strikers fought with police and burned independent cabs.
16/11/1933, The USA established diplomatic relations with the USSR for the first time since the Russian Revolution.
7/11/1933, LaGuardia was elected Mayor of New York; he served until 1045.
31/10/1933, The carvings of the four heads of Presidents at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, was completed.
30/9/1933, US President Franklin D Roosevelt announced the US$ 700 million New Deal for the poor.
6/6/1933. The first drive – in cinema opened in Camden, New Jersey, with room for 400 cars.
27/5/1933, The ‘Century of World Progress’ Fair opened in Chicago.
22/5/1933. President Roosevelt appointed Harry Hopkins as the administrator of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. This was to give aid and work to the destitute in the USA as the 1930s Depression deepened. 29/10/1929 was the date of the Wall Street Crash.
24/4/1933, Felix Adler, US educationalist (born 13/8/1851) died.
12/3/1933, In the US, President Roosevelt made the first of his ‘fireside chats’ by radio to the people. He assured people that the banks were safe for depositing savings.
9/3/1933, In the US, the holding of gold bullion by private citizens was made illegal by the Emergency Banking Relief Act. This was a measure to ensure that all gold in the US was available to back the US Dollar during the Depression.
4/3/1933. President Franklin D Roosevelt was inaugurated in the USA. In the midst of the Depression, with banks closing, he said “We have nothing to fear but fear itself”.
23/1/1933, The US, under the 20th Amendment, moved the Inauguration Day of its Presidents from 4 March to 23 January. The aim was to reduce the ‘lame duck’ period of an outgoing President.
7/9/1932, J Paul Getty II, US philanthropist, was born.
9/7/1932. King Camp Gillette, American inventor of the safety razor and blade, died.
16/7/1932, Rioting broke out in front of the White House by members of the Bonus Army who still refused to leave the capital. Contrary to tradition, President Hoover did not attend the final day of the 72nd Congress before adjourning until December due to safety concerns.
8/3/1932. Franklin D. Roosevelt won the New Hampshire presidential primary
7/3/1932, 5,000 unemployed workers laid off by the Ford Motor Company marched through Detroit to demand relief payments. As the unarmed crowd got near Gate 4 of the River Rouge Ford Plant at Dearborn, armed police and security giards stormed out of the plant and fired on the workers, killing five.
1/3/1932, The 20-month old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped from the nursery of their home in Hopwell, New Jersey. He was found dead on 12/5/1932. Bruno Hauptmann was convicted of the crime and electrocuted.
22/2/1932. Edward Kennedy, American senator and younger brother of President Kennedy, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts.
24/10/1931. Al Capone, 32, Chicago gang boss of the Prohibition era, was jailed for 11 years for tax evasion. He was also fined US$80,000. He was released in 1939 and died on 25/1/1947 of a brain haemorrhage.
4/10/1931. Richard Rorty, US philosopher, was born (died 2007).
1/10/1931, The Waldorf Astoria, on Park Avenue, New York, opened. It was the world’s largest commercial hotel building.
17/9/1931. 33 1/3 rpm LP records were released in the USA. They were demonstrated at the Savoy Plaza Hotel, New York.
31/7/1931, Cleveland Municipal Stadium, home of the Cleveland Indians, opened. It was the largest baseball stadium in the world.
22/6/1931. In The USA, President Hoover suggested that German war reparations be suspended for a year to stimulate world trade.
26/3/1931, Leonard Nimoy, American film actor who played Dr Spock in the TV series Star Trek, was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
19/3/1931, Indigestion aid Alka-Seltzer went on sale in the USA.
18/3/1931, The US company Schick Inc started to manufacture electric razors.
3/3/1931. The song, ‘The Star Spangled Banner’, became the American National Anthem.
30/12/1930, The Colonial National Monument in Virginia was proclaimed by President Hoover.
6/12/1929, US marines were sent to Haiti to que