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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1923 | - 2 Aug 1923—3 Mar 1929: Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States
Calvin Coolidge
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| 2 | 1924 | - 4 Nov 1924—5 Jun 1929: Stanley Baldwin, UK Prime Minister (Conservative)
Stanley Baldwin
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| 3 | 1928 | - 1928: Women over 21 get vote in Britain
- 26 Apr 1928: Madame Tussauds opens in London
- 15 Sep 1928: Sir Alexander Fleming accidentally discovers penicillin (results published 1929)
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| 4 | 1929 | - 1929: Abolition of Poor Law system in Britain
- 1929: Minimum age for a marriage in Britain (which had been 14 for a boy and 12 for a girl)
now 16 for both sexes, with parental consent (or a licence) needed for anyone under 21
- 1929: BBC begins experimental TV transmissions
- 1929: US Stock Market
The stock market crash in New York.
- 1929—1935: James Ramsay MacDonald, UK Prime Minister (Labour)
James Ramsay MacDonald
- 4 Mar 1929—3 Mar 1933: Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st President of the United States
Herbert Clark Hoover
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| 5 | 1930 | - 1930: First Nazis elected to the German Reichstag
- 1930: Youth Hostel Association (YHA) founded in Britain
- 30 Jan 1930: Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
- 31 Jan 1930: 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape
- 6 Mar 1930: Clarence Birdseye first marketed frozen peas
- 5 Oct 1930: R101 airship disaster
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| 6 | 1931 | - 1931: Statute of Westminster: British Dominions become independent sovereign states
- 1931: Collapse of the German banking system; 3,000 banks there close
- 1931: The unemployment rate in the Netherlands soars to unprecedented heights.
- 14 Apr 1931: Highway Code first issued
- 26 Apr 1931: Census: Population - England and Wales; 40 Million; Scotland: 4.8 Million; N Ireland: 1.24 Million (Unfortunately, the census was destroyed by fire in WW2)
- 21 Oct 1931: National Government formed to deal with economic crisis
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| 7 | 1932 | - 1932: Great Hunger March of unemployed to London
- 1932: Moseley founds British Union of Fascists
- 1932: Cockroft and Walton accelerate particles to disintegrate an atomic nucleus
- 1932: Sir Thomas Beecham established the London Philharmonic Orchestra
- 21 May 1932: Amelia Earhart first solo nonstop flight across Atlantic by a female pilot
- 3 Oct 1932: Iraq gains independence from Britain
- 3 Oct 1932: 'The Times' introduces 'Times New Roman' typeface
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| 8 | 1933 | - 1933: ICI scientists discover polythene
- 1933: Only 6 pennies minted in Britain this year
- 4 Mar 1933—12 Apr 1945: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 12 Nov 1933: First known photos of the 'Loch Ness Monster' taken
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| 9 | 1934 | - 1934: Hitler becomes Fuehrer of Germany
- 18 Jul 1934: King George V opens Mersey Tunnel
- 26 Sep 1934: RMS Queen Mary launched
- 30 Nov 1934: First time a steam locomotive travels at 100 mph ('Flying Scotsman')
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| 10 | 1935 | - 1935: London adopts a 'Green Belt' scheme
- 1935: Land speed record of 301.13 mph by Malcolm Campbell
- 28 Feb 1935: Nylon first produced by Gerard J. Berchet of Wallace Carothers' research group
at DuPont (there is no evidence to the widely-supposed story that the name derives from
New York-London)
- 12 Mar 1935: Hore-Belisha introduces pedestrian crossings and speed limits for built-up areas
in Britain
- 1 Jun 1935: Voluntary driving tests introduced in UK
- 7 Jun 1935—26 May 1937: Stanley Baldwin, UK Prime Minister (Conservative)
Stanley Baldwin
- 30 Jul 1935: Penguin paperbacks launched
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1928 - 1935 (6 years)