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1930 - Hawley-Smoot Tariff; 1930 - Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto; 1930 - Sinclair Lewis is the first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature; 1931 – Empire State Building opens in New York. 1931 – Japanese invasion of Manchuria, start of World War II in the Pacific. 1931 – The Whitney Museum of American Art opens to the public in New ...
The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s (2000) global political history; 816pp excerpt; Cornelissen, Christoph, and Arndt Weinrich, eds. Writing the Great War – The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present (2020) free download; full coverage for major countries. Gardiner, Juliet, The Thirties: An Intimate History. London ...
The psychological damage inflicted by the stupifying bombardments of World War I was called shell shock, a term that aptly described the feeling of the post-war world.This program illustrates America's reluctant emergence as a world power and analyzes the impact of the wholesale sense of loss – of life, of husbands and fathers, and of sacred ideals such as honor, patriotism, and glory ...
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.
Anthony Bourdain – American chef and writer. H.W. Brands – Historian and Professor of History at University of Texas at Austin. Tom Brokaw – Journalist and former anchor of NBC Nightly News. Albert Camarillo – History professor at Stanford University. Margaret Cho – Comedian, actress, and activist.
1930–1931 – Crazy Horse’s lifelong friend, He Dog, is interviewed by journalist Eleanor Hinman and Nebraska writer Mari Sandoz. A record drought in the eastern part of the nation [ 5 ] sees Upper Tract , West Virginia record only 9.50 inches (241.3 mm) of precipitation for the year – the record lowest for a calendar year in the US east ...
December 1 – Bruce Brown, American documentary film director (d. 2017) December 3. Bobby Allison, American race car driver (d. 2024) John Seymour, American politician; December 7 – Thad Cochran, American politician (d. 2019) December 8. Michael Bowen, American artist (d. 2009 in Sweden) James MacArthur, American actor (d. 2010)
October 17 – The American stunt performer Evel Knievel was born in Butte, Montana. October 24 – The minimum wage is established by law in the U.S. October 30 – Orson Welles 's radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds (with script by Howard Koch ) is broadcast, causing panic in various parts of the United States.