States Department of Justice]] who plans to incorporate the island into its [[United States Bureau of Prisons|Bureau of Prisons]] as a federal [[penitentiary]].
* [[October 16]] - Germany announces intention to leave the [[League of Nations]] - officially [[October 19]]
* [[November 4]] - In [[Paris]], burglar tries to rob an antique store wearing an armor suit but is captured
▲* [[November 8]] - [[Great Depression]]: [[New Deal]] - US President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] unveils the [[Civil Works Administration]], an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed.
* [[November 11]] - [[Dust Bowl]]: In [[South Dakota]], a very strong [[dust storm]] strips [[topsoil]] from desiccated farmlands (this is just one of a series of disastrous dust storms that year).
* [[November 16]] - The [[United States]] and the [[Soviet Union]] establish formal [[diplomacy|diplomatic relations]].
* [[November 16]] - President of [[Brazil]] [[Getulio Vargas]] names himself dictator
* [[December 24]] - Train crash in [[Lagny]], [[France]] - over 200 dead
* [[December 26]] - The [[Nissan]] Motor Company was organized in [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]].
* [[December 26]] - [[Frequency modulation|FM radio]] is patented.
* [[December 29]] - Members of the [[Iron Guard]] assassinate [[Ion Gheorghe Duca]], president of [[Romania]]
* [[British Interplanetary Society]] founded
▲* Worst year of the [[Great Depression]]
▲* The [[Toll House cookie|chocolate chip cookie]] is invented by [[Ruth Wakefield]].
▲* The [[United States Federal Government]] ends [[Prohibition]] and outlaws [[marijuana]].
==Year in topic==
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