March 5 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions (the 'holiday' ends on March 13).
March 7 – The real-estate trading board game Monopoly is developed.
March 9 – Great Depression: The U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation.
March 15 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average rises from 53.84 to 62.10. The day's gain of 15.34%, achieved during the depths of the Great Depression, remains to date as the largest 1-day percentage gain for the index.
March 22 – President Roosevelt signs the Cullen–Harrison Act, an amendment to the Volstead Act, allowing the manufacture and sale from April 7 of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines,[1] 8 months before the full repeal of Prohibition in December.[2]
March 31 – Civilian Conservation Corps established as an unemployment relief program by voice vote in Congress, followed on April 5 by Executive Order 6101.[3]
June 5 – The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world, landing at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, after traveling eastbound 15,596mi (25,099km) in 7 days 18 hours 45 minutes.
July 24
Several members of the Barrow Gang are injured or captured during a running battle with local police near Dexter, Iowa.
In one of his radio Fireside chats, "On the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program", President Roosevelt introduces the term "first 100 days".[6]
August 14 – Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (971km2).
October 10 – United Air Lines Flight 23: A United AirlinesBoeing 247 is destroyed by the mid-air explosion of a bomb on a transcontinental flight near Chesterton, Indiana, killing all 7 on board, in the first proven case of sabotage in civil aviation, although no suspect is ever identified.
November 11 – Dust Bowl: In South Dakota, a very strong dust storm strips topsoil from desiccated farmlands (one of a series of disastrous dust storms this year).
January 5 – Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929, 29th vice president of the United States from 1921 to 1923 (born 1872)
March 30 – Giuseppe Zangara, attempted assassin of president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, killer of Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago, executed (born 1900)
April 5 – Earl Derr Biggers, detective novelist and playwright, heart attack (born 1884)
April 13 – Adelbert Ames, Governor of Mississippi from 1868 to 1870 and from 1874 to 1876 and U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1870 to 1874 (born 1835)
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