MC game show Jim Perry

Events in 1933 and 9-11

Events in US in the birth year of Jim Perry

• Giuseppe Zangara executed for attempted assassination of President-elect Roosevelt in which Chicago Mayor Cermak is fatally shot. Background: Assassinations and Attempts in U.S. Since 1865
• Roosevelt inaugurated (“the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”); launches New Deal.
• Prohibition repealed. Background: Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
• Glass-Steagall Act bans banks from dealing in stocks and bonds.

Birthday Jim Perry (9-11) in history

• Day 9-11 year 1888: Jack the Ripper killed his last victim, Mary Jane Kelly.
• Day 9-11 year 1938: Nazis burned and looted temples and Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what became known as Kristallnacht (Crystal Night—referring to broken glass on streets).
• Day 9-11 year 1953: Author-poet Dylan Thomas died in New York at age 39.
• Day 9-11 year 1965: A switch at a station near Niagara Falls failed. The Northeast and parts of Canada went dark for more than 13 hours.
• Day 9-11 year 1970: Former French president Charles De Gaulle died at age 79.
• Day 9-11 year 1989: Borders between East and West Germany were opened and the Berlin Wall began to be dismantled the next day.