In 1955, he was 22 years old when on September 30th, movie star James Dean, 24, died in a car accident. It took 20 months of fighting for the Allies to reach the northern borders of Italy. After the Armistice was made public on September 8th, Germany attacked and occupied Italy. Under the terms of the Armistice, Italy surrendered to the Allied Powers. In 1943, he was just 10 years old when on September 3rd, the Armistice of Cassibile was signed in Sicily.
In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy. Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In 1933, in the year that Joseph H Colavita was born, the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Joseph's lifetime.
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