Franklin Delano Roosevelt32th U.S. President

Served from March 4, 1933 to April 4, 1945

• The first nighttime Major League Baseball game is played May 24 at Cro-sley Field in Cincinnati between the Reds and the Philadelphia Phillies.

• Slugger Babe Ruth hits his 714th, and final, home run May 25 at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. Playing for the Boston Braves, Ruth went four for four on the day, hitting three home runs and driving in six. The Braves lost, though, to the Pirates, 11–7. Ruth will play his last game May 30.

• The Boulder (Hoover) Dam is com-pleted May 29 and dedicated Sept. 30, after just three years of construction.

• President Roosevelt signs the U.S. Social Security Act on Aug. 14, provid-ing unemployment compensation and pensions for the elderly. The first So-cial Security taxes won’t be collected until 1937.

• The strongest hurricane to hit the United States makes landfall Sept. 2

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John “Cactus Jack” Garner32nd U.S. Vice PresidentServed from March 4, 1933 to Jan. 20, 1941

“The only limit to our realization of tommorrow will be our doubts of today.”— Franklin Roosevelt

• The China Clipper takes off Nov. 22 from Alameda to deliver the first airmail across the Pacific Ocean. The flying boat took more than 110,000 pieces of mail to its fi-nal destination, Manila, Philippines.

U.S. News• The first official Orange Bowl is

held Jan. 1 in Miami. The Bucknell University Bisons defeated The Uni-versity of Miami Hurricanes, 26–0.

• Mickey Mouse appears in tech-nicolor for the first time with the re-lease of the animated short “The Band Concert” on Feb. 23.

• Porky Pig debuts March 9 as the first major Looney Tunes character in the Merrie Melodies short “I Haven’t Got a Hat.”

• Congress passes The Emergency Relief Appropriation Act on April 8, creating the Works Progress Admin-istration, or WPA, with $4.9 billion in funding.

World events• The Italian colonies of Tripoli and

Cyrenaica join to create the country of Libya on Jan. 1.

• Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean on Jan. 11. The flight, from Honolulu to Oakland, also made her the first to fly solo across both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

• Germany reinstates its air force, the Luftwaffe, on Feb. 26, violating the terms of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. Hitler would announce full re-arma-ment on March 16.

• A 7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Quetta, Balochistan, British In-dia (now Pakistan) in the early hours of May 31, killing between 30,000 and 60,000.

• Briton Sir Malcolm Campbell sets the land speed record Sept. 3 on the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. Campbell and his car, “Bluebird,” broke the 300 mph barrier, surpassing his previous world record of 276.82 mph set ealier that year.

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Babe Ruth hits his final home run.

Movies• Suicide Squad• The Bride of Frankenstein• The 39 Steps• Mutiny on the Bounty• Top Hat• Captain Blood• A Tale of Two Cities• A Night at the Opera• A Midsummer Night’s Dream• The Call of the Wild

Music• Fred Astaire, “Cheek to Cheek”• Eddy Duchin, “Lovely to

Look At”• Shirley Temple, “On the Good

Ship Lollipop”• The Carter Family, “Can the

Circle be Unbroken”• Bing Crosby, “Silent Night,

Holy Night”

BORN THIS YEAR: Elvis Presley, musician, actor (Jan. 8). Above left: Julie Andrews, actress (Oct. 1); Dalai Lama 14th, leader (July 6); Sonny Bono, musician, politician

(Feb. 16); Woody Allen, director, actor (Dec. 1).

in the Florida Keys. The Cat-egory 5 storm kills 423.

• Earl W. Bascom and his brother Weldon produce the first night rodeo held outdoors under electric lights at Colum-bia, Miss., on Sept. 25.

• Parker Brothers releases Monopoly in the U.S. on Nov. 5.

Technology 1935• Toyota produces its first

cars, the A1 passenger car and the G1 truck, as a divi-sion of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works.

• Coopers Inc. sells the world’s first men’s briefs, as “jockeys,” in Chicago on Jan. 19.

• The first canned beer is sold Jan. 24 in Richmond, Va., by Gottfried Krueger Brew-ing Company.

• Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrates the use of radar to detect aircraft Feb. 26 at Daventry, England.

• The world’s first parking me-ters are installed in Oklahoma City on July 16.

•  Income per year  ....... $1,600• Minimum wage  .............. N/A•  New house  ............... $3,450• Monthly rent  .................... $22•  New car  ........................ $625•  Gallon of gas  .................. 19¢•  Dozen eggs  .................... 37¢•  Gallon of milk  .................. 47¢•  Loaf of bread  ..................... 8¢•  First-class stamp  .............. 3¢• Movie ticket  .................... 24¢

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1935 Dodge Touring Sedan

1935 Mercedes-Benz Luxury Roadster

First canned beer debuts.