Jesse Owens wins four
gold medals during
the 1936 Summer
Olympics.
Ty Cobb, Walter
Johnson, Christy
Matthewson, Babe
Ruth, and Honus
Wagner become the
first inductees into the
National Baseball Hall
of Fame in 1936.
William Faulkner publishes
The Sound and the Fury in
1929.
The Mickey Mouse
comic strip debuts
in the Jan. 13,
1930, edition
of the New York
Mirror.
On Oct. 17, 1931, Chicago gangster
Al Capone was convicted of income
tax evasion and later sentenced to
11 years in federal prison.
Democrat Franklin
D. Roosevelt
defeats incumbent
Republican Herbert
Hoover in the 1932
election.
Superman debuts in
Action Comics #1 in
June 1938.
Gone with the Wind
wins the Academy
Award for Best
Picture in 1939.
Marvel Comics
introduces
superhero Captain
America in March
1941.
The German airship
Hindenburg is
destroyed while
attempting to land at
the Lakehurst Naval
Air Station on May 6,
1937.
American aviation
pioneer Amelia
Earhart disappears
over the Pacific Ocean
while attempting to
circumnavigate the
globe, July 2, 1937.
The Boulder Dam
(today known as”
Hoover Dam”) is
completed 2 years
ahead of schedule
on March 1,
1936.
After approximately 14 years, carving
at Mount Rushmore concludes in
October 1941.
Diarist Anne Frank and her family go into
hiding in the ‘Achterhuis’ on July 6, 1942
in Amsterdam.
Band leader
Alton Glenn Miller
disappears while
enroute to Paris,
France, Dec. 15,
1944.
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Department
stores began
selling
Tupperware in
1946.
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