Nov 13 The first modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, MN

Nov 07 Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports

Nov 11 "Great Black Blizzard",the first great dust storm of the depression arrives on the Great Plains

Nov 29 First state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania)

Nov 26 The birth of Robert Goulet, American actor

Nov 20 Navy crew (LCDR Thomas G. W. Settle, USN, and MAJ Chester I. Fordney, USMC) sets a world altitude record in balloon (62,237 ft.) in flight into stratosphere.

Nov 08 President Roosevelt creates the Civil Works Administration to find work for 4 million unemployed Americans.

Nov 21 US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service

Sep 14 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire

Sep 04 The first airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 kph), JR Wendell, Glenview, Il

Sep 01 H.G Wells publishes 'The Shape of the Things to Come'

Jun 05 US goes off gold standard

Jun 15 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1278 Kenya & #1279 Uganda

Jun 02 WNJ-AM in Newark NJ goes off the air

Jun 01 Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago

Jun 05 The United States goes off the gold standard.

Jun 06 The first drive-in theatre opens (Camden NJ) (where are they now?)

Jun 13 Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized

Jun 16 US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created

Jun 16 National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down)

Jun 13 First sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady NY)

Jun 30 US Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise Id &Salt Lake City Utah closes

Jun 06 US Employment Service created

Jun 21 The first Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans

Dec 01 Hitler declares legal unity of German state and Nazi party.

Dec 04 FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration

Dec 21 Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony

Dec 26 US forswears armed intervention in the Western Hemisphere

Dec 08 Flip (Clerow) Wilson Emmy Award-winning comedy writer was born

Dec 05 18th Amendment (Prohibition) repealed

Dec 26 The Nissan Motor Company was organized in Tokyo under the name Dat Jidosha Seizo Co

Dec 24 Paris express train derails and kills 160, injures 300 (France) 1936 first radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, Ca

Dec 19 Electric Home and Farm Authority Inc, authorized

Dec 21 Dried human blood serum first prepared, University of Pennsylvania

Dec 08 Secretary of the Navy establishes Fleet Marine Force, integrating a ready-to-deploy Marine force with own aircraft into Fleet organization.

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