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1936 — The Boulder (Hoover) Dam on the Colorado
River in Nevada and Arizona is completed, creating
Lake Mead, America’s largest reservoir with
a capacity of more than 10 trillion gallons. The dam
is the highest in the world.
Also that year:
- Margaret Mitchell, author, publishes her only
book, Gone With the Wind, about the Civil
War.
- Electroluminescence, later used in fluorescent
lighting, is discovered.
- The U.S. Weather Bureau begins showing fronts
and isolines on their weather maps.
- Hitler and Mussolini sign an accord known as
the “Rome-Berlin axis.”
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