TIMELINE: 90 YEARS OF HISTORY 1930s

1931 - John Gerald Barry   1937 - Centenial Museum opens   1935 - Dossie Marion Wigins

Significant events in UTEP history * Significant events in El Paso history ** Significant events in national or world history   1930 * Hilton Hotel (now the Plaza Hotel) opens Downtown * El Paso County population: 132,000 ** Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto   1931 John Gerald Barry becomes College of Mines' first president ** Empire State building completed ** Bank closures panic nation   1932 Poor economic times cause Texas Legislature to consider closing some state institutions including College of Mines ** Amelia Earhart first woman to fly solo across Atlantic   1933 Athletic field constructed and named after popular professor and dean John W. "Cap" Kidd ** Prohibition ends in United States ** Drought turns Great Plains into a Dust Bowl   1934 * Asarco workers place iron cross on what will become Mount Cristo Rey ** Texas lawmen kill outlaws Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker   1935 First Sun Bowl Game played at El Paso High School Dossie Marion Wiggins named College of Mines president ** Social Security Act signed into law ** Works Progress Administration established, helps build part of campus.   1936 * First Sun Carnival parade ** Spanish Civil War begins ** Hoover Dam completed   1937 Centennial Museum opens Miners' first-ever bowl game; football team loses 34-6 to Hardin-Simmons in the Sun Bowl ** Amelia Earhart vanishes ** Hindenburg airship explodes   1938 ** House Un-American Activities Committee established ** Action Comics introduces Superman ** Orson Welles broadcasts "War of the Worlds"   1939 Enrollment over 1,000 ** First transatlantic airplane passenger service launched ** World War II begins