he 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 quell a revolt there.
3/12/1929, President Hoover delivered his first State of the Union speech to Congress.
23/9/1929, The $1.5 million, 21,000-seat St. Louis Arena opened.
28/7/1929, Jacqueline Onassis, widow of President Kennedy, was born in Southampton, New York State, as Jacqueline Lee Bouvier.
14/2/1929. The St Valentines Day Massacre took place in Chicago. Seven members of Bugsy Moran’s gang were machine-gunned to death by a rival gang.
13/1/1929, Wyatt Earp, American lawman and hero of the OK Corral, died peacefully aged 81.
1928, Roosevelt, future US President, was elected Governor of New York.
7/12/1928, Noam Chomsky, US social scientist, was born.
19/9/1928. The first cartoon talking picture, Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie, with Mickey Mouse (originally called Mortimer Mouse), was shown in New York.
6/7/1928, The first all-talking feature film, Lights of New York, was presented at The Sound Theatre, New York.
13/3/1928, In Los Angeles, 450 died when a dam burst.
21/1/1928, George Washington Goethals, American, chief engineer of the Panama Canal, died.
3/1/1928, US troops went to Nicaragua to fight the Sandinistas.
7/8/1927, The Peace Bridge opened between Canada and the USA.
21/1/1927, Telly Savalas, American film actor who played ‘Kojak’, was born in Garden City, New York.
19/6/1925, Bank robber Everett Bridgewater and two accomplices were arrested in Indianapolis, Indiana.
3/6/1926, Allan Ginsberg, US poet, was born.
13/1/1929, Wyatt Earp, American lawman and hero of the OK Corral, died peacefully aged 81.
10/10/1925, James Buchanan Duke, US industrialist, (born in Durham, North Carolina, 23/12/1856) died in New York.
26/7/1925, William Jennings Bryan, US Democratic Party orator and prosecutor in the Scopes ‘Monkey Trial’, born 19/3/1860 in Salem, Illinois, died in Dayton, Tennessee.
3/6/1925, Tony Curtis, US actor, was born.
26/5/1925, George Adams, US historian (born 3/6/1851) died.
31/3/1925, The Philadelphia Daily News began publication.
26/5/1924. The US passed a bill to limit immigration to 164,00