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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 ...
Narrated by Liev Schreiber (Danny Webb for the international version), the series recreates many historical events by using actors dressed in the style of the period and computer-generated special effects. The miniseries received mixed reviews by critics; but it attracted the largest audiences of any special aired by the channel to date.
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 ...
America in the 1930s Extensive library of projects on America in the Great Depression from American Studies at the University of Virginia; The 1930s Timeline year by year timeline of events in science and technology, politics and society, culture and international events with embedded audio and video. AS@UVA
[1] [2] The film won the "best documentary" category at the 1938 Venice International Film Festival. Both films have notable scores by Virgil Thomson that are still heard as concert suites, featuring an adaptation of the hymn "How Firm a Foundation". The film was narrated by the American baritone Thomas Hardie Chalmers.
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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 ...
February 14 – Arnold Kopelson, American film producer (d. 2018) February 15 – Roger B. Chaffee, American astronaut (d. 1967) [19] February 16 – Sonny Bono, American singer, actor and politician (d. 1998) February 17. Johnny Bush, American country music singer, songwriter and drummer (d. 2020) Sara Ruddick, American feminist philosopher (d ...