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Warner Brothers Becomes a company
Warner Brothers Pictures is established -
Calvin Coolidge is elected president
Calvin Coolidge wins his first election as President with the Electoral margin being 382 to 136. -
The first Woman Governor is elected
Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as the first woman governor of the United States in Wyoming. -
NBC is formed
The NBC Radio Network is formed by Westinghouse, General Electric, and RCA. -
Work on Mount Rushmore starts
Work on the gigantic sculpture at Mount Rushmore begins. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum would make a statue of four presidents; George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, fourteen years later. -
The great Depression starts
During the 1929 Stock Market crash the plummeting stock prices led to losses of an estimated $50 billion and started the worst American depression in the nation's history. -
The national anthem is established
The Star-Spangled Banner, by Francis Scott Key, is established as the national anthem. -
The social security act is passed
The Social Security Act is passed by Congress as part of the New Deal. It would begin payouts to retirees within two years. -
The National Minimum Wage is signed to law
The National Minimum Wage is signed into law within the federal legislation known as the Fair Labor Standards Act. It established a minimum wage of $0.25 at the time. -
The U.S. declares neutrality
September 5, 1939 - The United States declares its neutrality in the European war after Germany invaded Poland, effectively beginning World War II after a year of European attempts to appease Hitler and the aims of expansionist Nazi Germany.