TV actress Grace Lee Whitney

Events in 1930 and 1-4

Events in US in the birth year of Grace Lee Whitney

• 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 Grace Lee Whitney (1-4) in history

• Day 1-4 year 1789: Mr Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania was elected the first Speaker of the House of Representatives.
• Day 1-4 year 1933: The Nazi persecution of Jews began in Germany with a boycott of Jewish businesses.
• Day 1-4 year 1945: American forces landed on Okinawa during World War II.
• Day 1-4 year 1960: The first U.S. weather satellite, TIROS-1, was launched from Cape Canaveral.
• Day 1-4 year 1970: President Nixon signed a bill into law banning cigarette ads from radio and television.
• Day 1-4 year 1976: Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer.
• Day 1-4 year 1979: Ayatollah Khomeini proclaimed the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
• Day 1-4 year 2001: Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic arrested on corruption charges.
• Day 1-4 year 2003: Pvt. Jessica Lynch was rescued by U.S. commandos in a raid on an Iraqi hospital.
• Day 1-4 year 2004: President Bush signed the "Laci Peterson" bill making it a separate federal crime to harm a fetus during an attack on the mother.
• Day 1-4 year 2009: Sweden becomes the fifth European country to legalize same-sex marriage. The other countries with the same rights are The Netherlands, Norway, Belgium and Spain.