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- Timeline of United States history (1930-1949) (8681 bytes)
1: ...United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1930]] to [[1949]]'''.
3: ...:Lange-MigrantMother02.jpg|250px|thumb|[[Dorothea Lange]]'s "Migrant Mother," an iconic image of the G...
4: === [[1930s]] ===
5: *[[1930]] - [[Hawley-Smoot tariff]]
9: *[[1932]] - [[Norris-Laguardia Act]]
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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
7: | [[Alabama]]
8: | [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
11: | [[Alaska]]
12: | [[Juneau, Alaska|Juneau]]
35: | [[Delaware]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...cle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fict...
28: ...[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Northeast...
30: ...st Africa]], [[China]], [[Tombouctou]] and other places
31: *[[Nicolas Baudin]] - [[18th century]] [[France|French]] ex...
38: ... - [[Ireland|Irish]] [[abbot]] who sailed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] - November 4 (10686 bytes)
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9: ... England|William, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
12: ...es|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ... States Republican Party|Republican]] [[James G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of ...
15: ...pia|Menelek of Shoa]] obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving... - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
5: *[[Jeppe Aakj沼Aakj沬 Jeppe]], (1866-1930), Danish writer
9: ...misepp|Aamisepp, Julius]], (1883-1950), Estonian plant breeder
12: *[[Hank Aaron|Aaron, Hank]], (1934-), baseball player - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
8: *[[Marcel Achard|Achard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
9: *[[Chinua Achebe|Achebe, Chinua]], (born 1930), Nigerian writer
14: *[[Achillas of Alexandria]], (died 313), Coptic Pope, Patria...
64: *[[Marcela Acuna|Acuna, Marcela]], (born c. 1979), Argentine world boxing champio... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
34: ...gail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
44: ..., British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]
45: ...to Rican who was convicted of drug dealing in the Laura Hernandez case
61: ...[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player
69: ...rchitect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
2: ...een of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India]]
7: ...] of the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the ti...
9: ...al change in the United Kingdom. Victoria was the last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her succes...
12: ...nly child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 May]] [[1819]].
14: ...[[Greek language|Greek]], [[Latin]], and [[French language|French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...escape death during the [[Great Purge]]s of the [[1930s]].
5: ...[[Julius Martov]] and the [[Bolshevik]]s under [[Vladimir Lenin]] in [[1903]], Kollontai did not side ...
7: ...henodtel was eventually closed by [[Stalin]] in [[1930]].
9: [[Image:AlexandraKollantaiLarge.jpeg|200px|left]]
13: ...ecoming the world's first female Ambassador. She later served as Ambassador to [[Mexico]] and [[Swede... - Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo (549 bytes)
1: ...''Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo''' ([[January 18]],[[1930]]-[[July 10]],[[2004]]) was the first woman (and ... - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
7: ...ous [[suffragist]] and member of the Alberta legislature);
20: .... Canada (Attorney General)'' <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[1930]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> A.C. 124 (P.C.)), the Privy C...
22: Four months later, [[Cairine Wilson]] became the first woman to ...
24: ...ted on Canada's newest [[Canadian dollar|fifty-dollar bill]].
28: ...ter power: Two became members of the Alberta Legislature and one a member of the [[Canadian House of C... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
6: ..., Kansas|Atchison]], [[Kansas]], Amelia loved to play with her younger sister, Muriel. This time that ...
8: ...star]]. After her parents divorced, she sold the plane in 1924 and moved back East, where she was empl...
10: ...veloped a friendship during preparation for the Atlantic crossing. They were married on [[February 7]]...
14: ...o land in a pasture near [[Derry]], [[Northern Ireland]], [[United Kingdom]]. She received the [[Disti...
16: ..." financed by [[Purdue University]], she started planning her round-the-world flight. - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
4: ...lot's licence at the [[London Aeroplane Club]] in late [[1929]].
8: ...lane for this flight a [[De Havilland]] [[De Havilland Gipsy Moth|Gipsy Moth]] (registration G-AAAH) n...
10: ...ying from [[England]] to [[Japan]] in a [[De Havilland]] [[Puss Moth]] co-piloted with [[Jack Humphrey...
12: ...], [[South Africa]], also in a Puss Moth. She was later to regain this record, this time flying a [[Pe...
16: ...les]], to the [[United States|USA]] in 1933. The plane ran out of fuel and crashed in [[Bridgeport, Co... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...the first [[compiler]] for a computer programming language.
3: ...ceived an MA degree in the same two subjects in [[1930]] and in [[1934]] became the first woman to recei...
5: ... development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculators.
7: ...the A compiler and its first version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were released commercially as the [[...
9: ... to English rather than in [[machine code]] or in languages close to machine code, such as the [[assem... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
3: ...y|astronomer]] noted for her research into [[globular cluster]]s, but best remembered for her astronom...
7: ...[Ontario]] where she took a job at the [[David Dunlap Observatory]], where Frank Hogg became director ... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: ...[Katowice]] (then in [[Germany]], now part of [[Poland]]) and became one of the few women to receive a...
3: ...ranck]] and [[Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus]]. In [[1930]] G?rt married Dr. [[Joseph Edward Mayer]], the a...
5: ...]] she became a professor in [[Chicago]] at Sarah Lawrence College. Here she developed a model for the...
7: ...umbers are called "[[Magic Numbers]]". Maria postulated, against the received wisdom of the time, that...
11: ...ey had published their results Maria sought to collaborate with them. One of German team, [[Hans Jense... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
15: ... poor farming family. Clyde was first arrested in late 1926, after running when police confronted him ...
19: ...g the evening of [[January 5]] [[1930]] in the Dallas neighborhood of [[Oak Cliff, Texas|Oak Cliff]]. ...
23: ...yde. A prisoner serving a life sentence took the blame willingly for this killing. Fellow inmate [[Ral...
25: ...e returned to Texas within weeks, embroiled in a plan to raid Eastham prison and free associate [[Raym...
27: ... [[Kaufman, Texas]] jail, Bonnie returned to [[Dallas]] in June of 1932, and was soon back on the road... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
3: ...list]] and media sensation in the [[1920s]] and [[1930s]], founder of the [[International Church of the ...
13: ... [[Hong Kong]], however, they both contracted [[malaria]]. Robert Semple died of the disease on August...
27: ... Gospel church. She supervised construction of a large, domed church building in the [[Echo Park, Los...
29: ...nt. McPherson's uniqueness in this respect, her flamboyance and her unashamed use of low-key sex appe...
31: ...is faith, incorporating demonstrations of [[glossolalia|speaking-in-tongues]] and [[faith healing]] in... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
1: ...mage:Leni_Riefenstahl.jpg|frame|Riefenstahl circa 1930]]
2: ...film industry after [[World War II|the war]], she later became a [[photographer]].
7: ...It is not documented that she would ever have a relationship with Hitler.
13: ...e Nazis, the court called her a "sympathizer". In later interviews, Riefenstahl maintained that she wa...
15: ...ce. Her biopic and imdb list _no_ films after Tiefland-->As a result she became a [[photographer]]. Sh... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: ...[1940s]], she became one of the best and most popular stars in American history.
5: ... "had no future at all as a performer". Two years later, she witnessed , Warner, a friend of her broth...
7: ...any small movie roles in the 1930s as a contract player for [[RKO]]. She switched to [[MGM]] (after li...
9: ...year to much press attention. However, Arnaz's philandering and drinking caused problems right from th...
17: [[image:chocolate_factory1.jpg|thumb|right|230px|Lucy and Ethel t... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
1: [[Image:Tallulah.jpg|thumb|Tallulah Bankhead, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934...
2: ...show host, and bon vivant, born in [[Huntsville, Alabama]].
4: ...H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
6: At 15, Tallulah Bankhead won a movie-magazine beauty contest & c...
10: ...e [[West End (of London)|West End]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities. - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
8: ...ave school and go to work. Her first job was as a lather girl in a barbershop. She then became a clerk...
12: ...at Garbo be given a contract as well. But their relationship came to an end as her fame grew. He was f...
17: ...27]]). The latter two she starred in with the popular leading man [[John Gilbert (actor)|John Gilbert]...
19: ...rst time in ''[[Anna Christie]]'' ([[1930 in film|1930]]), which was publicized with the slogan "Garbo T...
21: ...ely, her one-time fianc鬠John Gilbert, whose popularity was waning, did not fare as well after the ad... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...]], widely recognized for her sharp wit, [[New England]] gentility and fierce independence. A screen ...
5: ...eryone, but we grew quite to enjoy that," Hepburn later said of her unabashedly liberal family, who sh...
7: ...ging Up Baby]]'', which is now held up as an exemplar of [[screwball comedy]].
10: ..., the same year she debuted on [[Broadway]] after landing a bit part in ''[[Night Hostess]]''.
12: ...d. They decided to carry on their marriage in a platonic fashion, and the two would remain lifelong f... - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
10: and [[melodica]]s), the mouth harmonica lacks a keyboard. Instead,
20: also in [[jazz]], [[classical music]], [[country music]], [[rock and roll...
24: The harmonica consists of a "comb" made of wood, plastic or metal which
25: creates the holes into which a player blows or draws to make distinct
26: ... comb. Over the reedplates, there is a metal or plastic cover which projects the sound out of the ope... - Turkey (41694 bytes)
5: ([[Turkish language|Turkish]]: Yurtta Sulh, Cihanda Sulh) |
7: image_flag = Flag of Turkey.svg |
10: capital = [[Ankara]] |latd=52|latm=31|latNS=N|longd=13|longm=24|longEW=E|
11: largest_city = [[Istanbul]] |latd=41|latm=1|latNS=N|longd=28|longm=57|longEW=E|
12: official_languages = [[Turkish language|Turkish]]| - Brazil (12581 bytes)
1: ...ugal, Brazil has [[Portuguese]] as its [[official language]].
8: ...ishing the independent [[Empire of Brazil]]. This lasted until the next emperor, [[Pedro II of Brazil|...
9: In the late [[19th century|19th]] and early [[20th century|...
10: ...eplaced by [[dictatorship]] three times — [[1930]]–[[1934]] and [[1937]]–[[1945]] unde...
15: ...e president are elected on the same ticket by popular vote for four-year terms. The president has exte... - Argentina (30219 bytes)
5: image_flag = Argentina_flag_large.png |
8: ..._motto = En Unión y Libertad<br>([[English language|English]]: In Union and Liberty)|
10: official_languages = [[Spanish language|Spanish]]|
12: latd=34|latm=20|latNS=S|longd=58|longm=30|longEW=W|
13: largest_city = [[Buenos Aires]] | - Cuba (25106 bytes)
2: ... west [[Mexico]], to the southwest the [[Cayman Islands]] and [[Jamaica]], and to the southeast [[Hait...
6: ...was granted in [[1902]], though limited by the [[Platt Amendment]] (revoked in [[1934]]), after which ...
8: ...lliteracy ran about 12%, one of the lowest in the latin american countries.
10: ...le were expanded to cover all Cubans.After some delay, a [[Constitution]] of Soviet inspiration was ad...
12: ...ban patriots, and U.S. Special Forces landing at Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs)on April 17,1961 where they ... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...deira and Porto Santo]] (including the [[Savage Islands]]).
5: ..., a possibly mixed [[Greek language|Greek]] and [[Latin]] name meaning "Beautiful Port". During the [[...
7: ...subsequent decades, with a clear slow-down in the last few years.
15: ...rtugal for a long time. The [[Celtic|Celtics]], a later wave of Celts, settled in [[Alentejo]].
17: ... was carried out, leading [[Lusitania]] to gain [[Latin Right]] in [[73|73 AD]].{{Inote | ''Hist d... - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
2: ...mber One in its list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players."
4: ...ke Babe Ruth unequivocally the greatest baseball player of all time. In several ways, he changed the ...
7: ...orn at 216 Emory Street in south [[Baltimore, Maryland]]. The house was rented by his maternal grandfa...
9: ... him for countless hours on hitting, fielding and later, pitching.
12: ...ed the position because he was involved in every play. One day, as his team was getting pounded, Babe ... - California (63989 bytes)
4: Flag = California state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of California]] |
10: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
11: LargestCity = [[Los Angeles, California|Los A...
15: PostalAbbreviation = CA | - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
4: Flag = Connecticut state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Connecticut]] |
10: LargestCity = [[Bridgeport, Connecticut|Bridgepo...
12: PostalAbbreviation = CT |
13: OfficialLang = ''English'' | - Vermont (39851 bytes)
4: Flag = Vermont state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Vermont]] |
10: LargestCity = [[Burlington, Vermont|Burlington]]...
11: Governor = [[Jim Douglas]] |
12: PostalAbbreviation = VT | - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
7: * 2 MYA: [[Origin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest lik...
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
34: ... BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
52: * [[Glass]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
5: *[[Laloo Prasad Yadav|Yadav, Laloo Prasad]] (born 1948), [[India]]n politician
7: ...nder Nikolaevich Yakovlev|Yakovlev, Alexander Nikolaevich]] (born 1923)
12: ...ander Yakushev|Yakushev, Alexander]], ice hockey player
21: ...i]] (1885-1946), Japanese lieutenant general in Malaya, Singapore and the Philippines
31: ...onal Basketball Association|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]] - Ecosystem (2598 bytes)
1: ...naturally occurring assemblage of [[organism]]s (plant, animal and other living organisms—also r...
3: ...nd Lindeman]] in his classic study of a Minnesota lake (Lindeman, 1942).
7: ...[[earth]] can be seen as a single ecosystem, or a lake can be divided into several ecosystems, dependi...
9: ... disastrous results, eventually leading to the collapse of an ecosystem and the death of many of its n... - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
1: ... as well as the [[international]], which shaped a large part of the [[history]] of the [[20th century]...
3: ...e Roaring Twenties broke out in [[Germany]], [[England]] and [[France]], where the second half of this...
5: ...e idea of modernity to a large parts of the [[population]]. Formal decorative frills were shed in favo...
8: ...he [[Great Depression]] that would dominate the [[1930]]s.
11: ...y rebounded as the returning soldiers entered the labor force and factories were retooled to produce c... - Solar system (21174 bytes)
1: ...h]] is the third planet of the Solar System. ''[[Planetary system]]s'' are a more generic term for [[s...
3: ==Planets In the Solar System==
5: The wide variety of objects that exist in the Solar System fall into several categories. In recent y...
7: ...(☉) is a [[Stellar_classification|spectral class]] G2 [[star]] that contains 99.86% of the syste...
8: ... Solar System are those nine bodies traditionally labelled as such: - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...pse|elliptical]] orbits between those of [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] and [[Jupiter]]. [[image:433eros.jpg|t...
4: ...term to the small moons of the [[gas giant|giant planets]]. The first [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-b...
6: ...olar system, and some argue that not every minor planet should be called an "asteroid".
8: ...e through [[Earth's atmosphere]] and strike Earth largely intact while the smaller meteoroids generall...
10: ...signate man-made objects which have ended up in solar orbits, such as the [[Mariner IV]] probe. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
5: Shortcuts to highly popular [[painter]]s:
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [...
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impress...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]] - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
1: [[Image:Landon-IcarusandDaedalus.jpg|right|thumb|Icarus and ...
3: ...ionary tale about attempting to reach heaven, similar to the [[Tower of Babel]] story in [[The Bible]]...
5: ... are controlled by [[computer]]s, which can make planes that were otherwise unflyable able to fly, suc...
13: ...ee [[First flying machine]] for a review of such claims.
15: ...h century from materials that would have been available to da Vinci. The design was deemed flightworth... - Timeline of United States history (2967 bytes)
11: *[[Timeline of United States history (1930-1949)|1930-1949]]
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4: [[Image:National-atlas-1970-1900.png|thumb|U.S. territorial extent in 1...
6: *[[1900]] - US [[population]] exceeds 75 [[million]]
13: *[[1901]] - [[Platt Amendment]]
16: ...02]] - First [[Rose Bowl (game)|Rose Bowl]] game played
17: *[[1902]] - [[Newlands Reclamation Act]] - Timeline of United States history (1930-1949) (8681 bytes)
1: ...United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1930]] to [[1949]]'''.
3: ...:Lange-MigrantMother02.jpg|250px|thumb|[[Dorothea Lange]]'s "Migrant Mother," an iconic image of the G...
4: === [[1930s]] ===
5: *[[1930]] - [[Hawley-Smoot tariff]]
9: *[[1932]] - [[Norris-Laguardia Act]] - Timeline of United States history (1950-1969) (7885 bytes)
10: *[[1951]] - General [[Douglas MacArthur]] fired by Truman for invading China
18: *[[1954]] - [[Saint Lawrence Seaway Act]]
25: ...of China]] lays siege on [[Quemoy]] and [[Matsu Islands]]; Eisenhower sends in navy
27: ... Organizations|CIO]] merge in America's largest [[labor union]]
35: *[[1957]] - Russians launch [[Sputnik]]; "[[space race]]" begins - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
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13: | [[February 18]], [[1930]]
120: ...egarding whether Pluto should be classified as a planet (see below for details). Its symbol is a combi...
124: ... orbit of [[Neptune (planet)|Neptune]]. It is [[#Planet X?|now known]] these discrepancies were an art...
126: ...emis]]'', ''[[Athene]]'', ''[[Atlas (mythology)|Atlas]]'', ''[[Cosmos]]'', ''[[Hera]]'', ''[[Hercules]... - January 2 (10888 bytes)
6: ...66]] - [[Alamanni]] cross the frozen [[Rhine]] in large numbers, invading [[Roman Empire]].
8: *[[1492]] - [[Reconquista]]: [[Granada]], the last [[Moors|Moorish]] stronghold in [[Spain]], surr...
11: ...1793]] - [[Russia]] and [[Prussia]] partition [[Poland]].
12: *[[1815]] - [[Lord Byron]] marries Anna Isabella Milbanke, [[Seaham]], [[County Durham]].
15: ...[[1860]] - The discovery of the planet [[Vulcan (planet)|Vulcan]] was announced at a meeting of the [[... - Skyscraper (12706 bytes)
9: The skyscraper first emerged in the land-strapped areas of [[New York City]] and [[Chica...
11: ...m curtain wall for tall systems of glass that are laterally supported by these skeletal frames. Specia...
19: ... the [[CN Tower]], [[TV masts]], bridges, or oil platforms.
30: |2||[[Petronas Tower 1]]||[[Kuala Lumpur]]||452 m||1,483 ft||88||1998||
32: |3||[[Petronas Tower 2]]||Kuala Lumpur||452 m||1,483 ft||88||1998 - Cattle (12844 bytes)
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15: ...attle''' are [[domestication|domesticated]] [[ungulate]]s, a member of the [[subfamily]] [[Bovinae]] o... - El Salvador (12362 bytes)
1: ... populated state on the [[Americas|American]] mainland and the most [[Industrialization|industrialized...
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14: ...onal motto]]: Dios, UniLibertad<br>([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: God, Union, Liberty)''</small> - Blue Whale (22203 bytes)
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