Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In 1933, at the age of 53 years old, Jesse was alive when 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). As their actions continued through the next several years, an estimated 600,000 to 1 million Armenians were killed by Turkish soldiers. In 1915, when this person was 35 years old, in April, the Ottoman Empire rounded up, arrested, and deported 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Turkey. Originally using two peach baskets and a soccer ball, he created the game to keep his students active during the long, harsh New England winters. In 1891, Jesse was just 11 years old when James Naismith, at the Springfield Massachusetts YMCA, invented the game of basketball. Many areas were snowbound throughout the whole winter, which was made famous in Laura Ingalls Wilder's book The Long Winter. In 1880, in the year that Jesse C Collier was born, in October, the "Blizzard of 1880" began in North America - considered the most severe winter ever known in the US. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Jesse's lifetime.
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