Cullman Senior Magazine Spring 2020 | Page 33

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. CULLMAN COUNTY SENIOR MAGAZINE Department stores began selling Tupperware in 1946. SPRING 2020 | 33