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April 22 – Ambrose Schindler, American football player, actor (died 2018) April 23 – Dorian Leigh, model (died 2008) April 25 – Ella Fitzgerald, African American jazz singer (died 1996) [17] April 26 – Virgil Trucks, baseball player (died 2013) April 28 – Robert Cornthwaite, character actor (died 2006) April 29 Celeste Holm, actress ...
American imports and exports plunged by more than two thirds, but since international trade was less than 5% of the American economy, the damage done was limited. The entire world economy, led by the United States, had fallen into a downward spiral that got worse and worse, and in 1931–32 began plunging downward even faster.
1917 – U.S. Virgin Islands purchased from Denmark; 1917 – Temperance movement leads to prohibition laws in 29 states; 1917–1919 – Silent Sentinels hold a vigil outside the White House gates in favor of women's suffrage, a nearly two–and–a–half year demonstration organized by Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party
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The Era of Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of Modern America, 1900–1912. survey by leading scholar; Pease, Otis, ed. The Progressive Years: The Spirit and Achievement of American Reform (1962), primary documents; Thelen, David P. "Social Tensions and the Origins of Progressivism," Journal of American History 56 (1969), 323–341 in JSTOR
Film director Sam Mendes' new war saga "1917" is up for three Golden Globes awards in Hollywood this weekend.