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View upstream from Hoover Dam, October 2021, during the Southwestern North American megadrought. The changes in water flow and use caused by Hoover Dam's construction and operation have had a large impact on the Colorado River Delta. [124] The construction of the dam has been implicated in causing the decline of this estuarine ecosystem. [124]
Human demands for water from the Colorado have far ... The ultimate danger is that Lake Mead reaches the “dead pool” stage. ... only four times since construction of Hoover Dam began in 1931 ...
1936 - Hoover Dam; 1936 – Life magazine publishes first issue; 1936 – United States v. Butler, which ruled that the processing taxes instituted under the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act were unconstitutional; 1936 – Second London Naval Treaty; 1936 - Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals at the Olympics in Berlin, Germany
November 11, 2009, was an ordinary day for two construction workers on a highway near the historic Hoover Dam on the border of Nevada and Arizona. That is, until something out of the ordinary ...
The tight time frame caused even more friction and peril and by the time the project was finished in 1936, over 100 workers had died in the process. The Hoover Dam was the largest dam and ...
Other major U.S. government work projects included Hoover Dam which was constructed between 1931 and 1936. Rapid industrialization takes place in the Soviet Union. Prohibition in the United States ended in 1933. On December 5, 1933, the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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January 18: Eugene Burton Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft lands on a ship. March 25: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City results in the deaths of 146 workers and leads to sweeping workplace safety reforms. April – November: Agadir Crisis.