1930
Veterans Administration is formed
American Lutheran Church formed
Pluto is discovered
1st analog computer developed
United Airlines hires
Philadelphia Athletics win series
Comic strip Blondie debutes
US Population 122,775,046
Greyhound Bus Company formed
Selassie Crowned Emperor
1931
Empire State Building opens
Scrabble hits markets
Al Capone imprisoned
Spain becomes a republic
US get National Anthem
Neveda legalized gambling
Thomas Edison dies
Fiberglass is introduced
Alka-Seltzer hits markets
Nylon is invented
St. Louis Cardinals win series
Comic Strip Dick Tracy debutes
1932
Franklin Roosevelt President
John Garner Vice President
Depression hits World hard
14 million out of work
Farm prices cut in half
44% of US Banks Fail
Earhart hold record
Von Hindenburg German President
Lindbergh baby kidnapped
Zippo lighters are introduced
Skippy peanut butter debutes
Three Musketeers Bar at stores
Revlon is founded
Radio City Music Hall opens
NY host Winter Olymics
NY Yankees win World Series
France wins Davis Cup
1933
21st Amendment repeals Prohibition
NRA, PWA, NIRA & CCC enacted
Emergency Banking take effect
Dust Bowl debutes
Armstrong invents FM
Ritz Crackers are introduced
Vitamin D milk hits markets
Newsweek begin publication
Roosevelt starts fireside chats
The Lone Ranger debutes
Chicago Bears are NFL Champs
NY Giants wins World Series
Albert Einstein visits US
Hitler becomes Chancellor
Germany leave League of Nations
1934
Donald Duck arrives at Disney
Monopoly is the craze
Bonnie & Clyde are killed
John Dillinger killed
Dollfussof Austria murdered
726 carat diamond found
Cardenas President of Mexico
Liberty League founded
Llijah Muhammad becomes leader
Joseph P. Kenndey heads SEC
Laundromat is introduced
St. Louis Cardinals win series
Italy wins World Cup
1935
Shirley Temple wins Oscar
Electric Guitar is produced
Social Security Act established
Campbell set land speed record
Nazi laws remove Jewish rights
Alcoholics Anonymous is founded
Uranium 235 is discovered
Fibber MaGee & Molly debute
Detroit Tigers win World Series
Berwanger wins 1st Heisman Trophy
Chain Letter is the craze
1936
Franklin Roosevelt President
John Garner Vice President
35mm film introduced
Baseball Hall of Fame opens
Owens wins 4 Gold Medals
NY Yankees win World Series
Boulder Dam is completed
Pierced Ears are the fad
Henie wins 3rd Gold medal
Volkswagen is introduced
Blum wins election in France
Vitamin pills hit markets
Owens wins 4 Gold Medals
Germany defies treaty
German train sets speed record
1937
The Hindenberg explodes
Amelia Earhart disappears
Shopping carts hit stores
Spam goes to market
Cellophane Tape introduced
Automatic Transmission debutes
Howard Johnson are founded
NY Yankees win the World Series
Golden Gate Bridge dedicated
Nat'l Basketball League founded
Japan invades China
George VI crowned in England
1938
Disney's Snow White debutes
The March of Dimes founded
Teflon is discovered
Nylon Toothbrushes hit market
NY Yankees win World Series
Queen Elizabeth ship launched
Spitfire Plane in RAF
Ballpoint Pen introduced
Superman comic debutes
"War of the World" sets panic
1939
Germany invades Poland
Sikorsky builds helicoper
Gone With the Wind debutes
Pan Am goes International
DDT introduced for animals
Chile earthquake kills 30,000
Spanish Civil War ends
France ends public excutions
Uranium atom split
Wizard of Oz hits screens
Lou Gehrig retires
NY Yankees win World Series
Bugs Bunny debutes
Batman debutes in comics
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 Mahatma Gandhi journeyed 300 miles to the Indian coast protesting because the British government banned Indians from makeing their own salt. He went to the beach and picked up a piece of natural sea salt in defiance of the law. He has been leading protests against Britian for over 10 years. All protests should be peaceful, he said to his supporters, but to be ready for the worst, even death.
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 Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh in January 1930 discovered the planet Pluto. Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun but because of it awkward orbit, sometimes Neptune is the outer planet. Pluto is 4.6 billion miles from Earth.
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 OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM
On March 3rd, 1931 congress officially adopted "The Star Spangled Banner" as our national anthem. The world to the anthem were written by Francis Scott Key.
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 The greatest inventor Thomas Alva Edison died on 18 October, 1931. He was always fasinated with science and chemistry. His first invention was the ticker tape, and also invented the gramophone, the electric light, the battery and motion pictures. He was granted over 1,000 patents for all his inventions.
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 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President of the United States on 8 November 1932. He was unable to walk due to being paralyzed by polio. He had promised America to end poverty, with new laws on wages and prices, government spending and on roads and public buildings.
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 On May 21, 1932 Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly alone, nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean. She accomplished this feat in 16 hours leaving from Newfoundland and landing in Northern Ireland. Her airlpane, a Lockheed Vega, flew at an altitude of 19,000 feet, which is the record at this time.
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After two year, Bonnie and Clyde (in their 20's), were shot dead by police on 23 May 1934 when they drove into a police ambush. They were infamous for eluding the police while robbing banks, gas stations and restaurants in the Southwest and killed at least 12 people.
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 Jessie Owens became in the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany. Jessie was a sprinter and broke 5 records in one day. He won four gold medals in 100 meters, 200 meters, long jump, and 4 x 100 relay. Hilter was not happy because he felt that Ayran race was superior and Jessie was a black man, which in Hitler's mind, belonged to a lesser breed. Hilter left the Olympics when Jessie Owens won.
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 The Hindenburg exploded on 6 May, 1937 in Lakehurst, New Jersey, in the worst air disaster ever. The German airship was the first transatlantic airliner. It was 804 feet long and moved at 82 miles an hour. It was filled with hydrogen and had a library and lounge. The Hindeburg was trying to land in bad weather and an explosion occured. There were 34 passengers that perished in the blaze.
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 Walt Disney on February 7th, 1938 released its first featured length cartoon movie "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". The dwarfs were a spectacular addition to the movie featuring Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey and Doc. Hi-ho, hi-ho, It's off to work we go has become one of the very popular songs from this movie. It took three years and two million drawings to create the movie and was received well across the world.
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An epic movie hit the screens in 1939 called "Gone with the Wind" starring Clark Gable and English actress, Vivien Leigh. The movie runs 3 hours, 43 minutes and was about the Civil War. The movie was also done in Technicolor wish gave it big sucess at the box office.
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