Football coach Bud Carson

Events in 1930 and 28-4

Events in US in the birth year of Bud Carson

• Unemployment soars, prompting President Hoover to appoint a Commission for Unemployment Relief.
• Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act is passed by Congress. The act brings retaliatory tariff acts from foreign countries, U.S. foreign trade suffers a sharp decline, and the depression intensifies.
• N.Y. Supreme Court Judge Joseph Crater withdraws all his money from the bank, sells his stock, and disappears. His fate is never learned.

Birthday Bud Carson (28-4) in history

• Day 28-4 year 1788: Maryland became the 7th state in the United States.
• Day 28-4 year 1789: Sailor Fletcher Christian led a mutiny aboard the British ship Bounty against Captain William Bligh.
• Day 28-4 year 1945: Benito Mussolini was executed.
• Day 28-4 year 1947: Thor Heyerdahl and five others began their Pacific Ocean crossing on the raft, Kon-Tiki.
• Day 28-4 year 1967: Boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army.
• Day 28-4 year 1992: The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture unveiled its first “food pyramid.”
• Day 28-4 year 2001: Dennis Tito became the first space tourist.
• Day 28-4 year 2004: The Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal first comes to light when graphic photos of U.S. soldiers physically abusing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners were shown on CBS's 60 Minutes II.