Major Events of The Great Depression

• 1935: Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago is awarded the very first Heisman Trophy
• 1935: January 19, Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.
• 1934: July 22, John Dillinger was shot by the FBI in the alley next to the Biograph Theater.
• 1933: March 6, Mayor Anton Cermak was killed while riding in a car with President-elect Roosevelt. The assassin was thought to have been aiming for Roosevelt.
• 1933-34: Century of Progress World's Fair.
• 1930: May 30, Shedd Aquarium opens.
• 1930: Adler Planetarium opened, through a gift from local merchant Max Adler. It was the first planetarium in the Western Hemisphere.