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April 1 – The North American NA-16, prototype of the North American T-6 Texan or Harvard flying trainer, flies for the first time. [ 4 ] April 14 – Dust Bowl : The great Black Sunday dust storm (made famous by Woody Guthrie in his "dust bowl ballads") hits hardest in eastern New Mexico and Colorado, and western Oklahoma.
1942 – Japanese American internment, German American Internment, and Italian American Internment begin, per executive order by President Roosevelt; the order also authorizes the seizure of their property. 1942–1945 – Automobile production in the United States for private consumers halted. 1942 – Casablanca released
The presidency of William Henry Harrison, who died 31 days after taking office in 1841, was the shortest in American history. [9] Franklin D. Roosevelt served the longest, over twelve years, before dying early in his fourth term in 1945. He is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. [10]
The 13 British North American provinces of Virginia, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Delaware, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia united as the United States of America declare their independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain on ...
This is a list of automobiles produced for the general public in the North American market. They are listed in chronological order from when each model began its model year. If a model did not have continuous production, it is listed again on the model year production resumed. Concept cars and submodels are not listed unless they are themselves ...
All-American Comics #1 Batman (Bruce Wayne) 1939 (May) DC Bob Kane, Bill Finger: Detective Comics #27 Wonder Man (Fox Publications) 1939 (May) Fox Publications: Will Eisner: Wonder Comics #1 Ma Hunkel and Sisty (later to become Red Tornado and one of her two sidekicks, the Cyclone Kids, respectively) 1939 (June) DC Sheldon Mayer: All-American ...
1935 (United States) The National Labor Relations Act, also known as the Wagner Act, was passed. [36] It clearly established the right of all workers to organize and to elect their representative for collective bargaining purposes. 1935 (United States) Negro Labor Committee founded. [36] 1935 (United States) United Auto Workers founded. [36]
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...