It happened in ????

John Fuller

EDUC_515

Fall 2009

This photo taken of the Pine Forest in Snow, Yosemite

National Park

Yellow fever vaccine approved for use on humans

Born this year• Johnny Cash

• Jacques Chirac

• John Updike

Invented this year

• The Parking meter is invented in Oklahoma

• BBC Television first broadcast

• Polaroid film “developed”

US Statistics

• Population, 124 Million• Unemployment, 24%

These two US cities get a workout

• The Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles, CA

• The Winter Olympic Games are held in Lake Placid, NY

Begins 11 year sentence for tax evasion

How Much things cost in ____

• Average Cost of new house $6,510.00• Average wages per year $1,650.00• Gallon of gas 10 cents• Average Cost for house rent $18.00/mo. • A loaf of bread 7 cents• A LB of hamburger 10 cents• New Car Average Price $610

Kidnapped!

Amelia Earhart arrives in London after flying solo across the Atlantic

The year was it?

Topics• A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.• The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.• Comedian Jack Benny's radio show airs for the first time.• In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax

evasion.• The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of

1 cent per US gallon (26 ¢/L) sold.• First Sunday game at Fenway Park, the New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 13-2, and

John McGraw retires from baseball.• The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression,

bottoming out at 41.22.• The 1932 Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles, California.• Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles

to Newark, New Jersey).• Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the H in the Hollywood sign, forever

turning the sign into a symbol for the paradox of the American film industry.• Iraq gains its independence from the UK• Radio City Music Hall opens