March 5. FDR announces a bank holiday during the Depression in 1933.

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March 5, 1933 - During the Great Depression in 1933, President Roosevelt declares a bank holiday, halting all financial activities.• FDR cartoon cover for Judge magazine, the September 1938 issue.

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