In 1931, Marcelino was 20 years old when on May 1st, the Empire State Building opened in New York City. Roosevelt winning the 1933 election in a landslide. This lead to one term and the election of Democrat Franklin D. None of his economic policies were able to make a dent in the Depression. Early in his presidency, the October stock market crash - "Black Tuesday" - occurred, which lead to the Great Depression. In 1929, by the time he was 18 years old, on March 4th, Herbert Hoover became the 31st President of the United States. Due to the disaster, legislation was passed to protect sweatshop workers. Doors to stairwells and exits had been locked in order to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks and to prevent theft, so they couldn't escape by normal means when the fire broke out. The garment factory was on the 8th, 9th, and 10th floors of a building in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. 146 workers (123 women and 23 men, many of them recent Jewish and Italian immigrants) died from the fire or by jumping to escape the fire and smoke. In 1911, in the year that Marcelino B Ibus was born, the Triangle Shirtwaist fire occurred, one of the deadliest industrial disasters in U.S. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Marcelino's lifetime.
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