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July 13–14 – Peak of July 1936 heat wave: The U.S. states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana all set new state records for high temperature. At Mio in northern Michigan, it soars to 113 °F (45 °C). August 3 – African-American athlete Jesse Owens wins the 100-meter dash at the Berlin Olympics.
1938 - Thornton Wilder ’s play Our Town wins Pulitzer Prize. 1938 - The comic book superhero Superman debuts in Action Comics #1 (June 1938) 1938 – Orson Welles ' The War of the Worlds broadcast. 1939 – Hatch Act, aimed at corrupt political practices and prevented federal civil servants from campaigning.
November. November 4 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Neutrality Act of 1939 into law. [7] The arms embargo previously put into place by the Neutrality Act of 1937 is lifted and put any trade with nations engaged in war under cash-and-carry grounds. [9] American ships and planes are prohibited as part of the Act ...
The Neutrality Acts were a series of acts passed by the US Congress in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 in response to the growing threats and wars that led to World War II.They were spurred by the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism in the US following the US joining World War I, and they sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts.
US annual real GDP from 1910 to 1960, with the years of the Great Depression (1929–1939) highlighted Unemployment rate in the US 1910–60, with the years of the Great Depression (1929–39) highlighted; accurate data begins in 1939, represented by a blue line. The Depression caused major political changes in America.
The 1936 North American heat wave was one of the most severe heat waves in the modern history of North America. It took place in the middle of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl of the 1930s and caused more than 5,000 deaths. Many state and city record high temperatures set during the 1936 heat wave stood until the 2012 North American heat wave ...
October–December. December 5, 1933: Sloppy Joe's Bar opens in Key West, Florida (1986 photo) October 7 – The New York Giants (baseball) defeat the Washington Senators, 4 games to 1, to win their 4th World Series title. October 10 – A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed near Chesterton, Indiana, by a bomb.
Thomas Jefferson becomes the 3rd president of the United States on March 4, 1801. First Barbary War, 1801–1805. The Territory Northwest of the River Ohio is admitted to the Union as the State of Ohio (the 17th state) on March 1, 1803. The United States takes possession of the Louisiana Purchase, December 20, 1803.