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  • TK266
    TK266 Posts: 3,638 Member
    1933 Duck Soup with the marx brothers another classic
  • ScientistStudy
    ScientistStudy Posts: 249 Member
    1934 Adolph Hitler expands German army and Navy and creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles
  • mgsamuel
    mgsamuel Posts: 9
    1934 Movie:
    Imitation of Life - with Louise Beavers and Claudette Colbert

    This movie is based on the book, "Imitation of Life", by Fannie Hurst. The 1934 movie "Imitation of Life" was very controversial in the Black community because there were strongly different opinions about Delilah's (one of the main charcters) daughter's decision to pass for white.

    • "Imitation of Life" was nominated for three 1935 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Assistant Director (Scott R. Beal)
    and Best Sound

    • "Imitation of Life" was also selected in 2005 to the Library of Congress National Film Registry
  • Captain_Mal
    Captain_Mal Posts: 945 Member
    I think James Joyce's Ulysses would be more fitting for 1934.

    1935 --- Monopoly goes on sale for the first time.
  • DMZ_1
    DMZ_1 Posts: 2,889 Member
    1936-Jesse Owens wins 4 Gold Medals at the Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Adolf Hitler did not acknowledge Owens' accomplishment, as Owens was an African American, a non Aryan.
  • soccermoma11
    soccermoma11 Posts: 126
    1937
    Amelia Earhart goes missing

    On June 1st Amelia Earhart and her flight navigator Fred Noonan take off from Miami attempting a round-the-world flight.
    At midnight GMT on the July 2nd after travelling 22,000 miles they take off from Lae, New Guinea for the final 7,000 miles, 1st stop would be Howland Island in the Pacific.
    The last recorded radio broadcast from Amelia Earhart was at 8:43 am stated "We are on the line 157 337" , she was never heard from again
  • dogacreek
    dogacreek Posts: 289 Member
    1938

    Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds broadcast which suggested to listeners that the world was being invaded by martian aliens. :huh:
  • ValerieMartini2Olives
    ValerieMartini2Olives Posts: 3,024 Member
    1939

    One of my all time favorite movies - The Wizard of Oz - was released.
  • pullipgirl
    pullipgirl Posts: 767 Member
    1940 Feb 7, Walt Disney 2nd feature-length movie, "Pinocchio," premiered in NYC.
  • Drenched_N_Motivation
    Drenched_N_Motivation Posts: 1,004 Member
    1941 movie-

    Citizen Kane - Starring Orsen Welles
  • PBmaria
    PBmaria Posts: 854 Member
    1942-Casablanca!
  • memmers
    memmers Posts: 112
    1943 Phantom of the Opera
  • TK266
    TK266 Posts: 3,638 Member
    1944 Double Indemnity --noir, baby noir
  • Myslissa
    Myslissa Posts: 760 Member
    1945
    394226_VJ-Day-at-Times-Square-New-York-City-1945.jpg
  • zippo32
    zippo32 Posts: 1,407 Member
    1946 - - 1st radar contact with Moon
  • Brunner26_2
    Brunner26_2 Posts: 1,152
    1947 Miracle on 34th Street.
  • kymillion
    kymillion Posts: 791 Member
    1948

    Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in India
  • AshCakes88
    AshCakes88 Posts: 123 Member
    1949

    •12 nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty establishing (NATO)
  • good2bthaking
    good2bthaking Posts: 325 Member
    1950- start of Korean War
  • torylinnangel
    torylinnangel Posts: 253
    1951: first oral contraceptive created
  • dogacreek
    dogacreek Posts: 289 Member
    1952: Princess Elizabeth of York becomes Queen Elizabeth II of England
  • SunKissed1989
    SunKissed1989 Posts: 1,314 Member
    1953

    26th February - Michael Bolton was born
  • heyitsmegxx
    heyitsmegxx Posts: 444
    1954

    Jan 26th - Ground breaking begins on Disneyland.
  • HauteP1nk
    HauteP1nk Posts: 2,139 Member
    1955

    Rosa Parks arrest in Montgomery Alabama for refusing to give up her seat to a white person sets the American Civil Rights Movement in Motion.

    (yay Rosa!)
  • PandaFit450
    PandaFit450 Posts: 619 Member
    1956 -

    Actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III, Prince of Monaco on April 19th ! .
  • aamb
    aamb Posts: 377 Member
    1957


    humphrey bogart died
  • iceqieen
    iceqieen Posts: 862 Member
    1958
    Iceland extends its fishing limits to 12 miles (The first Cod War begins between the United Kingdom and Iceland)

    :P
  • aamb
    aamb Posts: 377 Member
    1958



    nikita khrushchev becomes premier of soviet union
  • aamb
    aamb Posts: 377 Member
    awww.... off to look up 1960 now!! lol
  • Krizzle4Rizzle
    Krizzle4Rizzle Posts: 2,704 Member
    October 2 1959 – Rod Serling's classic anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS.
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