George Meany, plumber, founding AFL-CIO president, born in City Island, Bronx. In his official biography, George Meany and His Times, he said he had "never walked a picket line in his life."
To begin what proved to become one of the world?s longest construction projects, workers lay the foundation stone of Germany?s Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men.
President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, providing, for the first time ever, guaranteed income for retirees and creating a system of unemployment benefits - 1935