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Stock Market Crash
Black Tuesday was the day the Stock Market crashed, there were 16 million shares exchanged in New York city that day. The Stock Market crash made people poor and started the Great Depression. -
Richard Drew invents scotch tape
Dew woked for Johnson and Johnson. He was testing his masking tape he invented in 1915 and was seeing how much more adhesive he needed to add. He got mad and said "Take this tape back to those Scotch bosses of yours and tell them to put more adhesive on it!" and that is how the tape got its name. -
Charles Chaplin releases City Lights
Chaplin comes out with a movie. It is about a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically. -
Shirley temple stars in first movie
Her first movie that she starred in was called Runt Page. It was about a poor girl who falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn't have the right kind of dress to wear, so her family and friends band together to raise money to get her the proper dress. -
United States abandons gold standard.
The gold standered was when the Federal Reserve was created to stabilize gold and currency values. It made the Great Depression worse becaus the price of gold rose and nobody could afford it anymore. -
President Roosevelt first fireside chat
Theodore Roosevelt was dicovering the technology of the radio. He found out he could do a fireside chat which is an informal conversation. He talked about banking and how money affects the Great Depression. -
First Drive-in Movie Theater
Richard Hollingshead's vision was an open-air movie theater where moviegoers could watch from their own cars. Had an investment of $30,000, Richard opened the first drive-in. The price of admission was 25 cents for the car and 25 cents per person. Located in Camden, New Jersey. -
John Dillinger shot by FBI
Dillinger robbed at least a dozen banks and led police and federal agents on a yearlong chase across the Midwest before being gunned down outside a Chicago movie theater in July 1934. He also broke his friends out of jail, he himself broke out of jail and was a nationwide celebrity -
Jesse Owens wins four Olympic gold medals.
Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal of the Games in the 4×100-meter relay. Jesse Owens and other African American athletes struck a propaganda blow against Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, who planned to use the Berlin Games as a showcase of supposed Aryan superiority. -
John D. Rockefeller dies at 98
He developed alopecia, a condition that causes the loss of some or all body hair. He did not have a hair on his body, and he began wearing wigs. The hair never grew back, but his other health complaints subsided as he lightened his workload. He died of arteriosclerosis -
First Succesful Helicopter Invented by Igor Sikorsky
It was built by the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Division of the United Aircraft Corporation, the helicopter was this first to incorporate a single main rotor and tail rotor design. Piloted by Sikorsky and ony lasted a couple of seconds. -
Roosevelt was reelected a for a thrid term.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is re-elected for an unprecedented third term as president of the United States. The president received some criticism for running again because there was an unwritten rule in American politics that no U.S. president should serve more than two terms.
