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Emergency in Water Transportation of the United States: Declared a national emergency arising from insufficient tonage to carry the products of the farms, forests, mines and manufacturing industries of the United States, and admonishes all citizens to abide by the regulations in the Shipping Act. Ended Franklin Roosevelt: March 6, 1933 [9]
February 8 – Capital punishment: Gee Jon suffers the first state execution using a gas chamber in the United States, at Nevada State Prison. February 9 – Canada's National Hockey League expands to the United States for the first time with the inclusion of the Boston Bruins .
A 1924 newspaper predicted what life would be like today. Here’s what it got right—and horribly wrong. Chris Morris. January 24, 2024 at 12:08 PM. Getty Images. ... in 1924 that by today, the ...
1924 Virginia elections (3 P) S. 1924 in sports in Virginia (10 P) Pages in category "1924 in Virginia" This category contains only the following page.
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The Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924 was a U.S. state law in Virginia for the sterilization of institutionalized persons "afflicted with hereditary forms of insanity that are recurrent, idiocy, imbecility, feeble-mindedness or epilepsy”. [2] It greatly influenced the development of eugenics in the twentieth century.
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