Hoover Dam

Today in History 09/30 (Hoover Dam)

A view of Boulder Dam on the Arizona - Nevada border, circa 1936 (© Herbert/Archive Photos/Getty Images)(1935) Gargantuan construction dams the Colorado River
A five-year construction program taken on at the height of the Great Depression to harness the mighty Colorado River results in Boulder Dam, a towering hydroelectric dam stretching across Black Canyon between Arizona and Nevada. Congress will later rename the structure the Hoover Dam.
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. Originally known as Boulder Dam from 1933, it was officially renamed Hoover Dam, for President Herbert Hoover, by a joint resolution of Congress in 1947.
Website: www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam
Address: #, Boulder City, NV 89109
Phone: (702) 494-2517
Opened: 1936
Height: 726 feet (Architectural)
Impounds: Colorado River

The Hoover Dam from the air. Colorado river and Lake Mead. Significant water level decline is indicated by the white high water line
The Hoover Dam from the air. Colorado river and Lake Mead. Significant water level decline is indicated by the white high water line
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(1935) Gargantuan construction of Hoover dams the Colorado River.
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German-speaking schoolchildren welcome Adolf Hitler in the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, in 1938 (© Central Press/Getty Images)(1938) Hitler's Germany gains Czech borderlands
Adolph Hitler wants Czechoslovakia's borderlands, and European leaders, still haunted by the ghosts of World War I and intimidated by the ever-growing Nazi war machine, agree to the demand. The Munich Agreement is signed by Britain, Italy, France, and Germany, allowing the Nazis to annex the 'Sudetenland.'
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Munich Agreement
After the summit, the British prime minister Chamberlain returned to the UK where he declared that the Munich agreement meant "peace for our time"

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