Country singer William Lee Golden

Events in 1939 and 12-1

Events in US in the birth year of William Lee Golden

• As World War II begins, Roosevelt submits $1,319-million defense budget, proclaims U.S. neutrality, and declares limited emergency.
• New York World's Fair opens. Background: exposition
• Daughters of the American Revolution refuses to allow Marian Anderson to perform at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
• U.S. Department of Agriculture starts first food stamp program in Rochester, N.Y. Program ends in 1943.

Birthday William Lee Golden (12-1) in history

• Day 12-1 year 1773: The first public museum in the United States was established in Charleston, South Carolina
• Day 12-1 year 1896: H. L. Smith took the first X-ray photograph. It was a hand with a bullet in it.
• Day 12-1 year 1915: The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
• Day 12-1 year 1932: Hattie W. Caraway, a democrat from Arkansas became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
• Day 12-1 year 1964: One month after Zanzibar became independent, the ruling Zanzibar Nationalist Party was overthrown in a violent coup.
• Day 12-1 year 1991: A divided Congress gave President Bush the go-ahead on the Persian Gulf War.
• Day 12-1 year 1998: Nineteen European countries signed an agreement banning human cloning.
• Day 12-1 year 2010: Haiti is dealt a catastrophic blow when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, the country's capital. It is the region's worst earthquake in 200 years. The number of fatalities were between 46,000 and 85,000 people.