By the Decade

Meanwhile... Many important historical moments happened across the country & the rest of the world during this period.

1918 Armistice Day, World War I Ends – A cease fire is declared at the 11th hour, on the 11th day on the 11th month of 1918 – and later becomes known as Veterans Day in the United States as a day to honor living and deceased veterans. 1918 The Spanish Influenza pandemic kills 50-100 million people worldwide.

1928 Amelia Earhart becomes the 1st woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean (1928) Her plane was later lost over the Pacific while trying to circumnavigate the globe in 1937.

1928 Georgia Tech wins NCAA football championship with a 10-0 record. 1929 Black Tuesday, which triggers the Great Depression occurs on October 29. 1934 Astronomer Edwin Hubble takes a photo that shows “as many galaxies as the Milky Way has stars!” 1936 Jesse Owens wins four gold medals at the Berlin Olympic Games.

1919 Prohibition of alcohol was signed into nationwide law with the 18th amendment and later repealed by the 21st amendment in 1933.

1927 Charles Lindberg completes first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

Pictured: One of the most well-known photographs of the depression era is this portrait of Florence Thompson by photographer, Dorothea Lange, known as the pioneer of documentary photography.

The Great Depression The Great Depression lasted from 1929 until 1939 and unemployment at times was over 25%. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President in 1932 and instituted several New Deal economic programs to help weather the unemployment crisis, such as the Civilian Conservation Corps which at one time employed 500,000. Social Security was enacted in 1935, and in 1937, the Federal minimum wage was set at $0.25 per hour. Scott Hudson was the Club President from 1919 to 1937 and is credited with saving the Club from foreclosure.