{"id":931,"date":"2012-02-01T13:14:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T20:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/?p=931"},"modified":"2015-03-03T14:33:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T21:33:31","slug":"montana-history-calendar-1930s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/montana-history-calendar-1930s\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana History Calendar 1930s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022 January 29, 1933 – Amelia Earhart piloted a Ford Trimotor around the Helena Valley.<\/p>\n

\u2022 July 15, 1933 – Going-to-the-Sun highway was dedicated.<\/p>\n

\u2022 March 2, 1933 – Montana Senator Thomas Walsh died on his way to Washington D.C. to take an appointment as the U.S Attorney General.<\/p>\n

\u2022 October 1933 – Construction began on Fort Peck Dam.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1934 – A four-and-a-half month long peaceful strike by the International Mine, Mill and Smelter workers revived union activity in the state.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1935 – The Montana Highway Patrol was formed.<\/p>\n

\u2022 May 6, 1935 – President Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration.<\/p>\n

\u2022 October 1935 – A series of earthquakes killed four people and caused $4 million in damage to buildings, including Helena High School.<\/p>\n

\u2022 December 15, 1935 – Bill Holt was named to replace Gov. Frank Cooney, who died in office.<\/p>\n

\u2022 November 23, 1936 – Fort Peck Dam was the featured cover story of the first issue of LIFE magazine.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jan. 4, 1937 – Roy Ayers was sworn in as governor.<\/p>\n

\u2022 June 12, 1937 – Two\u2013and\u2013one\u2013half inches of rain and hail in one hour ruptured an irrigation canal and caused a major flood in downtown Billings. The Burlington railroad tracks washed out, and the Midland Empire fairgrounds suffered hail damage. The Billings Gazette called it “the greatest catastrophe in the city’s 54 year history.”<\/p>\n

1938-1940<\/p>\n

\u2022 January 10, 1938 – A Northwest Airlines flight crashed near Bozeman, killing 10.<\/p>\n

\u2022 April 22, 1938 – The U.S. Government transferred Lewis and Clark Caverns to the state of Montana. The area would become the first state park in 1941.<\/p>\n

\u2022 April 1938 – Kerr Dam near Polson became operational.<\/p>\n

\u2022 June 19, 1938 – The Milwaukee Road “Olympian” derailed near Miles City, with 47 dead and 75 injured.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sept.22, 1938 – A major landslide at the Fort Peck Dam construction site killed 8 men.<\/p>\n

\u2022 July 12, 1940 – Missoula smokejumpers Earl Cooley and Rufus Robinson made the first parachute jump on a fire.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sept. 11, 1940 – Fire destroyed the Northern Hotel and damaged 13 other Billings businesses.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sept. 16, 1940 – The National Guard was inducted into the Regular Army.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sept. 25, 1940 – Congress passed the first peacetime draft.<\/p>\n

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